Comments on: Column: Wrestling Is Fake, But So Is Everything Else

By: Hank

Hank — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:11:36 +0000

I love people who after i tell them i watch wrestling say ” YOU DO KNOW ITS FAKE?” To which i respond “Fake you find me a fake table and ill fake slam u through it

By: Scarlett Harris

Scarlett Harris — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:41:32 +0000

Here, here! I agree wholeheartedly with the entire article, but you forgot a category: magazines/books (in particular autobiographies). While I love magazines and at one point wanted to work in the industry, you have to take most of what is published in the gossip magazines with a grain of salt. Even some respected magazines come into question over their legitimacy, such as Vanity Fair with the Miley Cyrus nude shots and Lindsay Lohan revoking what she said about having an eating disorder in the magazine in 2006. Whether the magazine or the celeb was telling the truth, there was a level of fakeness there no matter what. As for books, need I say more than the name “James Frey”?

By: jawad

jawad — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:15:13 +0000

awesome keelan

the best column i have ever red and any one who mock wwe i will throw this column on his face and after he will read it i will ask him “whats your opinion now”

By: Keelan Balderson

Keelan Balderson — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:03:26 +0000

Ha ha. Eastenders. Mae Young would whoop Dot Cotton’s ass!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:20:46 +0000

Brilliant article,i even sent this around to some of my work colleges who mock wrestling. I made myself laugh yesterday, i was speaking about wrestling and someone said well its fake why do you watch it?

My reply was “You watch Eastenders? Thats fake?”

By: James Wright

James Wright — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:16:21 +0000

I always go to action movies with this argument. Lots of people don’t even know that WWE admits it’s fake. They say “You know it’s fake, they should say it so people don’t try it at home.” And I always reply that they do but it’s not like they are going to say it at the beginning of every match or segment. It’s like someone popping up in an action movie and going; “You know this is a stunt right, that’s a different person, that wasn’t a real kick, etc…” It’s obvious that it isn’t real but you don’t need someone shouting about it every five seconds because it’s all about suspension of disbelief.
As you said at the beginning, most people condemn wrestling out of ignorace, that’s why The Wrestler is such a great movie, because even if it paints the wrestling business in a sort of negative light it educates people about some of the backstage stuff that makes wrestling, in my opinion, the best form of entertainment out there.

By: AIC

AIC — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:16:12 +0000

That’s supposed to be “SAYING, ‘The sun’s not yellow it’s chicken’”

By: AIC

AIC — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:14:32 +0000

P.S.

“The Commander-in-Chief answers him while chasing a fly
Saying, ‘Death to all those who would whimper and cry’
And dropping a bar bell he points to the sky
Saving, ‘The sun’s not yellow it’s chicken’”
-Bob Dylan, “Tombstone Blues”

Dylan saw “everything being fixed” mass misdirection coming forty years ago.

By: Casey Hill

Casey Hill — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:55:16 +0000

This Is What Say All The Time!!!It’s Not Fake Its Scriped,cuz the still go out thier and get thrown around.even though they don;t get hit or land as hard as you think they still feel it when it happens and still get hurt doing so the ungratfull critis and fans have something to watch besides reality idol ect…

By: AIC

AIC — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:49:36 +0000

Excellent article!

The old wrestling adage, “If it’s on TV, it’s a work” totally applies to everything else on the tube, as well.

The news media is guilty of the sin of omission. Not so much what they show you but what they DON’T show you…and what they show you instead. Do you honestly believe you see a report on the evening news about Brad Pitt’s divorce because there is nothing else to talk about?

Television does NOT exist to inform. It’s there to generate advertising dollars. At least professional wrestling is honest about it and doesn’t pretend to be something it is not. Even during the Kayfabe era, professional wrestling never claimed to keep you informed or to make the world a better place (although Vince would probably premature ejaculate at the mere suggestion that people would think of WWE as such, lol).

Take it all with a grain of salt, folks, because professional wrestling will NEVER be respected and the people who bag on it as being “fake” will never stop. And really: Who Cares??? I, for one, don’t need the acceptance or opinions of others to validate what I enjoy.

Neither do you.