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

By: carl

carl — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:40:10 +0000

I don’t know why people keep saying wrestling is fake.i mean,EVERYONE know that.But they don’t care,still enjoy watching it.

WWE is not trying to hide it either.That why vince name it world wrestling ENTERTAINMENT.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:41:11 +0000

Good article but to try to compare the fakeness of wrestling to the UFC is not fair. Everything about wrestling is “fake”/fixed. Every interaction scripted. Obviously there are some contrived things in the UFC, but to suggest that the fights are fake? Your article lost a lot of credibility there. I am surprised that wrestling is still as big as it is with the emergence of the UFC. Watch a UFC fight, then watch a wrestling “match”, and the wrestling action looks ridiculous. Let me lie here while you bounce off the ropes and then drop a leg on me.

Saying you are going to drop someone through a table in real life shows how fake it is. If it was real, it would not be a common occurrence in wrestling.

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.