The Rude Pundit - Note to Glenn Beck: Don't Open Yourself Up to a Full Nelson from the WWE

[johnlucas]

23. Wrestling's much more REAL than people think

The proper terms would be Nerfed, Choreographed, & Predetermined.
But each & every one of those moves you see those wrestlers do can severely injure or even kill you!

When Dr. D David Schultz, a 6' 6" 250+ pound man, does a simple slap, his fellow 200+ pound wrestler can take the impact.
Comparatively scrawny John Stossel fell down like a house of cards when Dr. D slapped him.
On screen the motion Dr. D put out on Stossel was exactly the same as he would do to a wrestler on TV.

When you hear Dr. D say "That's an open hand slap" he's making reference to what is seen as the SIMPLEST move in a wrestling show.
He shows just how devastating a simple 'open hand slap' can be to someone not used to this 'tough business' as he continually said.
The way Stossel fell to the floor proves what Dr. D's point about that business being tough when he says "That's why you're not in it".

The moves are nerfed to reduce chance of injury.
They're choreographed for that same purpose & also to put on a better performance.
The matches are predetermined because that makes for more interesting fights.

True fighting is ugly-looking, short-lived, & is unpresentable much less marketable.
Think of a schoolyard fight—all clumsy-looking & crude.

All parts of the fight game put rules in to make the fights more watchable & thus more marketable.
That goes for Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts, & Wrestling.
Notice how boring boxing can be when the boxers are all locked up on each other in that hugging mess?
One day the inevitable scandal on how the fix is in on MMA will come out & then everybody will understand why wrestling is "fake".
All sports are fixed somewhere.

You think you're REALLY seeing true human competition?
All humans are not created physically equal or even comparative.
It gets boring if one guy wins all the time.
All sports must tell a story whether that story is about the dynasty or the underdog.
People watch sports for the combination of athletics & the story behind the athletics.

Pro wrestling is just more honest with it than the others.
That's what makes them so good. They always straddle the line between Fantasy & Reality.
John Lucas