jason,I ahve identified the diseased area of your thinking. You still look at wrestling as a "fake sport". When something has never claimed to be legitimate, how can you call it fake?

Professional Wrestling is not a "sport" persay, although it does have aspects of sport in it. Pro wrestling is performance art. It is a Ballet with Balls.

Think of it this way. With your thinking, you would never watch ER because the ER patients aren't really hurt. That doesn't make any sense.

As for wrestlers not tryin gto hurt each other... well DUH. WRESTLING ISN'T A SPORT. When Shakespearean actors have a sword fight, they aren't actually trying to kill each other are they?

Wrestlers protect one another in the ring (except for RVD:D ). They do that mainly because they realize that wrestling is their liveliehood (sp?). If they were always trying to actually hurt one another,there wouldn't be many wrestlers out there. But the fact is that no matter how well you protect one another, injuries are going to happen and they will happen often. Yes, they know how to fall, but that AIN'T a trampoline they're fallin' on. Its a very stiff ring with little give. The WWF ring is actually notorious for being one of the hardest. We have lost far to many wrestlers to pain killer addiction because of the constant pain and injury that they work with. HHH tore one of his quad muscles COMPLETELY in a live match, yet he still worked for 5 more minutes and was actually put in a boston crab AFTER the tear. Lets see ANY other pro athelete do that.

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I can agree with that, although I doubt the ring floor is hard like you say. Thanks for not calling me a cock head or something like some other people would. But awhile back we had a whole topic about wrestling being a sport or not, and some people still dont admit its not a sport, you have enough sense to know that its not a sport, and thats good.

And how the hell would you know how hard the floor is Jason1? You doubt it, but that's like me saying I doubt the baseball diamond is as big as MLB says when I'm not a fan and have no clue. You also doubted wrestlers got hurt...

Jason, the right floor is very hard. True, it does give, but it is very hard. Do you see the wrestlers bouncing up and down in the ring? Does it wobble a lot when they run? No.

I'm not saying its made of concrete by any means, but it is still very hard. Many older wrestlers have to get vertebrae fused in their necks from getting cronic whiplash from taking bumps. Just ask Arn Anderson.