How fake is wrestling?
a lot of people have a hard time accepting that just because the storylines are scripted, that doesn’t mean everything about professional wrestling is fake. The only false things are the storylines are known in advance and the wrestlers do not actually attempt to hurt each other in the ring, they instead work together to create painful looking moves in the safest possible way while still making them look dramatic.. but the blood is real, the risks are real (as they say in the commercials) and many wrestlers spend their careers in constant pain, wrestling through injuries sustained in the ring, and it is terribly disrespectful of people to constantly accuse them of being “fakes”.. nobody complains that their favorite soap operas are “fake” because the characters are fictional and the plot is scripted; yet pro wrestling is the same thing, a soap opera, set in an athletic environment.. but people treat it totally differently and disrespect a bunch of guys (and girls) who put themselves in
