Any other pro wrestling fans who have noticed the parallels with the GOP convention?

[Recursion]

The storytelling here is really like a Wrestlemania. Even Cruz's heel-turn and vanquishing last night could have been straight out of WWE.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. I have no idea what you're talking about.

[Thinkingabout]

2. Thought about wrestling myself, they lie so damn much I can't believe anything they say.

[OriginalGeek]

3. Used to watch with my daughter way back when

Mick Foley and the Rock were regulars.


And then recently we were channel surfing and discovered Lucha Underground and fell in love with wrestling again. There's even a few characters Ben Carson would claim are in league with Satan.

edit~ meant to reply to OP but too lazy to move it.

[Different Drummer]

4. Haven't watched much pro wrestling since

the Vince McMahon World Domination Tour started years ago and started running the competitors off the road.

[Initech]

5. Only thing missing is the steel cage.

I would seriously pay any amount of money to see a Donald Trump and Ted Cruz "Rage In The Cage" brawl.

[underpants]

6. Yes. His entrance Monday mimicked The Undertaker. Last night was a staple trick

his entrance while Cruz was on stage was the same as when one wrestler is jawing about his rival and suddenly the rival appears from backstage. The announcers go apesh|t and the crowd follows.

You could also make the case that his wife and daughter are playing the role of the arm candy wrestling hotties. His sons are the manager/barkers.

As noted above he did appear in a Wrestlemania and is good friends with Vince. I've said for months that he is doing an insult comic/ wrestling schtick.

On edit - the smokey light show entrance comparison was noted by many across the Internet.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. It has been commented on

See the link at http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8034455 - https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/07/21/it-turned-into-a-ballroom-blitz/

[AngryAmish]

8. Politics is exactly like professional wrestling

Except wrestling fans know it is fake and in wrestling the participants have a sense of personal dignity.

[romanic]

9. Well I didn't see any hot guys in leotards and trunks

so no there's no parallels. lol

[hueymahl]

10. I was thinking exactly the same thing

It's a scripted drama with willfully stupid/blind audience.

I would not be surprised if the whole Cruz thing was not pre-planned. In fact, would be willing to take odds on it.

[Recursion]

12. Same here. It was too close to the wrestling script

That can't be coincidence

[LWolf]

11. I'm not a fan.

I've always thought pro wrestling was, frankly, theater for the stupid.

But I definitely see the parallels.

[LuvNewcastle]

13. I'm not a fan, either, but I've seen enough

of those bouts to see similarities. Their primary target audience is the 'wrasslin' and tractor pull crowd, anyway, so it makes sense for them to create that sort of melodramatic hogwash.