Do you know any adults who think professional wrestling is real?

[bluestateguy]

I think it's funny and entertaining as hell, but watching some of the fans on TV (WWE RAW is on right now), I have to say that some of them seem to take it all a bit too seriously.

[Fox Mulder]

1. I don't even know why they call WWE "professional".

If you ask me, the amateurs are the real professionals (if that makes sense).

Other than that, isn't Stephanie McMahon hot? :D

[Doctor_J]

2. No, but then I live in a blue state

I imagine many of the people featured on "Cops" believe it.

[kwassa]

3. I went to a match many years ago and ...

everyone around me behaved like it was absolutely real.

[Blue-Jay]

4. I don't even know any kids who think that anymore.

Although, I thought it was "real" until I was about 6 or 7 years old. That was way back when they made the attempt to guard the Big Secret, however.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

5. The question I have is

has ANY WWF match in the past twenty years ACTUALLY FINISHED??????? I mean without being interrupted by some chair-wielding maniac prancing down the aisle to jump in the ring and start beating someone over the head...

:shrug:

[Shadowen]

8. Yes.

It usually involved Kurt Angle or Chris Benoit and was a beacon of hope for the wrestling fan.

[Fox Mulder]

13. Many.

[sniffa]

6. doink the cLown is very reaL

thank you very much

[Ekirh]

15. I miss Evil Doink . .

I want Evil Doink back :(.

[greblc]

20. BK is f'n scary....

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. It's NOT???!!!???

:cry:

[Telly Savalas]

9. It is too real.

Don't let these guys bullshit you.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

10. Whew!

My whole reality was starting to wobble a little for a minute there!

[youthere]

11. I think it's real...

real stupid that is.

[Beware the Beast Man]

12. I'd say they almost all know.

Live wrestling matches are a strange mix of theater in the round and audience participation. It's like Rocky Horror on steroids.

[ashling]

14. Professional wrestling is REAL

STUPID! :evilgrin:

[trackfan]

16. It is like a soap opera - you know it's not real, but you

still have an emotional involvement as if it is. Same thing with any good work of fiction. I don't watch wrestling, but I can see how people get caught up in the stories. That being said, there are probably a few people who do think its real. I remember one such lady - a mother of another kid when I was in little league - who really believed it was all real. (This was in the 60s with Freddie Blassie, etc.)

[Shine]

17. I don't think I even KNOW any adults who WATCH pro wrestling...

let alone have an opinion about whether it's real or not.

I guess I don't travel in those circles... Not really my thing..

To each their own...... :shrug:

[barb162]

18. I liked it when I was a kid and thought it was real.

Those people are talented, I guess, they take falls and hits for "real." How they aren't breaking their bones when they are throwing each other around, I don't know.

[greblc]

19. The matches are Choreographed but...

the physical punisment is real.

[MrScorpio]

21. Here's what I think:

I don't think that it's real, but I do think that they go off script from time to time.

Not a whole lot though

[Saboburns]

22. Hate to break it to you,

But. Nearly all TeeVee is made up shit.

You don't think John Wayne really killed all them Indians, do you??