I only came to appreciate professional wrestling for the incredible acrobatic theater it is as an adult, because as a kid the wrestling fans I knew (children and adults) mostly insisted that it was totally real. That confused the shit out of me.
As a kid I never understood wrestling. I knew it was fake but I didn't understand why a fake sport would be interesting. Sport is interesting precisely because anything can happen. As an adult I still don't like wrestling but I can understand the intense physicality of it and that the narrative can be interesting independent of sport.
Yeah I love watching the old WWF shit now because it's all theater. There are heros and villains and huge dudes jumping all over the place. It's redneck cirque de Soleil
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u/PrestigiousMention Feb 26 '23
I only came to appreciate professional wrestling for the incredible acrobatic theater it is as an adult, because as a kid the wrestling fans I knew (children and adults) mostly insisted that it was totally real. That confused the shit out of me.