Do wrestlers get injured?

Question

I was watchin wrestling tonight and watching them jump around and smack each other. It looks staged, but they still seem to take that steel chair to the head. Also, they are doing some big, crazy athletic moves. Somebody has got to blow a knee or dislocate a shoulder. What is the deal?

Answer 1

Yes

Answer 2

I really dunno if people ask these questions because they really rnt sure or what. But let me tell u from EXPERIENCE and SEEING! I've just started training in Professional Wrestling and YES we can get injured. Knock-on-Wood I havent had an injury but every person who ever trains is apparently ment to have an injury at least once in their life time if not a couple times more. Alot of things r staged and many things r scripted. Chair shots and so forth r all FULL impact but ur taught ways to prepare urself for the hit. Ur shown how to take a hit in a way that wont severly injure u. Plus the person hitting u is shown how to hit u. Sure it does hurt sumtimes but its more of a stun really. Knocks u about abit, but not enough to send u into a concusion or anything unless sumthing goes wrong. U take the risk the day u sign on for training. So in a nut-shell ur answer is YES we can get injured. Sprained ankles, dislocated shoulder, torn muscel ligaments etc etc.

Answer 3

Yes. even when they fall correctly they still get hurt. Those ropes look soft. They are not!
I have been in the ring and it feels like your falling on a metal pole! You get bruises and welts that won't go away for days.
Broken necks and busted knees. Broken bones lacerations.
Concussions and even death.

At a wrestling school in California a kid died when he was teamed against a huge wrestler. They just put him in the ring so the big guy could practice, they didn't care about teaching the kid just making sure their STAR had someone to beat up./
he broke the kid's neck and killed him.

And the mat looks like a trampoline but IT doesn't feel like one. Even tho they bounce up it's like bouncing off sheet metal!

Answer 4

I saw Jerry Blackwell bring a 2X4 to the ring around 1982 to wrestle King Kong Brody, they had one of those old AWA feuds going on from town to town but on this day Blackwell was mad about something and he hit King Kong Brody right in the ribs, I was sitting ringside and the lump on Brody's chest left no doubt he had a broken rib. I have sat ringside for many matches including many Hulk Hogan matches but this was one of the few times I saw a wrestler really hurt another wrestler and I still wonder what spurred Blackwell's attack , one thing for sure King Kong Brody was nuts right up to the time of his stabbing death in the Caribbean islands...

Answer 5

Yes wrestlers do get injured.
Batista and Trish both just came back from injuries, and Benoit and a couple others out on injury right now.
My family has relatives and friends that are/were pro wrestlers and they do get hurt, a couple have even died in the ring even though they don't announce it.

Answer 6

Yes, most definitely wrestlers do get hurt. Even though there looks like a real fight in the ring, both wrestlers know the outcome before the match starts.

Answer 7

Yes if the staging goes wrong, things can go very wrong. Professional wrestlers are skilled. Just more at keeping each other safe while faking the fighting part.

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

yes it may be staged and all that but sometimes wrestlers do get hurt example hhh snapped a ligament on raw a few years back you could see the tendon roll up under the skin

Answer 10

Sure, Mark Henry blew out his knee tonight on live TV.