Why is wrestling fake?

Question

Lots of ppl tell me it is fake. Then i go with them and tell them i no it is fake. But i dont no how it is so fake. Like do they fakes the moves or decide already about who is gonna win.

Answer 1

Good question. No it's not. Although it's scripted . The moves and maneuvers are real. Owen hart died in the ring mankind (mick foley) suffer injuries from undertaker, you can't call that fake? can you?. It's true it's true.

Answer 2

The answer to your question would really take more time than you could imagine. I have wrestled professionally. In the old days, I would have made a lot of people angry with what I'm about to tell you. Years ago in what we call "the kayfabe days", the business was protected and presented as a "competive contest" just like football, baseball, hockey, etc. But, it wasn't then and it isn't now. We still don't care for the word fake, we would prefer the term, "worked"..Means basically the same thing, but "fake" just doesn't seem to respect the sacrifices, work, and pain that goes into putting together a good match. In the last year, I've have a severe ankle fracture, a broken finger, and a dislocated shoulder, not to mention of lot of other minor things that come with being a pro wrestler. If this is "fake", let me tell you FAKE HURTS, sometimes alot. Yes, the finish is predetermined and sometimes the match is totally scripted, but not always and almost never in the old days. The beginning and the end usually were at one time, but most of the action in the ring was called during the match. There is a lot of room for improvisation and interaction with the fans that way. Pro wrestling has a long and illustrious history. What you see today basically goes back to late 19th century carnival wrestling..a barnstorming type of show where the carny wrestler came into town and challenged "all comers". Over the years this has evolved into what you see today. It is a form of entertainment (although a dubious one to many), it is a show. That doesn't mean that you should feel free to challenge someone in the business. Most of us do know how to handle ourselves legitimately. One more thing, if you are a young person without any formal training (I know it's a cliche) please don't attempt to do these moves..they are dangerous and can result in serious injuries if you don't know what you are doing. Also remember that this is a show, there are a lot of things you shouldn't emulate. Things are done in a certain manner in the wrestling ring, but please realize that in real life.....violence is not the answer.

Answer 3

The injuries can be real sometimes, but they are usually faked too. But to my understanding they've already decided who wins and how they win. The moves are faked as well, because if the majority of them were done for real you'd have deaths all over the place. Can you imagine what a real piledriver could do to someone, having their head slammed into the ground like that straight up (which could cause a concussion or more likely a broken neck). The ring floor also has a trampoline-like machine under it to lessen the damage done from moves like a superplex off the top rope and the like.

Answer 4

Wrestling is a very well scripted very well rehearsed stunt show. I work the North charleston Coliseum in South Carolina and have had the joy of watching wrestling in many ways for many years. I have watched a ring be put together from start to finish.
Yes there is a spring it does not do much to lessen the impact of these guys hitting the mat considering the plywood above the spring and under the canvas is only 2 3/4 quaters thick.
These guys train to fall and rehearse their moves often before the match starts. I watched Rey Mysterio and another Luchador wrestler practice their match back stage on a seperate ring for a hour before they went out. They are athletes but very good stuntman. I saw Mick Foley years ago when he use to tour Japan as Cactus Jack. He went through barb wire and make shift pipe bombs. They do bleed the injuries at time are real. Owen Hart died during a stunt. Steve Austin did indeed suffer the equvialent of a broken neck as well as Chris Benoit, and Sabu. These men look out for each other but injuries happens. The chairs are real often you will see them put up a hand in defense to ward off a chair shot but its still metal it still hurts. Yes, its scripted but guess what people go to Disney or MGM studios and watch stunts performed all day without complaint.
Its just entertainment, who cares if it is fake or not if you are having fun watching it?

Answer 5

Wrestling is neither real nor fake. It is a scripted pyshical show that comes with it's rough times and injuries.

If is were "real" people would actually get hurt when someone swings a chair at them. A lot of what they do seems like it is very unsafe and very hurtful, but it is all in a controled environment. I actually repect the acting abilities of some of the people in wrestling. It is enjoyable because of how well they act.

What sucks is when wrestling isn't fake and someone gets hurt. A prime example is when Owen Hart fell 65 feet to his death when his propel line snapped. If wrestling was "real" something like this would happen more often and if wrestling was "fake" something like this would never have happened.

Answer 6

Wrestling is 'faked' because true wrestling is pretty boring to watch. Check it out in the next Olympics. True wrestlers are nothing like the muscle bound long dyed hair pansies you see on WWWF. They are proper athletes who compete according to correct rules. These do not include all the histrionics and razzamatazz you see on TV. The rules are quite simple. There are an agreed number of rounds of 3 minutes each. To win a competitor needs to get three falls or a submission. A fall is achieved by holding the opponent's shoulders on the floor for 10 seconds. A submission is when the opponent cannot escape the hold due to pain. Unlike TV wrestling the competitors are not allowed to jump off the ropes, pull hair, thump each other or commit foul moves and certainly don't have chance to wave and shout at the crowd. Real wrestling needs full concentration. Generally the competitors circle each other until one sees an opportunity to attack and then does. Much of the rest is just the two of them grappling until the hold or submission is achieved.

Now to TV wrestling. This is purely designed to appeal to the common masses by creating a 'good guy' and a 'bad guy' and inciting the crowd to love one and hate the other. The match takes place to accompaniments of cheering and booing until the result. Most of these matches are fixed so as to give maximum crowd involvement. A friend of mine used to be a wrestler and he told me how, prior to the match, they would sit in the dressing room rehearsing what would happen in each round, who would win, etc.

Personally I don't watch it for two reasons. Real wrestling is boring and TV wrestling is faked and an insult to the intelligence.

Answer 7

I didn't want to believe it as a kid. As an adult, there's not way that I could watch it and think for a moment, that any of it's real.

The likelihood that a pile-driver would break someone's neck, Is astronomical. It's like doing a swan dive int an empty pool with an extra three-hundred pounds weighing you down. If the neck miraculously doesn't break, then that means all the force is being absorbed by the skull, most assuredly causing massive brain damage.

A great deal many 'signature moves' seemed to be geared towards neck-snapping. I can't watch it and believe for a second that they do maneuvers like this without doing something to absorb much of the impact themselves.

There doesn't seem to be many true penalties in modern pro wrestling. They punch and kick each other, but they move around slowly, and they don't seem to actually connect their blows at all most of the time, and when they aren't kicking and punching at air/the ring itself, they don't really seem to be doing anything but retracting their fists rapidly, rather than putting the force into the forward swing.

Aside from that, the ''competitor's' actions seem entirely illogical. They hesitate and give their opponent time to 'recover' from their attack. In a real fight, if someone is knocked to the ground and is trying to get back up, then letting them do just that, is stupid.

Answer 8

Yeah, they practice everything before a match actually takes place. I don't understand why people are so drawn to it. I do understand why people are drawn to UFC, Ultimate Fighting Championship, because that is real fighting and sometimes lots of blood and sometimes broken bones and swollen faces, etc. But, sometimes in wrestling, they do purposely do stuff that gets guys hurt or so it looks. Sometimes too the guys accidentally really screw up somebody else's face or something. But then again, these guys are all pretty much bodybuilders. They have a lot of mass to keep themselves from getting injured. The punching in the face is the most obvious fake move. Sometimes you can see the guy's hand not even hit the other guy's head and he will flip his head back and then again sometimes you will hear a slap. But, a slap is better than a punch when it comes to reality.

Answer 9

Wrestling is fake in the way where all moves are predetermined, they work off a script written beforehand, the "wrestlers" cut themselves before a match where "juice" (bloodshed) is needed and they prompt each other inside the ring before specific moves are to be done.

All the "athletic" moves are faked too. They are supposed to fall a certain way, assist by jumping or tiptoeing when getting lifted by the "opponent", fake punches and when "splashing" onto a wrestler on the grown, they contact the mat with their hands/arms/legs and feet. Their midsections do not connect solidly due to risk of broken ribs.

Everything is staged, and people that think otherwise are not educated.

Answer 10

Some of it is fake, some of it is not, you can kind-of tell. But fake wrestling is with the really big moves that you only see from one angle so it looks real, if they actually did this stuff to each other, they would be in a full body cast at the end of the match.

Answer 11

It depends which wrestling you are talking about.

WWE wrestling is fake in a way, wrestlers are taught different moves and are trained to execute them in a way that it does not permanetly damage their opponet, although injuries are real because they can not all be prevented. Normally they decide a winner before hand and some moves are planned, but most of it is acting and reacting to your opponents move. Also if it were real it would be breaking the law, it is against the law to hit someone on purpose, it is called domestic violence.

Real wrestling like at the olymics is totally real, but their are more strict rules and not as exciting as the explosiveness of the WWE wrestling.