Should Pro Wrestling be called Pro Wrestling?
Afterall an amateur Boxer that takes parts in the Olympics can turn 'Professional'. A Professional Boxer afterall is a Professional Boxer.
However, the term Professional Wrestling means the complete opposite to the likes of amateur Wrestling. Afterall... Pro Wrestling is todays term for a work, pre-determined matches like the WWE.
In fairness and realism, shouldnt Promotions like the WWE be refered to as "Professional Performance" or "Performance Wrestling"?
Shouldn't Professional Wrestling be the term for the 'real' Professional Wrestlers. The same connection to the likes of amateur Boxing and Professional Boxing?
I have my opinions of course.... but what are yours?
It shall be interesting to hear from other people and their opinions!!
2006-10-23 05:36:33 · 19 answers · asked by The Avenger 4 in Sports ➔ Wrestling
Yes WWE is "Pro" because they get paid, that afterall is the different terms between "amateur" and "pro". My point however is that despite the fact that WWE 'get paid', should it refered to as Pro?
Lastly, I know many wrestlers today that refer themselves as "Pro Wrestlers"
2006-10-23 05:45:47 · update #1
I am aware of WWE refering to themselves as 'sports entertainment' and wrestlers as 'superstars'.
However, many wrestlers in the WWE still refer themselves as 'pro wrestler'.
To me. Pro Wrestler means the step up from the amateur circuit but it isnt the case.
At the end of the day, it is just a discussion, and not something to throw back in my face, which was the case to one of the answeree's
2006-10-23 10:42:58 · update #2
One more detail. I am not a biased person, as I can pick many good and bad points in the world of entertainment wrestling. However, I also feel that putting this question on here will of course be answered by 'WWE Fans'. So in essence, many will be biased here and protect the name of Pro Wrestling.
2006-10-23 10:45:43 · update #3
It really hasn't been called Pro Wrestling by one one in the Industry since the late 1990s. It has only been called this by fans and magazine publishers. Turn on Wrestling one daye and listen. they will never use the term Pro Wrestling. They will of course use sports entertainment
2006-10-23 05:40:58 · answer #1 · answered by SuperSoldierGIJOE 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Excellent question. I gave you thumbs up. While it is true, industry insiders do not refer to themselves as "professional" wrestlers, it is a form of gladiatorial entertainment disguised as wrestling.
I don't think though that pro wrestling can be thought of as a natural progression from amateur wrestling. Look at the back grounds of the current wrestlers. They are all from body building and other professions. Kurt and Shelton are the only ones who tout their amateur wrestling status. I'm sure there are others but names escape me right now.
They are "professional" because they've gone through the schools, did their time on indy circuits, worked up the ranks to make the "big time" with the WWE. Professional in that they are professional amateur wrestlers? I think a pure mat wrestler on the top of his game would pin anyone but Chris Benoit currently in the WWE.
Chris is probably the only pure professional wrestler in the industry now. He's learned from the best, broke his god damn neck, and done his time. That's were the pro comes in.
2006-10-23 06:44:34 · answer #2 · answered by jennyrascal 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Even though its outcome is predetermined, the WWE is still professional in that its wrestlers are paid. It might not be the type of pure wrestling we see at the Olympics, but it's wrestling nonetheless. I'm not a fan, but I have no problem with the name.
I think it would be a bigger issue if there was a competing professional wrestling circuit made up of those Olympic and amateur champions, but it's not like the WWE is stealing the spotlight from such a group.
It's tough to compare it to boxing, given that there's not an "entertainment" form of boxing to compete in a similar manner as the WWE does with wrestling. I know there are other fighting organizations like the UFC or K-1 fighting, but they don't bill themselves as boxing organizations.
2006-10-23 05:41:24 · answer #3 · answered by Craig S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Pro wrestling is a termthat has been used since the Keyfabe days where the business was strongly defended and sold as a legit sport. Whilst the industry has opened up since Vince Mcmahon was forced to expose the business in his infamous steroids trial, it is nice to keep some of the old things like the name.
To keep the fans (99% of whom know its a work,) entertained, there has to be a suspension of belief, if this is streatched too far by changng the name to what you have suggested than that belief has been streached too far and the buble bursts in the same was as it would if rey mysterio gorilla pressed the big show
2006-10-23 06:42:17 · answer #4 · answered by enigma_variation 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sports Entertainment.
2006-10-26 04:35:12 · answer #5 · answered by brogdenuk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its all one big act in the main by very good gymnasts, and wrestling has always been that way, Some of those Guys perform every day of the week so they do have to get over those "terrible "beatings quickly and often. They are really very good FIT actors and do give value for money.
2006-10-24 14:12:48 · answer #6 · answered by Whistler R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the term they use now, WWE that is, is 'Sports Entertainment'. The wrestlers are called superstars now instead of pro wrestlers.
2006-10-23 10:25:13 · answer #7 · answered by WrestleJunkie™ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Definately NOT a sport
its more like stunt work, like the fights you see in films (movies)
Lee Majors would make a good host for Wrestling shows
(The Unknown Stuntman)
2006-10-23 05:43:05 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Pro' Hams maybe
2006-10-23 05:56:16 · answer #9 · answered by richiesown 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wrestling became entertainent.
2006-10-23 07:29:14 · answer #10 · answered by Bling Bling 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋