Why is professional wrestling included with the real sports?

Question

It is not a true athletic competition, only a choreographed dance. I respect the athletic abitlity of the participants, but I can not understand anyone over the age of 13 watching other than to laugh at the antics and ridiculous characters. Professional wrestling should be included in some sort of show business catagory.

Answer 1

I'm not a fan of wrestling.........but the jumps and falls are real. They do get injuries, but the grudges, storylines, characters and acting is fake. Have some respect for it. It's a form of sport called sports entertainment.

Answer 2

Well it shouldn't be included with the real sports that's for sure. But what I don't understand is why so many people have this beef with wrestling. I mean it's just a show for crying out loud. Shows that I don't like, i don't pay attention to. I can't understand the popularity of Desperate Housewives, but I'm not over in the entertainment section acting like a complete fool and asking ridiculous questions. Get a grip people.

Answer 3

Becasue half the stuff is real, you can HEAR it, SEE it, for instance how can you fake powerslamming a guy, or fake punches when in a few seconds you'll see a red mark where the guy punched the other guy. Your just another person with a grude on a show you've never seen, im tired of idiots like yourself coming to a section where you don't belong and bitching about it, watch it, and if you don't like it don't say anthing. Becasue its becasue of people like you its such a low form of a sport. If ALL the things they did were real, they would be out in 2 or 4 weeks tops, so I hope that answers your question without making you mad. Right, and why do people always criticize wrestling?! Its a sport like any other!

Answer 4

Ha. That's funny you say that, because they don't call it professional wrestling anymore-it's called sports entertainment now. It's a blend of the two genres mixing athletic moves with storytelling. At it's best it draws you in like a real sports competition would. At it's worst it makes soap operas look good. I guess it needs it's own category.

Answer 5

They go through more pain than any other sport and most companies are much too graphic for kids to watch like Combat Zone Wrestling, Big Japan Pro Wrestling, Wrestling's International New Generation I mean companies that make ECW look like sissy girls.

Answer 6

While wrestling maybe scripted, there are people who proform that are pure athletes. If you take for example people like Shelton Benjamin, Elix Skpper, Super Crazy, Chrispher Daniels, and CM Punk, there is ability to move around the rign with prefect timing.

Yes, it is not real, but it takes skill to do what they do.

Answer 7

Hmm, taking a quick look down the list of other endeavors that are included in the "sports" category....

--Auto Racing. Why? The drivers aren't athletes so much as they are required to drive the vehicle...the mechanics, engineers and pit crew that *keep the vehicle running* matter as much if not more than the driver him or her self.

--Fantasy Sports. Read that phrase again. People get their own category for stat-juggling and roleplay, and it's under "Sports". Huh?

--Boxing gets its own category. Which is all well and good for most of the world, but in Japan and some other Pacific Rim nations, people are left scratching their heads and wondering "Why?" because over there some boxing matches *are* as rigged as anything you can imagine in "Pro Wrasslin' ".

--Martial Arts gets its own category....which is fine on the surface, but it lumps the UFC-heads in there with the Wushu-KungFu acrobatics with the WTF Tae Kwon Do standing footsie freaks.....much to everyone's dismay.

--Then we have Olympic Sports in general, which is rather redundant in light of the fact that we have separate categories for everything *IN* the Olympic games, from Fencing and Skiing on down. Again, why?

One moment, I am sure I can find more examples for you....

--Ah, here we go! Cricket is its own category, separate from Baseball....why? We all know the history, that one sport is derived from the other. What, would folks in the UK be offended if Cricket were a sub-category under Baseball? Or would Americans be offended if the reverse were true to reflect that historically, Baseball was in fact derived from Cricket?

--"Snooker & Pool" has its own category. Never mind that there is a more techincal name for it all--Billiards, hello? Point is, how can you include Billiards in its own category and exclude *other* tabled sports like Table Tennis? Huh?

--Speaking of which, we have four main Categories for "Football" in all its culturally varied forms. Never mind that there is hardly *any* difference between Canadian and American styled football (come on, *arena* football is more different from the American/NFL styled counterpart than the Canadian stuff is). Not to mention, it's **2007** already and the sub-category for the 2006 World Cup is still getting Questions? Huh?

--Okay, so we have categories for Handball and Tennis....but why not for other racket sports? Does Racquetball not count? Or Squash? Or Jai Alai? We can do this for "football" even though the world cannot make up its mind *what* "football" means exactly, but the racket sports get no props.

--What is the deal with this "Outdoor Sports" catchall category? Did Yahoo run out of memory or something when it came time to address things like Mountain Climbing, Gymnastics, Inline Skating or Ballroom Dancing? Yes, Ballroom Dancing was considered an Olympic *Sport* once! Never mind that it isn't *even done* outdoors! *lol* =))

Surely you get the point. Please tell me you get the point. Yahoo set their Categories up primarily to *please* casual users, not the die-hard fans and obsessives. Meaning you get a *lot* of decisions there that are there because ordinary people want them there (or because Yahoo Inc. thinks it expedient to put them there), and screw what the jocks think.

Besides. Who is going to argue that Figure Skating, or Ballroom Dancing, or Wushu Forms competitions, are *purely competitive* when in fact they are judged mainly on the basis of artistic merit and *demonstrated* athletic ability according to vague and somewhat arbitrary "degrees of difficulty"? Doesn't that bring things dangerously close to "sports entertainment" when the judges get corrupt and vote *politically* for their compatriots versus who might be the better athlete?

In short. The wrestling fans aren't the only problem, but....we are the only ones who attract *every damn lousy troll* on the planet, aren't we?

I think an invasion is in order. I think Fantasy Sports is *long* overdue for some Trolling....or maybe Cricket.....or maybe "Snooker & Pool". ^_^

Because I dunno about you, but I get *tired* of the trolls all getting in *OUR* faces, alone, and pissing and moaning about how "That *sky*, you know it's BLUE, right?"

Know what I mean? ;)

Answer 8

Even though it's staged, it take tremendoes athletic ability to do those moves and not get injured. Besides, what are they supposed to do, put it in a special category with all these other FAKE SPORTS?

Answer 9

wwe is scripted but it is not fake. the falls and the injuries are real. wrestling is called SPORTS entertainment, so it should be included in the sports section.

Answer 10

mik22220 has got a point fake or not, i doubt you would be able to do those sun-set flips and what-not, WWE is indeed fake but they ARE REAL athletes, and WWE is a sport weather it's fake or not.