The Completely Pointless Thread

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Professional wrestling is a sport, not a competitive sport like boxing but a sport never the less.

Is the outcome of bouts prearranged? well duh! of course they are, are their moves in the ring planned?, to a point, there will be one or two "high spot" moves prearranged along with the outcome but most of what goes on in the ring is spontaneously "called" by the participants, like freeform jazz musicians riffing off each other.

Professional wrestling is also very dangerous, in the late 80's-early 90's Lloyds of London gave loads of pro wrestlers lucrative insurance policies thinking to themselves "It's all fake we won't get many claims!" but it turned out the joke was on them. Pro wrestling can be extremely dangerous if moves are not performed correctly, one wrong piledriver and you could be spending the rest of your life eating your meals with a straw. As dozens of claims came in from pro wrestlers for broken bones, concussions, head injuries, spinal injuries, paralysis etc, Lloyds realised they had made a big mistake underestimating professional wrestling.

I've been in a wrestling ring, when you get picked up and slammed on your back correctly it still hurts, the ring is not a trampoline, when you get slapped across the chest it hurts, when you get hit on the head with a metal chair, you get hit on the head with a metal chair, there are no "fake" metal chairs. When you bleed, you bleed for real even if the wound is self inflicted the blood is real.

Check out Mickey Rourke in the film "The Wrestler" to see what the long term physical and emotional effects of a career in pro-wrestling can have on your body and mind. Want to enjoy family life?, don't become a pro wrestler because you are on the road nearly every single day, week after week, month after month, year after year, it never ends.

It wasn't intended to be a "serious" post. I thought the....when it doesn't have two semi-naked women thrashing around in mud or jello. might have indicated that?

My uncle James (Jimmy) was a wrestling fanatic, he used to take me to the Kelvin Arena in the early to mid 60's to watch the fights. I've seen all the greats of that era....probably around the time it was starting to be televised.