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AztecWarrior
2004-04-04, 09:35 PM
Yes. I borrowed that title from Maddox (Astrology is Bullshit x3).

I was at grandpa's apartment about 30 minutes ago. We were getting ready to leave, and my brother was channel surfing. The others were off doing something else. I was reading an old Popular Mechanics (the one about the DOT/FAA considering loosening pilot restrictions). Given that we had just watch Arnold Schwarzenegger give birth along with the assistance of Danny DeVito in some really retarded movie (directors: any scene with a male giving birth is FUNNY, not DRAMATIC, don't paint it that way), you can guess that there was absolutely nothing good on. Hence the channel surfing.

My brother stumbles upon WWF wrestling. I've never watched that shit for more than 30 seconds. This lasted about 3 minutes long, and it is the most bullshit fight ever. It didn't pump me up, it made me want to kill the wrestlers with my AK-47.

The TV comes on and two sweaty men wearing what appears to be Speedos are in a homoerotic pose, one on the floor behind the other, sideways.I have no idea who they are, as my knowledge of wrestling personalities is The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Hulk Hogan. They do not appear to be struggling at all, just gasping and grunting, like a really bad homoporn movie.

Black Speedos gets up, holding Pink Speedos (yes, he had pink Speedos on) in a headlock. As will repeat during this presentation, they are not struggling. Pink does not try to escape the headlock, either by flipping, backing into a post, or hitting Black with his elbow. This lasts for about 30 seconds, until Pink puts his two neurons to work and decides to hit Black with his elbow. Black throws Pink forward, then knocks him over.

Black gets up, stands over Pink, and proceeds to do what appears to be a male stripper dance, but minus the stripper because he is already stripped, all he has are those Speedos. He holds his arms above his head and rotates his hips. I draw 4 conclusions from this:

1: His armpits are bare. He shaved them. That is a homosexual act.
2: The homowrestling at the beginning, gasping and grunting, bare armpits, and dance lead me to one conclusion: he's gay.
3: WWF REALLY sucks.
4: I need to shoot my brother in the foot with a high-caliber weapon for putting this on, despite that he hates it too.

People start booing, and Black decides to show off his 'stregnth'. He gets to the corner, squats on the corner post, and intertwines himself in the wires. Pink gets up and proceeds to beat him. I don't know how this is supposed to make you win. In my opinion, Black is an idiot for not fighting back and Pink is a weakling, because he can't really hurt black. No, wait, that's becuase it's FAKE! Yes, children, I have never seen more fake blows than on that show. To cover up some of the excessively bad ones, the camera actually jerked to an angle hiding the blow. Nobody proceeded to get bruised, bleed, or show any other signs of abuse than the recoil of blows. By now, you would have thought that someone would be injured. Nope, it's WWF.

A note on punches. I can only bench 110 and I weigh 190. I have 28% body fat, I.E. I'm not too muscular. I gave someone an uppercut (he looked a lot like martyr, so martyr, if you have a relative named Raul, he is a jackass) and the asshole REELED. He took two steps back and had to move his head at LEAST 70 degrees. This is a full-strenth punch. The bullshit on TV, however, was not so. Turn to your left right now, as if you heard a noise. That was the amount of recoil involved here. Not much torso movement either. If you get punched to the face, you aren't going to stay still.

They exchange positions and Pink does the same. I forget what happens next, but it's not worth it. I think I went back to my magazine or something. I look up, and Pink is fighting Black, both are now in the center. I think Pink uses the wires as a catapult to push himself forward to tackle Black. Black extends his arm and knocks Pink over. An arm extension will NOT stop a muscular male sprinting at you. Pink, to fake this, makes his feet slip and he falls down in the fakest, sorriest excuse for a blow I've seen yet.

The rest isn't even worth going by exactly. One of them flips along with the other, and they magically both get hurt. They fake severe back/neck injuries, then manage to get themselves up, and in a few moments, are fighting full stregnth again. And more shit like that. By the time my brother changed the channel again, they were pretending to be severely injured as they both lied on the floor.

Wrestling is bullshit. Wrestling is bullshit. Wrestling is bullshit.

I have the utmost respect for boxers, martial artists (I myself am a blue belt in Tae Kwon Do), but there is just so much bullshit in this. It doesn't have the atmosphere of a fight at all. Sweaty, shaved, steroid-strong, possibly gay men wrestling in a fight scene with more fiction than Star Trek, The Fast and the Furious, and Driven combined, along with girls dressed in next to nothing announcing the round changes, with a referee in official clothes thrown in to make it look official.

Let's all do the world a favor. Let's say you know someone who likes wrestling. Shoot him in the face. Think about it. It's the law of averages. If 20 out of 100 people were wrestling fans, and all 20 died, we would have a PERFECT 100% RATE!

So please. Don't watch wrestling.

DISCLAIMER: No, Strygun, I don't REALLY want everyone to shoot wrestling fans. I am not responsible for sharp population declines in the following states: West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma.

PS: I am also not offended by REAL wrestlers. Wrestling is a sport. I have the utmost respect for real wrestlers, who wear unisuits, not Speedos, and are athletes. They also recieve MUCH less publicity than 'ball' sports, I.E. football, basketball, soccer. WWF is a bullshit show

SDM
2004-04-04, 09:39 PM
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Agreed

JetRaiden
2004-04-04, 09:40 PM
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Agreed

Veteran
2004-04-04, 09:54 PM
Females wrestling in any gelatin/cream-based dessert redeems the tradition.

AztecWarrior
2004-04-04, 09:56 PM
Note: I am also not offended by REAL wrestlers. Wrestling is a sport. I have the utmost respect for real wrestlers, who wear unisuits, not Speedos, and are athletes. WWF is a bullshit show.

Mango
2004-04-04, 10:03 PM
Females wrestling in any gelatin/cream-based dessert redeems the tradition.

Not when they look like men :eek:

Indecisive
2004-04-04, 10:07 PM
ROFL.


Btw, the shaving thing is a body building thing. Dad was a body builder like 20 years ago, thats how I know. No, my father is not gay. Fuck you :p

AztecWarrior
2004-04-04, 10:30 PM
Armpits? How does removing underarm hair add on to weightlifting capabaility?

Besides, I am sure your father did not do gay stripper poses above other men wearing Speedos.

Rayder
2004-04-04, 10:36 PM
Makes you less smelly? I dunno.

Cyanide
2004-04-04, 10:38 PM
The TV comes on and two sweaty men wearing what appears to be Speedos are in a homoerotic pose, one on the floor behind the other, sideways.I have no idea who they are, as my knowledge of wrestling personalities is The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Hulk Hogan. They do not appear to be struggling at all, just gasping and grunting, like a really bad homoporn movie.

Black Speedos gets up, holding Pink Speedos (yes, he had pink Speedos on) in a headlock. As will repeat during this presentation, they are not struggling. Pink does not try to escape the headlock, either by flipping, backing into a post, or hitting Black with his elbow. This lasts for about 30 seconds, until Pink puts his two neurons to work and decides to hit Black with his elbow. Black throws Pink forward, then knocks him over.

Black gets up, stands over Pink, and proceeds to do what appears to be a male stripper dance, but minus the stripper because he is already stripped, all he has are those Speedos. He holds his arms above his head and rotates his hips.

This is the best depiction of a WWF match EVAR. Excellent rant.

Indecisive
2004-04-04, 10:44 PM
Its a visablity thing. You are supposed to see a "ripped" body and the muscules..and thats it.

They also use oils to look shiny.



/edit/ btw, just reassirting my h8 for wrestling here. It sucks.

Rayder
2004-04-04, 10:50 PM
What about the super-fat ones?

Indecisive
2004-04-04, 10:51 PM
Comidic value? You got me there :p

Rayder
2004-04-04, 10:53 PM
Comedic*

scarpas
2004-04-04, 11:51 PM
yeah, well i saw one once where some dude "ran flat into a 'metal' pole" because he was "flung" by another "wrestler", "blood" (that was a reddish orange) spilled down his face, then some other dude runs into the ring and jumps on him and is eventually kicked by the "horribly injured""pole runner", who magically gets up and starts fighting again.

:doh:

EDIT: that post made no scence did it?

OneManArmy
2004-04-05, 12:11 AM
I don't know what you guys expect when you watch wrestling. its no different than going to see a play. only, there's more sweaty men and fire.

real wrestlers are gay too. just because. all that on the floor man on man action is gay. unless its like UFC or PRIDE, dudes straight out trying to kill each other. love it.

Happy lil Elf
2004-04-05, 01:33 AM
Note: I am also not offended by REAL wrestlers. Wrestling is a sport. I have the utmost respect for real wrestlers, who wear unisuits, not Speedos, and are athletes. WWF is a bullshit show.
Put on by people who could break you in more ways than you can imagine. Yes the fights are staged, yes they are in fact scripted and yes wrestling is all around idiotic, but could almost anyone of them break any average person with ease? Yes. They know how to take a hit, and they know how to deliver a hit. They do in fact know holds that could easily literally break someone with the amount of power they could put behind them.

So in closing, is Wrestling dumb? Yes, very much so. Is it staged? Obviously so, but then so are movies ;). Is it dumb because the wrestlers are pussies? No, not even close. It's dumb, at least to me, because a soap opera that has some staged fights, with large men who can't act, appeals to me even less than a soap opera full of pretty boys and haggard old women who also have the acting skills of a highschool drama troupe.

Squeeky
2004-04-05, 01:57 AM
Wow Aztec, i agree.

Kikinchikin
2004-04-05, 04:08 AM
Notice why it's called WWE now. World Wrestling Entertainment

It's not meant to be real looking. It's supposed to be kinda like a circus.

Not trying to defend it or anything, but you were barking up the wrong tree.

edit: real wrestling is not gay and requires a lot of prowess and talent. I myself wrestled for 4 years and got quite good at it.

Fragmatic
2004-04-05, 04:55 AM
Wrestling is bullshit.

Tell us something we don't know :rolleyes:

Zatrais
2004-04-05, 04:59 AM
WWE is a show, pure entertainment. Its not supposed to be ultimate fighting or fightclub etc. They're not aiming for realism, just to entertain the crowds and putting on a show. Half the fun in the WWE is the storylines they have, promos, generally whacky stuff they do and the characters they have.

Its kinda like a soap but instead of talking they beat eachother up. And yeh, WWE matches are scripted and fake, but hey its just a show.

btw if you want to see it for yourself i think RAW airs tonight over there in the US.

ViperGTS
2004-04-05, 07:55 AM
One word Rasslininc...hmmmm......

Hezzy
2004-04-05, 08:09 AM
The TV comes on and two sweaty men wearing what appears to be Speedos are in a homoerotic pose, one on the floor behind the other, sideways.I have no idea who they are, as my knowledge of wrestling personalities is The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Hulk Hogan. They do not appear to be struggling at all, just gasping and grunting, like a really bad homoporn movie.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :lol:

1024
2004-04-05, 09:58 AM
The disclaimer says nothing about California. :evil:

Pilgrim
2004-04-05, 09:58 AM
Everybody got their thing!

Wrestling is fake, but don't doubt that they are some of the toughest SOB's to walk the earth!

I used to be a fan in my youth but grew out of it (not to mention wrestling today is getting kinda sucky!) so let me set a few things straight.

1) Any time you see blood in wrestling it's real. As best I can tell there is no exception to this rule. Take a razor, wrap it in tape, then cut yourself on one of the creases in your forehead. If done right it will heal leaving no mark and will blead like a MOFO (some wrestlers have been known to take some Anti-coagulants to help)

2) It hurts.

3) It's scripted... but not really. Let me explain. Both ambiguosly gay guys know the outcome, but the show they put on is up to them. That's why quality can vary so greatly from match to match. Math carefully and you'll see them talking to each other in the ring all the time!

4) You try performing at a high level of athleticism while still keeping your mind about you enough to not break your own, or your opponenets neck for 10-15 minutes. As a matter of fact get a timer, get a heavy bag, and punch it for 5 minutes straight, hard as you can. Then you'll know what it's like to wrestle!

Just thought I'd set any isconceptions straight... no pun intended!

OneManArmy
2004-04-05, 01:51 PM
w3rd. :)

Neon Apocalypse
2004-04-05, 03:07 PM
i agree with aztec, a dude in my outfit loves WWE (its not wwf, they changed it because the world wildlife foundation got pissed) and hes a brit living in texas, so i dunno what happened

since my family is european and i am aswell we hate this stuff and think its gay, they get paid huge sums of money for stage fighting, and aren't even that good, yeah it is pretty homosexual

but one show on TV caught my attention, MTV's Tough Enough was kinda interesting. They took a huge audition of people, sorta like american idol, and turned them into wrestlers. Now this seemed pretty intense. They had to run through a desert 15 miles with 15% of their body weight in a backpack. Then they had to train and do all this other stuff and get eliminated from it. It came down to two people. Some even quit claiming it was too much of a challenge and had mental breakdowns. Now unless this was all fake and was a setup it seems very intense. The guy who left because it was too mentally tough, Jonas was his name, lives near me and I have met him. He seems like a normal guy.

This entire wrestling thing puzzles me because they go through so much becoming a wrestler, but when they do it just seems really easy and stupid.

I assure you that the people on tough enough were having a hard time.

Red October
2004-04-05, 03:09 PM
If you turn on the TV and watch either RAW, Smackdown or one of thier refresher show's and expected to see *real* wrestling, you were in the wrong place. If you want realism, you were in the wrong place. "Real" wrestling does not sell enough to put butts in seats and does not garnish ratings. If you saw a "real" wrestling match...you would be fast asleep. The wrestling you see now is just flat out show, period. Its not supposed to be realistic, people are not supposed to be seriously injured and its strictly supposed to do one thing....entertain/amuse you. To watch WWE you have to "suspend" reality.

I disagree that wrestling is bullshit. With the right frame of mind (in other words, just enjoy the show...and it is just a show), it can be very entertaining. With that being said, If you said the WWE was Bullshit, I would probally still disagree. I would say WWE as of late has sucked, blown and swallowed all at once. Matches are very sloppy, storlines have little continuitiy, or orginality. Since the Monday night wars have ended, the only thing the WWE has had to do is to see if it can lick its own groin. Hopefully NWA will actually become formidable and force competition in the business. Then I just might be able to see some good shows put on by the two companies. If not, more planetside.

Madcow
2004-04-05, 03:37 PM
If there was a way to make money off of homophobia, almost this entire thread would be rich beyond their wildest dreams.

Corrosion
2004-04-05, 03:51 PM
Excellent rant.

AztecWarrior
2004-04-05, 07:21 PM
If there was a way to make money off of homophobia, almost this entire thread would be rich beyond their wildest dreams.
It's used for humor. I know that they are probably straight.

By 'probably' I mean 10-25% chance.

Madcow
2004-04-05, 07:37 PM
I wasn't referring just to yourself, Aztec. Using it as humor is no less homophobic, by the way.