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| Wes Draven | Dec 28 2011, 05:19 AM Post #1 |
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I've never been too much of a ranter, well, actually, it's kinda who I am, but eh, it's time for another one. It's always been a discussion that surrounds professional wrestling, but lately, for me it has began to reach a boiling point. I feel as if I don't get my frustrations off of my chest, I could very well evaporate. Everybody happily questions why wrestling fans can garner enjoyment out of watching professional wrestling, it's "fake" after all. They act as if they just dropped a bombshell on us, or that they just told us that Santa Clause isn't real, when it retrospect, I challenge them to find one professional wrestling fan over the age of six that doesn't know that wrestling is choreographed and predetermined. They, of course, completely ignore the fact that the best things in life aren't usually real, and you know why? Real sucks, and is almost always exhausting, there's a reason that Batman captured the heart of millions whilst Jersey Shore happily holds only the eyes of the ignorant, but it's okay, Jersey Shore is real, right? Is it possible that these criticism are actually correct, maybe I should say farewell to professional wrestling and watch something a little bit more wholesome. I could watch Mixed Martial Arts or boxing, I've had insomnia for the entirety of my life, and I feel as though that could really solve everything. I never really could get into football either, maybe it's because I find the ordeal relatively mindless, where's the story? Why should I care about these individuals tossing a ball back in-fourth, who's dog do I have to kill to find some entertainment? I know exactly why I care about professional wrestlers, some of them have descriptive and decorative characters, and some are immensely talented. This will serve as the cue for people to say that it doesn't take talent to wrestle, or that the competitors don't go through pain. I'm not going to try and convince these individuals otherwise because numerous of them are too narrow-minded to take anything of what I say into account. They likely aren't able to formulate an opinion of their own, and instead will just follow the crowd. What I will say is that if you would actually research companies, you'd see the talent that goes into the craft. Maybe spanning outside of mainstream, take a chance with companies such as Ring of Honor, or Pro Wrestling Guerrilla. You could even just watch a well-made episode of Monday Night RAW, where the competitors are given the time of day to precisely shine inside of the squared circle. Whenever somebody states that competitors don't go through pain, a long list comes to mind. Something that stuck with me even if it should only be faintly recalled is as I watched my older brother come home from a wrestling training facility. I was surprised to discover that his chest was purpler than Grimace, and it was all obtained from a mere night on the job, but the only thing that was actually being done was the competitors delivering chops to one another. Steve Austin broke his neck because of a botched pile-driver delivered by Owen Hart, Owen Hart plummeted to his death while he was trying to descend from the rafters to the ring. Owen Hart's brother, Bret Hart took a botched kick to the skull by Bill Goldberg, thus ending his career. Chris Benoit took the life of his wife and son, before going onto hang himself. It was found afterward after looking at his brain that the reason for these attacks were provoked by the damage that he obtained whilst wrestling. A doctor went as far as stating that Benoit's brain was so severely damaged that it resembled the brain of an 85-year-old Alzheimer's patient. A Japanese wrestler that went by the name of Mitsuharu Misawa took a belly to back suplex from Akitoshi Saito before losing consciousness, then eventually dieing. In less than three decades, Mick Foley suffered six concussions, one broken jaw, two broken noses, one broken cheekbone, losing four front teeth, having two thirds of his ear ripped off, separating his shoulder, fracturing his left shoulder, dislocated his shoulder, second degree burns, breaking his right wrist, bone chippings in his right elbow, six broken ribs, a torn abdominal, a torn ACL, a broken toe, a total of over three-hundred stitches in his arms, head, eyebrows, hands, ears, shin, cheek and lip, thousands of thumb tack holes, and a broken left thumb. Ric Flair is approaching his fortieth year in professional wrestling, and it's not hard to find him, he still occasionally wrestles and can be found limping around Impact Wrestling. As he struggles around the ring, you can at times see the immense amount of pain that he's put through, but he still keeps going. The world has booted the downed man repetitively, and it's come to the point where he doesn't even have the choice of departing the squared circle. It must be difficult for him to keep coming back because whenever he's not getting the standing ovation that he deserves, which is often, he watches people look down their noses at him for what he does, and for no good reason. Maybe that's why we try to defend professional wrestling, because it's been buried relentlessly with so much unfairness that we have to push ourselves twice as much as the typical fan, to give the competitors the appreciation that a majority of them deserve. I've begun to reach the point of apathy, and finally, I can say, whether you like it or you don't, it's still real to me, dammit. |
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