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Originally Posted by soicky
Yeh, i know what you mean, but with boxing no one knows whats going to happen next, with wrestling it's all fixed, they try and make it appealing with their stunts but it's not real.
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Just to clarify - it's not all fixed. The results are predetermined but providing both workers know their stuff then 90% of what happens in the ring is off-the-cuff.
And "it's not real"....as Graham says, I have a nice list of injuries that say otherwise.
The majority of wrestlers (due to injuries I'm semi-retired but mainly referee these days) have a massive chip on our shoulders about not getting respect for what we do - we never claim it's a legit sport but we have to be very skillful and we suffer countless injuries and bumps which are all very real. And unless it's something life-threatening, the show must go on. Footballers can have injury time, the magic sponge, a bottle of lucozade etc. If we get injured in a match we carry on until the finish. Those are the unwritten rules.
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