RE: My favorite wrestlers of all time: Lex Lugar
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I could never watch wrestling and maybe you being in the USA played a role in you growing up with this. I may have watched a few minutes at one time trying to see what the hype was about, but could not see why people liked it so much. The fakeness is obvious and one would have to be brain dead to see that this was not rehearsed and scripted. I think the majority of these people that pumped iron and abused steroids have ended up being virtual cripples.
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"the fakeness is obvious" you say. Well sure, but it takes a special kind of athlete to get into a half an hour fight with someone, make contact with them and slam them around and even through tables and what not, and neither person dies or gets seriously injured. The ability to punch someone in the face and not hurt them is a very unique ability and I admire them for that.
But wrestling isn't just a USA thing, Japan and Mexico have massive circuits of their own and when WWE travels the world it is always sold out to huge crowds.
Yes they are professional stunt men in a profession that timing and choreography play an important part. I saw a wrestling match here in SA when it was not fake and they hit each other with these metal folded chairs and there was blood everywhere. This would not be appealing to the audiences and why they were so popular with youngsters growing up. They were like or similar to real life super heroes I guess.
a lot of the self-cutting and things like that are still embraced by smaller organizations but the wrestlers in big televised organizations can get in serious trouble for this and when someone is bleeding it can ruin to ability to broadcast. It's all quite stupid that some of these guys would conceal razor blades in their trunks to cut themselves open for show but that was the name of the game in the 80's. It could get really gruesome and some of those guys have mangled foreheads because of all the cutting they would do. Dustry Rhodes was on of the guys with so many forehead scars from this that he didn't really even look human anymore. Never did like that guy but I appreciate his dedication to the craft!