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Now on the other hand there is the good old Roman Greek Wrestling or Amateur Wrestling which is real sport. |
I think the level of skill needed to become a profesional wrestler is being underestimated. WWE has many "actors" who made it in amateur wrestling before going pro. Brett "The Hitman" Hart,(it was his brother that died, falling when a cable snapped), Scott "The Genetic Freak" Stiener. Kurt Angle won two gold medals for america in the 96 olympics.
JB- the cage fighting you refered to in an earlier post is known as UFC(Ultimate Fighting Championship) where matches are won by either knockout or submission hold. I think the popularity of this sport derives from the fact that it is real, and exciting.
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JB- the cage fighting you refered to in an earlier post is known as UFC(Ultimate Fighting Championship) |
My older brother and I wrestled in high school (I still am) and were pretty good at it too. Roman Greek Wrestling/Greco-Roman style wrestling as it's otherwise known as is the, in my families opinion, the only type of wrestling.
Naturally we do support Free Style wrestling because it helps in throws and gives you something to do during the off-season, but that TV wrestling is a pathetic excuse for wrestling.
They call it Professional Wrestling when in all honesty it's nothing like Professional Wrestling, which I have to add there are something like 8 USA REAL Professional Teams that wrestle each other and have a tournament at the end of the season. And it was started by a former Olympic Gold medalist who .-ed that fake acting wrestling.
I'd have to agree with Glyphfury as well, too many of the younger kids these days are starting to think that what they see on TV is real, so they attempt to do the 'moves' that a 'professional wrestler' did in the last cage match to their brother/sister and end up hurting them. I actually read an Article like a year ago that said an older child attempted a 'wrestling move' on their younger sibling and ended up killing them. Imagine the grief the mother and father must feel. Imagine what that older child will feel for the rest of their lives knowing that they killed their own sibling?
Whenever I think of WWE/WWF, what ever it's called now, I always get agitated that people compare it to high school Greco-Roman wrestling, when they have nothing in common.