I can actually understand where your friend is coming from,cause wrestling can get a lil too silly for its own good lol,and no matter how hard alot of wrestling tries,it'll never really resemble a fight. At the same time tho,you have to appreciate the theatrics and athleticism of todays wrestling and realize "yea,the fight isn't real,but what they are doing is very real".

I think alot of fight fans just can't process the act of actively not trying to hurt someone in wrestling vs someone actively trying to hurt someone in combat sports.

I just explain it as...yeah they're not trying to seriously injure each other but...that s*** still hurts...idc how much you work out in the gym catching a 200-400 pound dude even perfectly gonna have you sore the next day lol...chops really hurt, getting slammed on your back hurts...not to mention doing that s*** for 20-40 min sometimes...I agree it doesn't resemble a real fight but it's performance art just with a physical/combat aspect to it...I guess I get how it could be hard for someone to make that transition but I also feel like a lot of MMA fans were pro wrestling fans when they were younger considering how much UFC bites their aesthetic

like if you can watch a choreographed fight scene in a movie and dig it I don't get what's different about wrestling...if you can watch every villain give a speech before killing the main character instead of just killing them like would realistically happen I don't see why you can't enjoy wrestling lol I remember showing him the Wardlow and Hager MMA style match and he was like "the f*** are the rules for this?"

Alot of MMA dudes come off as people who watched wrestling thinking it was 100% real,discovered it wasn't,it were scorned ever since lol. But yea,I think MMA gained that old school Attitude Era,beer drinking,sloppy drunk audience from wrestling a long time ago(or at least a good chunk of them).

I also feel like WWE dominating and controlling the narrative for so long that their sports entertainment is the only type of pro wrestling there is and bc over the last decade or so they've been marketed as a more kid friendly show that probably doesn't help the case for the entire industry...pre determined or not idk how someone watches Omega/Ospreay or Omega/Okada not to mention numerous other matches and doesn't walk away with their mind blown...wrestling's always been a variety show so you gotta throw in the silly s*** most the time (I know there's exceptions)

That too,WWE likes to pin itself up as the NFL of wrestling,when thats kinda not true,but it kinda is. They don't swallow up every other organization thats in front of it(they try hard as tho)like NFL does XFL/USFL(as in,that XFL/USFL are so microscopically tiny on NFL's radar,its like they don't even exist,AEW/NJPW exist to WWE). But with WWE being the most accessible wrestling program after the other accessible wrestling program(WCW)died,thats all people knew,lets not forget the fact that alot of people gave up wrestling altogether when WCW died too.

And yea,Omega/Okada-Omega-Ospreay is transcendent s***. Hell,I remember showing friends and family Omega/Tanahashi from WK13 and they were compelled throughout the match,but in the grand scheme of things,their gonna always go back to WWE,cause its always there,like the NFL is always "there".

Bro out there looking like s*** too

I still gotta peep that Omega/Tanahashi match tbh...might get around to it today...that njpw account is a pain the ass but so many great matches on there to watch

Do that,great match that gets kinda overshadowed by the Omega/Jericho-Omega/Okada stuff,and yes,NJPW World is a treasure trove when you figure out how to work the site.

What's wild is I actually think Jericho and Omega's DON match was crazier though I understand the importance and hype when it comes to that New Japan match

Ppl overhyping this segment...why Roman asking this when that's the entire point of the storyline for Cody lmao

I can honestly see Cody losing at WM lmao

They better not keep dragging out roman as champ smh

Cody loses at WM,next night,Roman s***s on everyone and vacates the title to go on vacay,we get a crazy multi-man main event for the Title with Cody in it,Cody wins it there

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Markkks markkkin it up in here early

You can tell an AEW PPV is this weekend lol

What's funny is we're all wrestling marks at the end of the day

Im not even a MARKKK that often,let me MARKKK this weekend

I don't associate with anything with 3 consecutive K's. You can have that

Im putting emphasis on it,its not what you think!

Gnarly talking business

Parker is trash too. Send him to the streets TK.

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That Roman promo wasn't all that tbh. He's had better promos. The Dusty impersonation was spot on tho.

Keith Lee's new look ain't it either.lol Idc who he's trying to prove a point. Dye the hair G.