Speakin' sports: Is professional wrestling real or scripted?


Jon Mangrum
Sports Editor

Anyone who has ever been blessed with the gift of watching wrestling knows the truth. You have to be a complete fool to believe anything else. It is plain as day: wrestling is real.

I have been an avid wrestling fan for three to four months now and I have seen it all, none of which could even be considered fake.

Actors may be able to drum up a few fake, sobby tears but I have yet to see Tom Hanks start to bleed from the forehead on command. Nor have I ever, EVER, seen a chair bend on its own. I have, however, seen brass knuckles (which I agree do not belong in the ring) smash the skull of an opponent splashing warm blood all over the canvas. I have seen folding chairs recycled across the back of an athlete and tables smashed into bits from the force of an abused body.

How can people witness this athletic masterpiece and then call it fake? They might as well walk up to Michael Jordan and tell him since he planned his spectacular dunks and practiced them that they are all fake and non-spectacular.

WWF stars practice just as any other athletes but there is no script. I can understand how someone might believe it is choreographed; after all, when a guy gets his head busted open one night and three days later he appears fine with no stitches, it might seem fake. But these guys are superior athletes with bodies trained to survive harsh punishment and they obviously heal at a much faster rate than a normal human being. It is so simple to understand, yet so many refuse to believe

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