Do you watch "Rasslin"?

[windjammer]

How many of you watch "Rasslin"? Last night I watched it for two hours. Grandkids and other kids were over and asked if they could watch it on TV. Of course I said sure, you can.

I was impressed what a good show they put on. It looked real. I don't see how they appear to do what they do without getting hurt.

Hitting one another with chairs, etc. I don't see how they fake the things they do. They must do a lot of practise to do it without getting hurt.

When I was a kid, I watched it every chance I could. I lived in a small community (9 houses). Only 1 house had a TV at that time, (in the 50's). All of us kids would pile into that house weekly to watch wrestling. We were always welcome.

I guess it was as fake then as it is now, but I never thought, as a kid, it wasn't real. It was entertaining last night. They have some pretty good story writers to keep the fans interested.

I'm sure it's a big money maker. Maybe close to NASCAR in revenue.

 

[windjammer]

How many of you watch "Rasslin"? Last night I watched it for two hours. Grandkids and other kids were over and asked if they could watch it on TV. Of course I said sure, you can.

I was impressed what a good show they put on. It looked real. I don't see how they appear to do what they do without getting hurt.

Hitting one another with chairs, etc. I don't see how they fake the things they do. They must do a lot of practise to do it without getting hurt.

When I was a kid, I watched it every chance I could. I lived in a small community (9 houses). Only 1 house had a TV at that time, (in the 50's). All of us kids would pile into that house weekly to watch wrestling. We were always welcome.

I guess it was as fake then as it is now, but I never thought, as a kid, it wasn't real. It was entertaining last night. They have some pretty good story writers to keep the fans interested.

I'm sure it's a big money maker. Maybe close to NASCAR in revenue.

 

[Bib]

I used to watch it years ago....the storylines just got too unbelievable. Pro wrestling isn't a sport but the wrestlers are true athletes to be able to do what they do night after night....they work very hard for their money, IMO.

 

[ohiobuckeye]

Never wanted to waste the time it took to watch it, but my boys liked it when they were small, and it didn't take them long to figure out it was faked...they wised up around ages 8 and 10. I watched am occasional "match" with them and we all had a few chuckles. My mother was a real fan of "Professional Wrestling" and in her 70's about the time Hulk Hogan was popular and there was no way anyone could convince her it wasn't real.

 

[G-Mac]

Pro wrestling is for people who are too dumb to understand NASCAR.

 

[PLW45]

Originally posted by ohiobuckeye:
My mother was a real fan of "Professional Wrestling" and in her 70's about the time Hulk Hogan was popular and there was no way anyone could convince her it wasn't real.

My Great-Grandmother was a big Dukes of Hazzard fan (She watched it religously). When it was popular, she was in her eighties. My Dad and Uncle took her to a car show where Boss Hogg was making an appearance. She waited in line to meet him, and got on stage, and promptly reamed him out! She said that "Those Duke boys are good boys, GOOD boys, and you are mean and hurtful to them. I don't understand why you treat them the way you do."

To his credit, Boss Hogg took his hat off, and apologized over and over again, "Yes Ma'am, I promise to change."

Dad and Uncle couldn't breathe because they were laughing so hard.

 

[Gutpile Charlie]

I watched wrestling back in the very early 50's on tv. Occasionally a prompter would bring it to our town and they would set up at the baseball park, with the ring right over home plate. Folding chairs (yes, the kind that they hit each other with) were set up on four sides of the ring, and some folks would sit in the baseball grandstand.

I was like eleven or twelve at the time. I remember seeing Gorgeous George and the regional favorite good guy, Wild Red Berry.

One evening, leaving the ball field while with my parents, we stopped at a little mom and pop burger joint, right next door. Guess who was there? All the wrestlers were sitting around one table having pie and coffee. They were also traveling together in one big van.

As a little guy I was surprised that guys that had been beating the crap out of each other and breaking chairs across their backs could be cordially eating together?

Ah yes, well, it's "show biz"!

 

[Eagle Guns]

I'm a little dumb but ,not dumb enough to watch Rasslin.

 

[feralmerril]

Like you guys I also was a fan in the 50s. I seldom watch it now. I had a uncle that was a pro wrestler. (That was before my time in the 30s and 40s). About 12 years ago I had a girl friend who had a son who had a wrestling school.
One of my best friends was a high school and college wrestling national champ and then a wrestling coach at beloit college in wisconsin.
When we were young we would wrestle a lot together.
A old pro wrestler once told me when I was young and nieve enough to ask, said simply, "you dont think that a human body could take that kind of punishment for real, do ya?"
Yes, it is "fake", although they do sometimes get "carried away". And you do have to be in shape to do it.
Recently a old favorite of mine, (vern gagne) was in the convalencent hospital with alzheimers. He killed another patiant.
http://www.britannica.com/blog...in-the-nursing-home/

Charlie, Gorgeous George was a friend to my uncle.

 

[Wayne02]

Originally posted by G-Mac:
Pro wrestling is for people who are too dumb to understand NASCAR.

Pretty much the same fan base.

The 16-time World Wrestling heavyweight champion, affectionately known as "Nature Boy," will serve as the honorary race director...

The featured match in what is dubbed "a night of fractured fenders and shattered dreams" actually is a rematch from a fight that occurred in the LMS Nationwide Series garage before the October race.

Kevin "Happy" Harvick versus "Cousin" Carl...

On the undercard there was Dale "The People's Choice" Junior versus Tony "Smoke" Stewart, and Kyle "Rowdy" Busch versus "Just About Anybody."...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn...92&name=newton_david

 

[windjammer]

I expect some of those 'Rasslers, make as much money as the NASCAR drivers..

 

[LuddhaBuddha]

I watched it in my preteen years, after that the only time I saw it was going to local shows that my best friends brother would wrestle in, mostly to heckle and laugh.

 

[ArcticFox]

I haven't watched it much but I have had students that followed it. I did see the movie, "The Wrestler" which pretty much sums it up for me, it's just scripted entertainment.

 

[feralmerril]

All the same, you had to be a pretty rough guy to challange crowds of farmers for a buck a minuete or whatever to stay with you! My uncle had a tent at the state fair and carnavals years ago. Once he owned a bear to wrestle as he slowed up.
Never will forget a family story years ago. I guess he was talking tough or something in front of grandma. She said Arther, what you going to do when you stand in front of Gott? He said, "I will take care of him too!"
While he lived a rough life, I did hear that he did get right with God before he cashed his chips in.
My dad said once Art and him came out of a bar when they were young and going to get in their car when another guy came out and somehow backed on top of uncle arts foot and stopped on it. Guess art started yelling some colorfull stuff what he was going to do to him, the guy looked and probley reconised him, got scared, and smoked the tires on his foot getting out of there!

 

[slowburninsteve]

Wrasslin' is the greatest soap opera for men ever created and I love it!!!!!

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

I think it is one of the better comedies on TV. The stuff is so absurd and off-the-wall as to be funny.

I worked with a former pro wrestler many years ago. The injuries that he recieved while doing it caused him to be in continual pain. This was back when it was regional and territorial.

Pro wrestling is like comic books. Yes, it is scripted with writers and storylines, but those guys do get hurt and sometimes worse. When you learn something about how it is behind the scenes, you tend to get a new respect for the people that do it for a living.

 

[taw43]

Somewhat on the same line, Verne Gagne who was a pro wrestler and also started the American Wrestling Asociation . He has been diagnosed with alzeimers disease and has been living in the memory-loss section of a Bloomington, Minnesota health care facility.[1] On January 26, 2009, Gagne got into an altercation with Helmut Gutmann, a 97-year old resident of the facility, put him in a wrestling manuever called the boston crab, and broke his hip. Many argue that Verne believed he was in a wrestling match.
The man was admitted to the hospital, and died on February 14 of complications from the injury.[3] On February 25, 2009, the man's death was officially ruled a homicide by the Hennepin County medical examiner's office.[4] Gagne had no recollection of the incident.[4]
On March 12th, 2009, Hennepin County Prosecutor's office officially announced that Verne Gagne will not be criminally charged as a result of the death; because of Gagne's dementia, he lacked the mental capacity necessary to have intended to harm Gutman.[5]

 

[GatorFarmer]

I watch it. My older son, though just a toddler, seems to love it and watches with rapt attention. It kills time and it's less annoying then Barney or other children's programs.

 

[normanvin]

I have been a fan for years. But I do need to take a break from it once in a while. It starts to become a soap opra.

 

[Waldo]

I watch it from time to time. I used to work with a guy who had been a pro boxer. We could always get him exited by telling him wrestling was real, not fake. I always ask people that get upset about wrestling not being real " Do you think John Wayne was really killing those Indians?"