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Well...now that the tennis courts are closed here in the neighborhood, we are not even able to play with our own family members. At least the golf course is still open as long as you are alone in your golf cart, for now, and one can still go for a bike ride or walk as long as distance is maintained. As far as the fake wrestling, it's so fake, it's funny to watch for a few minutes, but ever since Goldberg retired, it's not as much fun anymore.Just hard to see how it's considered "essential"...but I'm sure there's some backroom deal that got it labelled as such...Back to your regular scheduled programming!
After spending a few hours with my retired wrestler - elevator client, I can attest, it's not all fake. He's suffering all the aches and pains that most any aging professional athlete suffers. He didn't put a elevator in his home for fun, he has some serious mobility issues. And he's not THAT old. He said it takes HOURS of rehearsals to do all those moves. Yes, they're not always really pounding the crap out of each other, but it's physical stuff.
After we moved back to SC and had tv, my wife and I watched wwe every Friday night. It's a Guilty pleasure with no excuses. Some people drink soda like it has some redemptive value, endlessly stream the most bizarre crap anybody can imagine & produce, whatever. We have brats or Italian sausage and watch dudes flip & fly without breaking their or each other's necks. Then it got important, shifted to cable tv that we don't have and we didn't watch anything for about a decade. It came back to network TV last Oct. we were thrilled.When - took over, they changed format to do it at their FL training center in an empty ring with no one visible except an announcer and a couple of other wrestlers in front of the cameras. It's even more ridiculous than ever. And we've never enjoyed it more. Those people know they're ridiculous. Now they do it with no pretense to entertain people without the people even being there. People can laugh all they want want. The WWE people have our total respect. What they're doing right now has less to do with the wrestling than it ever has.
That's what we talk about while watching them- how much that's going to hurt in a few years and how someone who's done that for many long years can still function. Being physically active and strong (not gym muscles) has been a large part of our lives. Watching someone 250-350lbs do the things they do, even though it's fully choreographed, is what we like to see. We know how & how much we hurt and regularly comment how much more it must and will hurt to do that for a living.There's a former pro wrestler here in town. After being introduced, I had a long talk with him one day about the business. He told me about the scheduling of contracted career ascension for the right people. He had fulfilled his obligations and met the right goals. He only had a relatively short stint (few months) in Japan to complete before becoming a headliner here in the USA. During the Japan tour, he began to exhibit symptoms of MS and that ended his career before he went "big". Another friend here in town started wrestling around 92-93 as Mr Wonderful and really enjoyed it. Said the money was great. He made some posters around the time I moved in 94 but apparently didn't go big. Bill was a hoot to chat with, his framed artwork/photos are fantastic! Photos with Ali, Fraiser, Don King, Mean Gene, and all those pro wrestlers like macho man savage and Andre the Giant. Posters from events world wide with his name. When this mess is over I'll have to go see him again. when I was 16 or 17, I was at a nearby pool hall on a Sunday afternoon between chores with only 1-2 people. A big Cadillac that we didn't recognize stopped at the gas pumps and out stepped Nikita Koloff, Adrian Street & Hart and one of the younger long-haired redneck gonna-get-beaten fighters. Of course, there was no big Russian accent when Nikita talked. Just regular guys, but fun to meet them. They bought some chips and drinks, politely received us and drove off to the next event.
What is "WWE"?
My oldest son and I had been to several WWF matches. My favorite was seeing Bradshaw get piled driven by Kane and we yelled "get the hell back to Texas!" But I'll never it watch again.
As far as the fake wrestling, it's so fake, it's funny to watch for a few minutes, but ever since Goldberg retired, it's not as much fun anymore.
What! There're Fake?? Damn...
