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For years people have made fun of pro wrestling and their fans. Who would want to watch a bunch of guys in tights wrestling with each other? Who wants to see all those cheesy characters in those storylines? And why would they want to watch something that is "fake"? I'll tell you why it's fun to watch wrestling. It's because pro wrestling features the best athletes on the face of the planet. It's not fake, it's staged First let's clear up this whole "wrestling is fake" idea. Yes pro wrestling is staged. Before the match the winner is already decided, sometimes before a match the wrestlers will even figure out what they are going to do in the match step by step (although sometimes they just wing it too). The punches aren't real and all the suplexes and other moves are done in a way to protect the other wrestler. However, nothing about it is fake. It doesn't matter if the ring has springs underneath it. You try going to a wrestling ring and just falling on your back 30 times. Then try doing that everyday for a week and I'll bet your back will be sore for a long time. Wrestlers do this for about 20 years straight. Also how can you fake jumping off things? Today's style of pro wrestling is very high risk. Wrestlers will jump off the turnbuckle, off the ropes, sometimes even a ladder or a steel cage and there's no way of faking that. I don't care if the ring has springs or if the outside of the ring has two or three inches of padding when you fall off a 15 foot ladder on to a two inch padding you don't feel the two inch padding you feel the cement underneath it. Wrestlers do things I've never seen before Obviously professional athletes are a lot better at what they do than me and my friends but that doesn't mean they do anything that ever makes me wonder how in the world they did that. Peyton Manning is a great passer but I've seen people who can throw a football. Lebron James is a great basketball player but I've seen people who can shoot a basketball. What I haven't seen is someone run through a ring jump from the mat to one of the ropes suddenly stop, balanced on a rope like a tight rope walker, then spring of the rope about ten feet in the air like Sabu. I've never seen someone climb up on a turnbuckle, jump in the air, do a back flip in the air and then land flat on someone else like Paul London. I've never seen someone jump onto the top turnbuckle, do the splits and then do a back flip on to somebody else like Rob Van Dam. I've never seen a person who is 5'11 and 220 pounds but was able to throw around guys who were 7'0 and 350 pounds like they were rag dolls like Chris Benoit does. ESPN can debate who they think is the best athlete but Lebron James, Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Kobe Bryant, Alex Rodriguez, Tom Brady and Derek Jeter can't do a third of what pro wrestlers do every night. Wrestlers don't have an off-season Unlike other professional sports pro wrestling takes place twelve months a year and they don't take months off in between matches like boxers or MMA fighters either. If you're working for a major company like the WWE or the WCW back when it still existed then in addition to weekly TV shows and PPVs you're also wrestling on house shows. House shows are shows that aren't televised but still take place so that people can see the wrestlers live. In all if you're working full time in a major federation then you're wrestling five or six nights a week. Now let's do some math. If you're a NFL player you play about sixteen times a year and if you play twenty years then you're working for three hundred and twenty days. If you play in the NBA or NHL you're playing about 80 days of the year and over twenty years that's one thousand six hundred days. If you're playing in Major League Baseball then you play roughly one hundred and sixty days a year and that means over twenty years you are playing three thousand two hundred times. But if you're wrestling full time in the WWE and you're wrestling five to six times a week then that means you're wrestling somewhere between two hundred and sixty to three and twelve nights a year. Over twenty years that comes out to somewhere between five thousand two hundred nights to six thousand two hundred and forty. In addition to that most wrestlers don't even stop after forty years. Like other pro sports most pro wrestlers now get into the business in their late teens to early twenties, and most of them continue to wrestle well past their 40s. Most of the top wrestlers today like Shawn Michaels, the Undertaker, Chris Benoit, Booker T and Jeff Jarrett have already hit 40 years old and still have several years left in their career. Ric Flair is fifty-eight and is still wrestling on a regular basis. Sport Skills Difficult Rankings In an article by another Associated Content Producer called Why Hockey Rules the author brings up a test that ESPN did on their Page 2 website. ESPN got together a panel of experts made up of sports scientists from the United States Olympic Committee, of academicians who study the science of muscles and movement, of a star two-sport athlete, and of journalists who spend their lives watching athletes. They gave each sport a 1 - 10 difficulty ranking in ten different categories. Their results were that the top five hardest sports to play were boxing, ice hockey, football, basketball, and wrestling. However, that's amateur wrestling. If you look across the board at each category you'll see that pro wrestling would actually get a higher score than amateur wrestling so if pro wrestling were included it'd easily be higher. For instance Amateur wrestling got a 7.13 rating in strength. Obviously strength is very important in wrestling but in amateur wrestling you're grappling on the ground with wrestlers your own size. In pro wrestling you're often wrestling guys who are bigger than your weight class, and you often have to lift them up in the air. Wrestling got a 6.63 in Endurance. Endurance is important in amateur wrestling but not as important as in pro wrestling when you often have 15 - 20 minute matches, some federations have matches that go 45 - 60 minutes. And again you're not on the ground grappling, you're on your feet running all over the ring. Your durability in pro wrestling has to be better. Like I said before some wrestlers are wrestling two hundred or three hundred times a night. If you're not durable you're not going to make it more than a year in pro wrestling. A lot of pro wrestlers need a lot more flexibility than amateur wrestlers so they can do their acrobatic moves. And probably the biggest difference is in the nerve category. I'm sure people get injured in amateur wrestling but not like in pro wrestling. When you're a pro wrestler something could happen at any time that could end your career or your life. It's happened before even to the most careful wrestlers. D'Lo Brown had a move in his repertoire called a running powerbomb; he'd been using it for a while and had probably done it literally hundreds of times. But one night against Darren "Droz" Drozdov something went wrong and D'Lo dropped Droz on his head and neck and Droz was paralyzed. It can happen quite easily if you're not careful but even when you are careful things can go wrong. You also have to be willing to jump off things which could easily break a leg if you landed wrong, or you could land on top of somebody else and hurt them. Probably the only sport you have to have more nerve than pro wrestling is boxing. The overall scores on ESPN's test had amateur wrestling just nine points behind boxing, but the differences between pro wrestling and amateur wrestling would easily make up for nine points and make it the most difficult sport. |
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