A common problem that wrestling fans have is needing to defend professional wrestling against people who say it is fake. Sure the punches are pulled and the matches are pre-determined (sorry anyone who hasn’t figured that out yet) but to call it fake seems disrespectful to the wrestlers. You can’t fake all of those bumps in the ring night after night. Hard to fake getting suplexed off the top rope. To say that professional wrestlers are not incredible athletes is just plain silly. Xavier Woods of the new Day had a fantastic response to a troll on twitter who was calling wrestling fake. Here is what he said:
Hard to explain it any better than this. Wrestlers are incredible athletes and deserve much better than saying they perform a ‘fake’ sport. The pain is real and the injuries are similar if not worse than other professional sports. Not to mention the guys in the WWE wrestle over 300 days a year and are on the road constantly.
If anyone of your friends or someone is attacking you about wrestling being fake, please direct them to this page and Xavier’s response!
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Perfect response from an intelligent man. Handled it the way he was supposed to. The ONLY thing fake in wrestling are the punches & kicks. Its just remedial that people still use the “fake” as if its still a secret or something. Like yes, we all know its scripted, that doesnt mean i still cant enjoy it. If i cant enjoy something because its scripted then that means I cant go to the movies anymore or watch The Walking Dead, or even play my PS4.
Completely agree