Should Pro Wrestling be called that?
Should Pro Wrestling be called Pro Wrestling?
Afterall an amateur Boxer that takes parts in the Olympics can turn 'Professional'. A Professional Boxer afterall is a Professional Boxer.
However, the term Professional Wrestling means the complete opposite to the likes of amateur Wrestling. Afterall. Pro Wrestling is todays term for a work, pre-determined matches like the WWE.
In fairness and realism, shouldnt Promotions like the WWE be refered to as "Professional Performance" or "Performance Wrestling"?
Shouldn't Professional Wrestling be the term for the 'real' Professional Wrestlers. The same connection to the likes of amateur Boxing and Professional Boxing?
I have my opinions of course.. but what are yours?
It shall be interesting to hear from other people and their opinions!!
Answers:
It really hasn't been called Pro Wrestling by one one in the Industry since the late 1990s. It has only been called this by fans and magazine publishers. Turn on Wrestling one daye and listen. they will never use the term Pro Wrestling. They will of course use sports entertainment
Not Pro Wrestling
Poo Wrestling, they're all **** actors anyway
Well they are prostituting themselves for some very poor acting. What ever they call it tis still sh1t
Even though its outcome is predetermined, the WWE is still professional in that its wrestlers are paid. It might not be the type of pure wrestling we see at the Olympics, but it's wrestling nonetheless. I'm not a fan, but I have no problem with the name.
I think it would be a bigger issue if there was a competing professional wrestling circuit made up of those Olympic and amateur champions, but it's not like the WWE is stealing the spotlight from such a group.
It's tough to compare it to boxing, given that there's not an "entertainment" form of boxing to compete in a similar manner as the WWE does with wrestling. I know there are other fighting organizations like the UFC or K-1 fighting, but they don't bill themselves as boxing organizations.
Not anymore they are really entertainers
Definately NOT a sport
its more like stunt work, like the fights you see in films (movies)
Lee Majors would make a good host for Wrestling shows
(The Unknown Stuntman)
I'm sorry but it's all fake.
It is a farse total bollocks
The word "Pro" is correct, Profanity in action, or maybe "Per", Perfect Idiots. It's garbage.
No it shouldn't it should be called steroid popping halfwits pretending to hit each other.
Pro' Hams maybe
No its perfect the way it is.
Pro wrestling is a termthat has been used since the Keyfabe days where the business was strongly defended and sold as a legit sport. Whilst the industry has opened up since Vince Mcmahon was forced to expose the business in his infamous steroids trial, it is nice to keep some of the old things like the name.
To keep the fans (99% of whom know its a work,) entertained, there has to be a suspension of belief, if this is streatched too far by changng the name to what you have suggested than that belief has been streached too far and the buble bursts in the same was as it would if rey mysterio gorilla pressed the big show
Excellent question. I gave you thumbs up. While it is true, industry insiders do not refer to themselves as "professional" wrestlers, it is a form of gladiatorial entertainment disguised as wrestling.
I don't think though that pro wrestling can be thought of as a natural progression from amateur wrestling. Look at the back grounds of the current wrestlers. They are all from body building and other professions. Kurt and Shelton are the only ones who tout their amateur wrestling status. I'm sure there are others but names escape me right now.
They are "professional" because they've gone through the schools, did their time on indy circuits, worked up the ranks to make the "big time" with the WWE. Professional in that they are professional amateur wrestlers? I think a pure mat wrestler on the top of his game would pin anyone but Chris Benoit currently in the WWE.
Chris is probably the only pure professional wrestler in the industry now. He's learned from the best, broke his god damn neck, and done his time. That's were the pro comes in.
Wrestling became entertainent.
I think the term they use now, WWE that is, is 'Sports Entertainment'. The wrestlers are called superstars now instead of pro wrestlers.
it for upcoming wrestlers trained and get better then get pick for wwe for raw or smackdown.
Its all one big act in the main by very good gymnasts, and wrestling has always been that way, Some of those Guys perform every day of the week so they do have to get over those "terrible "beatings quickly and often. They are really very good FIT actors and do give value for money.
Sports Entertainment.
Afterall an amateur Boxer that takes parts in the Olympics can turn 'Professional'. A Professional Boxer afterall is a Professional Boxer.
However, the term Professional Wrestling means the complete opposite to the likes of amateur Wrestling. Afterall. Pro Wrestling is todays term for a work, pre-determined matches like the WWE.
In fairness and realism, shouldnt Promotions like the WWE be refered to as "Professional Performance" or "Performance Wrestling"?
Shouldn't Professional Wrestling be the term for the 'real' Professional Wrestlers. The same connection to the likes of amateur Boxing and Professional Boxing?
I have my opinions of course.. but what are yours?
It shall be interesting to hear from other people and their opinions!!
Answers:
It really hasn't been called Pro Wrestling by one one in the Industry since the late 1990s. It has only been called this by fans and magazine publishers. Turn on Wrestling one daye and listen. they will never use the term Pro Wrestling. They will of course use sports entertainment
Not Pro Wrestling
Poo Wrestling, they're all **** actors anyway
Well they are prostituting themselves for some very poor acting. What ever they call it tis still sh1t
Even though its outcome is predetermined, the WWE is still professional in that its wrestlers are paid. It might not be the type of pure wrestling we see at the Olympics, but it's wrestling nonetheless. I'm not a fan, but I have no problem with the name.
I think it would be a bigger issue if there was a competing professional wrestling circuit made up of those Olympic and amateur champions, but it's not like the WWE is stealing the spotlight from such a group.
It's tough to compare it to boxing, given that there's not an "entertainment" form of boxing to compete in a similar manner as the WWE does with wrestling. I know there are other fighting organizations like the UFC or K-1 fighting, but they don't bill themselves as boxing organizations.
Not anymore they are really entertainers
Definately NOT a sport
its more like stunt work, like the fights you see in films (movies)
Lee Majors would make a good host for Wrestling shows
(The Unknown Stuntman)
I'm sorry but it's all fake.
It is a farse total bollocks
The word "Pro" is correct, Profanity in action, or maybe "Per", Perfect Idiots. It's garbage.
No it shouldn't it should be called steroid popping halfwits pretending to hit each other.
Pro' Hams maybe
No its perfect the way it is.
Pro wrestling is a termthat has been used since the Keyfabe days where the business was strongly defended and sold as a legit sport. Whilst the industry has opened up since Vince Mcmahon was forced to expose the business in his infamous steroids trial, it is nice to keep some of the old things like the name.
To keep the fans (99% of whom know its a work,) entertained, there has to be a suspension of belief, if this is streatched too far by changng the name to what you have suggested than that belief has been streached too far and the buble bursts in the same was as it would if rey mysterio gorilla pressed the big show
Excellent question. I gave you thumbs up. While it is true, industry insiders do not refer to themselves as "professional" wrestlers, it is a form of gladiatorial entertainment disguised as wrestling.
I don't think though that pro wrestling can be thought of as a natural progression from amateur wrestling. Look at the back grounds of the current wrestlers. They are all from body building and other professions. Kurt and Shelton are the only ones who tout their amateur wrestling status. I'm sure there are others but names escape me right now.
They are "professional" because they've gone through the schools, did their time on indy circuits, worked up the ranks to make the "big time" with the WWE. Professional in that they are professional amateur wrestlers? I think a pure mat wrestler on the top of his game would pin anyone but Chris Benoit currently in the WWE.
Chris is probably the only pure professional wrestler in the industry now. He's learned from the best, broke his god damn neck, and done his time. That's were the pro comes in.
Wrestling became entertainent.
I think the term they use now, WWE that is, is 'Sports Entertainment'. The wrestlers are called superstars now instead of pro wrestlers.
it for upcoming wrestlers trained and get better then get pick for wwe for raw or smackdown.
Its all one big act in the main by very good gymnasts, and wrestling has always been that way, Some of those Guys perform every day of the week so they do have to get over those "terrible "beatings quickly and often. They are really very good FIT actors and do give value for money.
Sports Entertainment.
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