The writers behind the articles pointedly calling for Pro Wrestling to be "banned from Bleacher Report" can't possibly be surprised by the fervor and backlash created by their pieces.
The truth is that pro wrestling has always been like our little brother or sister: it's always OK for us to pick on them and beat them up a bit when we're bored or feeling frisky, but nobody else is allowed to, or we absolutely jump to their rescue blindly.
But members of this humble wrestling writers' community, I implore you not to let the recent, poorly conceived attempts at op-ed journalism incite your inner grapplers!
What is the necessary response to these ideas and statements made to upset so many? The concept of "banning" anything in the modern era that is not harmful or fatal to a life (animals included, as we've learned by now) is hateful, close-minded, and just not well-thought through in this day and age.
"Banning" the field of pro wrestling from this website would be no different than, oh I don't know, "banning" books that some find useless or offensive from libraries.
We've covered this before. Think "Fahrenheit 451."
Aside from the obvious argument that the community has its own designation separate from "true" sports as pointed out numerously before my writing this, there seems to be no understanding by anyone who isn't a long-time or die-hard fan that there exists a level of sport and competition in pro wrestling that goes undetected much of the time.
One wonders why anyone who professes not to watch wrestling or enjoy wrestling would feel the need to put down wrestling and its level of "competition"? Very few of us, if any, truly understand the competition involved, fan or not.
Wrestlers are people, men and women, some fans of wrestling and some not. Their struggles to be noticed, to build long careers, to avoid working in uncomfortable environments and to support families is no different than any of us who work "meaningless" jobs for the pay or notoriety.
Their struggles are also no different than the men who spend their prime years working out and practicing skills in attempting to make a pro football team in the summer, or to make a Major League Baseball team in the spring.
In fact, their paths are quite similar in that minor league players of all types must not only perform well (almost) year round but also wait their turns to be called up to the major league level and compete for a roster spot.
This is the intense level of competition aspiring wrestlers face, including veterans, in trying to secure their places within a company.
And unlike the intense competition found in a sport like football, in wrestling there are only two real major league organizations to work for, and not 32.
I'd put a bunch of aspiring wrestlers and their work ethics up against any huddle of Raiders any day, by the way.
It is a level of competition hidden behind a black curtain that goes unseen by people all-too-ready to dismiss pro wrestling for any reason, great or small.
To dismiss the SPORT
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