The Farce Of The Pro Wrestling "Media"

-The Mainstream Media
    Let's face it, we've never been respected by the mainstream media, be it sports or just regular news. ESPN, despite having wrestlers on it's morning shows to increase it's ratings, continually turns a sarcastic eye to our business and then, with a straight face, talks about how Tiger Woods is the one of the best athletes of all time. Anyone who claims a golfer is more of an athlete than a pro wrestler is in a serious need of a reality check. Yes, I know the match results are predetermined, the wrestlers are working together and not in opposition and the program is scripted but to suggest that these athletes (yes I do consider them athletes) are any less aerobically capable than 40 year old men with paunch and an ability to swing a piece of metal precisely (which wrestlers do with ease I might add) is seriously lacking in any concept of logic.
    I've given up on trying to "convert" non-believers of pro wrestling because no one ever wants to listen to reason. The argument is always the same; "It's fake." To which I always respond by saying "Yes but that's inconsequential, that's like going to the Globe Theater and complaining that the actor playing Hamlet is still breathing after he gets stabbed." They'll stare at me blankly and then say "They stomp their feet when they punch." And I die a little bit inside.
    Simply put, the mainstream audience does not want to accept pro wrestling at what it is, they want to ridicule it for what it isn't. No it's not a competitive sport; we've never claimed it is. No the wrestlers aren't trying to injure each other; we've never claimed they have. And yes, the blood comes from either blading (cutting open the forehead with a razorblade) or a capsule, just like in the movies.   
    I've explained these points over and over to people continually but no one seems to understand. They want to compare it to Monday Night Football and UFC as opposed to Cyrano de Bergerac or Heroes. When someone doesn't want to understand something, they won't, it's as simple as that. However the mainstream media and mainstream audience are nothing compared to the cancer that infects our industry from the inside.

-The Wrestling "Media"

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