Entertainment seems a good description of what to expect of the WWE, and it's fascinating to watch whether you're a fan or not. The wrestlers getting the crowd hyped, slamming their opponents, the music, the commentators—you can't deny the excitement every match manages to conjure up.

But this is scripted entertainment, which is totally different. Writers have already decided who wins the fights, there's even a backstage crew and every wrestler seems like a trained bodybuilding actor.

I vividly remember my devastation at discovering that the WWF, as it was called back then, was scripted. Looking closely, I realized The Rock wasn't actually smacking Kurt Angle across the face the way I first thought, and it hurt. I immediately lost all interest, and gone were the days of me jumping off my bed pretending to be a wrestler.

I just couldn't justify it in my mind alongside sports, where I could find an authentic passion to win and will to fight until the end in a bid to be champion. I was about 10 years old, but since then my opinions have changed slightly.

I have come not to disrespect the WWE but actually accept it for what it is, even though I don't watch it anymore. Wrestlers are trained, yes, fights are choreographed, yes. But they still need to be able to improvise, and the dangers of injury are still very real.

I now see wrestlers as trained athletes who put on a hell of show every time they step into the ring. WWE is a multi-million dollar industry that has managed to gain my respect through being able to entertain just as much as most sports, no matter how scripted it is.