What's the appeal of Wrasslin?

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HEATH VON DOOM

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I've been sooo tempted to start buying shoot DVDs off Kayfabe Commentaries. Watched a really good one with Roddy Piper last week.
I love watching shoot videos. My favorite story has to be the Sid Vicious and Arn Anderson fight. Think it was Vader that told the best story about what happened.
 

Ted Williams' head

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I like the old wacky characters they used to have when I was a kid. Macho Man was my favorite. Snap into a slim jim OH YEAH

 

CursedHand

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I like the old stuff from the 70s and 80s. Me and a buddy will watch it sometimes after a few beers and it has us in tears.
It would take ages to write about all the stuff that makes it so funny. It helps if you watched it as a kid and can remember how you felt about it back then compared with watching it as an adult.
 

Ghost Bro

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Isn't part of it that we now get the "real fight" feeling from MMA, not WWE?

I remember watching WWF as a kid, because I couldn't find fights to watch :D.. boxing was always on too late, and I didn't know how to stream, while wrasslin was on at 6 in the noon and looked fun, and to an 8year old they seemed to really be kicking the shit out of each other (to an extent).

Its also a parody of itself in ways, which makes it fun to watch..with the overreactions/overacting and crazy shit happening.
 

HEATH VON DOOM

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I like the old stuff from the 70s and 80s. Me and a buddy will watch it sometimes after a few beers and it has us in tears.
It would take ages to write about all the stuff that makes it so funny. It helps if you watched it as a kid and can remember how you felt about it back then compared with watching it as an adult.
The matches were so slow back then but as a kid I couldnt get enough. I remember waking up and looking in the paper for Wrestlemania 1 results because it just wasnt that easy to watch back then.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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Just to be clear this is not a troll thread or bait for fans of this sort of entertainment I'm just genuinly curious. We used to have a sub forum on the topic but it didn't see much traffic but members have recently asked for it to come back.

I get wrasslin for a younger audience as I used to be a fan. As a little kid I'd love the bigger than life characters and the moves. As a teen we'd smoke endless amounts of weed and watch Raw on Mondays then Smackdown on Thursday and get all fired up to play WCW vs NWO on the Nintendo 64. Those days were fun but as an adult a can't imagine watching an entire episode of this on TV. I get what FeeO @FeeO calls the embarrassment shivers.... I actually feel awkward watching after a minute.

Recently there was that clip of Josh Barnett doing some sort of Wrasslin stuff in his open workouts and a few people here seemed genuinly impressed, please help me try to understand.
I watched it as a kid (like a lot of people) I got away from it for years, but when I used to work nights, and get home late at night there was nothing on the sports networks except pro wrestling. I just kind of started following again by default. I have a friend both of us married, him with 2 kids, and we get together and watch most of the ppv's.

If you're telling yourself "I'm going to sit down and give it a try" You're going to cringe, I feel that same way when anyone asks me to watch anything. I enjoy the entertainment of the few guys who can cut promos really well, the athletic endeavor that it is, and the element of surprise inherent in every match.
 

regular john

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whats the appeal of those, pictures of motion? I mean, i can see the appeal of them to young kids, but why would anyone above the age of 15 want to watch a movie? Its all fake, so why watch it when you can watch a documentary?
100% agreed IMO grown adults shouldn't watch anything else other than documentaries and The Wire.
 

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The best is when pro wrestling goes wrong, I still say the Shockmaster is one of the funniest things in the history of anything

 

CursedHand

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The matches were so slow back then but as a kid I couldnt get enough. I remember waking up and looking in the paper for Wrestlemania 1 results because it just wasnt that easy to watch back then.
I remember thinking Hulk Hogan was the shit as a kid. But when you watch back as an adult, it cracks me up to see him spitting at dudes, giving people eye and back rakes, petulantly assaulting the smaller and weaker managers (even poor sensational sherri) when they diss him, and choking people with his t-shirt or his bandana; he acts like a complete puke but somehow ended up as this hero to millions of children.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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I remember thinking Hulk Hogan was the shit as a kid. But when you watch back as an adult, it cracks me up to see him spitting at dudes, giving people eye and back rakes, petulantly assaulting the smaller and weaker managers (even poor sensational sherri) when they diss him, and choking people with his t-shirt or his bandana; he acts like a complete puke but somehow ended up as this hero to millions of children.
Justice isn't always pretty friend.
 

HEATH VON DOOM

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I remember thinking Hulk Hogan was the shit as a kid. But when you watch back as an adult, it cracks me up to see him spitting at dudes, giving people eye and back rakes, petulantly assaulting the smaller and weaker managers (even poor sensational sherri) when they diss him, and choking people with his t-shirt or his bandana; he acts like a complete puke but somehow ended up as this hero to millions of children.
Just imagine if the main event of Wrestlemania was Hulk and Mr T against Piper and Cowboy Bob Orton today. The pride fanboys would go crazy over that shit.