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Topic: I noticed something about wrestling today.

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM started this discussion 11 years ago #46,185

When you have all of the flash of LED entrance sets and even LED screens on the ring aprons it distracts from the important part of wrestling, the characters doing battle in the ring.

I noticed that when you have a minimal entrance stage and a basic ring then the focus turns to the characters and their motives during a match.

This is the fundamental part of wrestling. It's suppose to be like superheroes and supervillians doing battle in a sanctioned environment. Even during the more adult-oriented times of wrestling it had a more complex philosophy and psychology that is simply lost today in major promotions such as WWE and TNA.

It's sad knowing that WWE will never return to such old school production besides their one night a year "Old School" specials.

In before some anon says that nobody cares. That is why I posted this. :'-)

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 37 seconds later[^] [v] #609,612

Why are so into a homosexual sport?

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 49 seconds later, 1 minute after the original post[^] [v] #609,613

@previous (B)
Nice shtick.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 7 minutes later, 9 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,616

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
Wrestling is choreographed men hugging men. aka gay as fuck.
Just phony baloney.

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 10 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,619

@previous (C)
You should really expand the shtick more to encompass other works of media. Much like you were doing in that Doctor Who thread a few weeks ago.

Meowth joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 12 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,620

Anonymous C replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 15 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,622

@609,619 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
you mistrake me for someone else.

In case you didn't know, professional wrestling is scripted and WWE scripts have found their way online in recent weeks. The page above shows how a match is split up into “segments.”

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 15 seconds later, 15 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,624

nobody actually watches wrestling for the wrestling, unless you're 8 years old and think it's real, people watch it for the drama

Million Muffin March joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 28 minutes later, 44 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,635

I would sit around and yell at the TV, hurry up and fight you fags

FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 7 minutes later, 51 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,636

@609,616 (C)
Syntax detected.

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 46 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #609,644

@609,624 (E)
Not even the blue collars care about the lame drama nowadays.
Wrestling is now a niche market and that niche market actually watches the moves.

@609,622 (C)
Thanks, Google!
> John Laurinaitis
lol Johnny Ace.

Anonymous E replied with this 11 years ago, 22 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,649

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)

> actually watches the moves

yeah, for the sheer hilarity

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 43 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,654

@previous (E)
Not really, mate.

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,655

I remember watching wrestling when I was about 10. I distinctly remember a commentator having his mind blown because one of the wrestlers had a bruise and it shook me. I realised that no wrestlers ever got bruises so they were not really fighting. I don't know why it took so long to understand wrestling when by that age I knew Santa, the tooth fairy, the invisible man that lives in the sky, and the easter bunny were all stories for young children.

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 13 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,657

@previous (H)
> the invisible man that lives in the sky

*tips fedora*

Anonymous H replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,659

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
Do you believe in the bronze age sky ghost?

Malachite joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,660

@609,613 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
Your constant posting about wrestling is a shtick. Your're the only poster here who cares about your gay sport.

(Edited 16 seconds later.)

Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,663

I think I agree with you. It may unintentionally play into the stereotype that homosexuals are flamboyant or lack substance. It could also distract from the personal celebration of the homosexuality of individual wrestlers.

In essence this is a sport celebrating homosexuality. So yes it is bad to move focus away from the wrestlers.

Anonymous E replied with this 11 years ago, 59 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,667

@609,654 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)

you basically went back on yourself when you said wrestling is now a niche market when in the first post you said how wrestling is all big and flashy now, just because YOU watch it for the moves doesn't mean the rest of the world doesn't just like the theatrics

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 3 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,676

@previous (E)
Not really, the entrance stages are big and flashy, but the audience is getting smaller and niche. WWE is probably the only mainstream company that produces it and it's because they were around since the 1980's which was a time when wrestling was more in the public light. Now you mostly see several independent promotions putting on shows for no more than say 1,000 or 5,000. It's because this new niche demographic views it as an artform instead of a sport.

Anonymous J replied with this 11 years ago, 16 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,680

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
It is understandable how a homosexual sport could be a niche. Most heterosexuals would not find appeal on the heavily homoerotic nature of wrestling.

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 38 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,697

@previous (J)
So then why are more wrestling viewers making the switch to mixed martial arts?

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 53 seconds later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,698

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
Because MMA is even gayer: men who are 95% naked, rubbing their sweaty butts in one another's faces.

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 58 seconds later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,699

@previous (B)
And probably with less racists too.

Anonymous J replied with this 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,726

@609,697 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
It may be, as B crudely put it, that wrestling's gay fans are finding their entertainment elsewhere. I am not sure if MMA is strictly homosexual sport like wrestling is but this would make sense.

Anonymous E replied with this 11 years ago, 5 seconds later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,727

@609,676 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)

saying wwe is niche is like saying pokemon is niche because the craze ended in the 90s

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 4 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,730

@previous (E)
WWE isn't niche. Missed where I said it was mainstream?

Anonymous E replied with this 11 years ago, 4 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,731

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)

so what you're saying is basically irrelevant, you're just complaining that your obscure acrobatics club is taking steps to become more popular

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 5 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,734

@previous (E)
The days of wrestling as a popular sport are over. There maybe minor boom periods, but since its secrets have been revealed and is freely accessed over the Internet. There is no going back. Hopefully, traditional wrestling doesn't die anytime soon since there is history there.

Anonymous E replied with this 11 years ago, 5 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,736

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)

> traditional wrestling

it's still just acting though

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 11 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,738

@609,734 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
> but since its secrets have been revealed

Wot? They had wrestling on TV when TV's were black n white and tiny screens - hummmmm tablets n cell phones are tiny screens.
Anyway wayyyyyyyy back in Dinosaur era of wrestling EVERYONE New it was staged totally fake. Bogus scripted.

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 5 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,741

@previous (Syntax)
Then why were there never any smark fans purposely cheering for the heels (bad guys) when they weren't suppose to?

@609,736 (E)
I was referring to Olympic style wrestling.

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 11 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,745

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
C the thing is about entertainment - there is always some kind of audience for just about anything. People still go to dog fights illegal or not.
I think just once I watched 12 minutes of a soap opera just to see wot the fuss was about and that was from the side lines of the studio at edge of production stage.
Horrid acting yet over they years many a famous actress emerged.

And as to who cheers for whom? Usually its the person on the winning side yet people always have their own fav actor to cheer on.

99% of cowboy indian movies have cowboys winning - Not to many real Indians cheering on the cowboys - Ask me some time to tell the tell of how I got the Indians to win just once in live action.

As a kiddlet age 10 I delivered the LA Times 7 days a week - Crappy job mostly do to having to collect the money back then - But the Times offered free passes to lots of stuff including the roller derby - I found it exciting - Ambulance wood come in to pick up a injured girl - I look in paper next day to find out how she was doing - Nothing in paper - took me about 3 views of roller derby to catch on to it being scripted.

Correction on worst part of the paper job- Being forced to ring door bells for new subscriptions - And delivering in RAIN!!!!!!!!!

(Edited 1 minute later.)

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,747

@previous (Syntax)
So you were personally involved in the production of soap operas?

Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,751

@609,659 (H)
> Do you believe in the bronze age sky ghost?
> bronze age sky ghost

I love this name, but I feel like Canaanite monotheism really got it's start after the bronze age collapse. Yahweh was probably around, but he was then likely a part of some larger pantheon of deities. Maybe a storm god similar to the Hittite's Teshub? (Who slew a dragon!) Much like Ahura Mazda was just one of many gods until the rise of Zoroastrianism, Yahweh really didn't get a chance to do any solo projects until well into the iron age. So maybe iron age sky ghost?

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 5 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,753

@609,747 (B)
Was a VP at MCA/Universal - for development of wot we called Discovision - First laser recording for videos - Look up who owns all the basic patents for any kind of disk recording that uses a laser. Product did Fail but long term the money from patents and licensing makes huge profits - Still puts cash in my wallet AND I did not invent one bit of that technology but it wood not have happened without me at get-go.

So it was access to the many production stages at Universal studios - Best memories were of the end of no bra bans for TV commercials with the first new bra commercial using 34 women who all were 34 B's but all were selected for a different shape - Same cup size to prove that the one bra wood fit all - I forget over the many weeks how many girls were selected for the commercial - maybe 4 or 5? But never will forget all the changing LoL - Closed set but with VP badge no set waz closed to my eyes

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,754

@previous (Syntax)
VP = Vice President??

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 13 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,758

@previous (B)
Yep.
Worst the very very worst part of that job was - Two things - The CEO Founder was fucking mean at times - Yelled at top of lungs - Famous Hollywood guy who twice lost cases b4 the US Supreme court

The 2nd loss was MCA vs Sony Betamax - Lew Wasserman the CEO did not want anyone to tape his vast library of MCA movies - Court decided it was just time delay viewing - Lew said to many an engineer - Y cant I just stamp a movie on Vinyl? 50 consultants said no way never can be done. I said - Have no clue wot the limit for recording is but no how to find out - Not that I actually even did that part of the prelim Scientific work but sure new a Top PhD Science/Math wizz at Hughes R&D who could do that level of Math and Physics -

The other thing was that all VP's had to sit in meeting after reading scripts as final sign off for a movie production - I kept saying I have no clue from a script about any element re making a movie - Still forced to go through that rotten process. Really really really hated that part

Anonymous L joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 4 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,760

@609,619 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)

> You should really expand the shtick more to encompass other works of media. Much like you were doing in that Doctor Who thread a few weeks ago.

why dont you answer the questions instead of acting like a fucking idiot whenever someone brings up the fact that you are boring and stupid

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 8 minutes later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,762

@previous (L)
Sticking up for Cathy for a momento - I remember when Cathy wood ask a question and the answer was one click away with Google.

But it surprises me that Cathy is not clued in to how fake Wrestling is.

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,763

@previous (Syntax)
I've stated numerous times before how wrestling works. So how am I clueless?

@609,760 (L)
Boring and stupid in contrast to... ?

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 35 minutes later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,771

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
I should add this.

What do you think wood happen if Baseball and Football including Football in Eu - IF they were to follow a script. Decide b4 hand who wins loses
Probably a few wood still watch it - Long term it wood collapse

I restate my original reply

> Wrestling is choreographed men hugging men. aka gay as fuck.
> Just phony baloney.

Anonymous L replied with this 11 years ago, 25 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,772

@609,763 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)

> I've stated numerous times before how wrestling works. So how am I clueless?
>
>
> Boring and stupid in contrast to... ?

in contrast to what? you dont need to stand in contrast to something to be boring and stupid

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 15 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,775

@609,771 (Syntax)
Yep, basically what happened to wrestling and actually, didn't soccer have an incident where they found a bunch of games were rigged?

Anonymous M joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 44 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,785

posting in an autism thread

Anonymous E replied with this 11 years ago, 35 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,788

@609,741 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)

> i was referring to olympic style wrestling

no you weren't, stop trying

WSD !m2cp3rR5zw joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,815

Do you find it very erotic when you watch half-naked sweaty muscular men flop around all oily as manly men cheer them on?

Malachite replied with this 11 years ago, 6 minutes later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,821

@previous (WSD !m2cp3rR5zw)
Yes!

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,848

@609,788 (E)
What else could I have meant by "traditional wrestling"?

Not that hard to figure out that Olympic and Catch wrestling came before WWE style wrestling.

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 3 hours later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,892

@609,758 (Syntax)
LOL you were Vice-President of Universal Studios?

FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,894

@previous (B)
of course not. he was vp of some department at universal

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 15 minutes later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,906

@609,892 (B)
There were many many VP's

@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
Well yea sorta - But the dept position had its own title so I often in many jobs carried two titles - Typical was Vice President and Director of Engineering.

Now many VPs at MCA reported to an Executive VP - My fate was not so much that good cause I was stuck reporting to the CEO - I can gripe a lot about that buttttt I did learn a couple of valuable lessons I wood not have gotten otherwise. I also think I failed them in a couple of ways - I should have minored in Chemical Engineering instead of Law - at least for the Laser Disk R&D because in the end it was Chemistry fail and not Electronics Engineering that caused the product to Fail

Anonymous M replied with this 11 years ago, 24 minutes later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,915

@609,892 (B)
He was the lowly AV guy that hooked up a projector and dimmed the lights.

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 18 minutes later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,921

@previous (M)
Sort of like his "satellite engineer" career is actually repairing satellite TVs.

Anonymous H replied with this 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #609,948

@609,751 (K)
Hmmm, iron age sky ghost... I'll take it into consideration

Anonymous E replied with this 11 years ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #609,977

@609,848 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)

unless it's actually IN the olympics or a real competition like boxing then it's scripted, you were too fucking vague in your first post anyway

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #609,978

@previous (E)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling_at_the_Summer_Olympics

What else could "traditional" be referring to when it comes to wrestling though?
None of the scripted stuff existed in ancient times unless they planned out feuds too and determined their outcomes.
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