Don't forget the chain wrestling!
People Who Distinguish Between "Wrestling" And "Sports Entertainment" Are Repugnant
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Trill Co$by
Believes in The Shield!
Actually there is a difference between Sports Entertainment and Wrestling. Sports Entertainment is a career that you choose in which you perform an entertainment art form inside of a sporting scenario. There are plenty of sports entertainers around the world that have absolutely nothing to do with wrestling. In fact, some professional sports teams [NFL, NHL, MLB, etc] go out of their way to hire these "Sports Entertainers" so that they can get the crowd hyped for their games. In WWE, that would be the guys like Zack Ryder, John Cena, Paul Heyman, Vickie Guerrero, etc who [although enter the ring] their main purpose is to excite the crowd.
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A wrestler is someone that goes out inside of a ring and performs a choreographed fight scenario. They're out there to actually put on more of a physical performance. People like CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, etc. are wrestlers.
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If that's not clear enough for you, then hope is lost for you.
EXAMPLE
[youtube]YIEDBXUj1dE[/youtube]
A wrestler is someone that goes out inside of a ring and performs a choreographed fight scenario. They're out there to actually put on more of a physical performance. People like CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, etc. are wrestlers.
EXAMPLE
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If that's not clear enough for you, then hope is lost for you.
MrHashasheen
Enjoying Wrestling
Killjoy, I'm not saying its different than wrestling. It's just a different style and product in wrestling. Fanbases in different regions have different expectations of their wrestlers based on the product they enjoyed. Vince learned this back on Black Sunday when he bought out GCW and the Georgia fans turned their backs on him en masse, preferring their traditional rasslin' to his more cartoonish product. WCW's introduction of lucha libre via the cruiserweight division was something not seen before on the American national scene, the same with hardcore wrestling as ECW offered. Lucharesu is a viable definition of the blending of Japanese & Mexican wrestling, no? And i don't think anyone would say that old school British wrestling (World of Sport/Mountevan Committee) resembles anything to what the WWE oes today or in any previous generation.
I differentiate between wrestling (shoot wrestling) and pro wrestling when explaining the difference if a bud of mine calls it fake.
Even that distinction is muddy, because then you get stiff workers, screwjobs and the Brawl For All...
But I do hate the term "sports entertainment". It's "wrestling" and the people who do it are called "wrestlers". Two syllables vs five.
Even that distinction is muddy, because then you get stiff workers, screwjobs and the Brawl For All...
But I do hate the term "sports entertainment". It's "wrestling" and the people who do it are called "wrestlers". Two syllables vs five.
Words cannot describe how stupid this explanation is.
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Ay. It's still wrestling. It's not the genre. It's the company. And the roster. Don't believe me? Watch CMLL, AAA and WWC back to back. None are the same because they have different rosters and different manners of booking. But according to you, they're all "lucha libre" style, right? Of course fans got pissed when WWF took GCW's spot. They wanted to watch GCW. You wouldn't be mad if you turned on the TV to see the NBA and instead got NCAA?
Then what the hell do these guys do?
As these colored texts show, you are walking in circles.
You're the one trying to find a difference between two guys who have the same damn job.
Ay. It's still wrestling. It's not the genre. It's the company. And the roster. Don't believe me? Watch CMLL, AAA and WWC back to back. None are the same because they have different rosters and different manners of booking. But according to you, they're all "lucha libre" style, right? Of course fans got pissed when WWF took GCW's spot. They wanted to watch GCW. You wouldn't be mad if you turned on the TV to see the NBA and instead got NCAA?
Did you read this non-sense before posting it?
Then what the hell do these guys do?
They wrestle. Well Zack also jobs and looks stupid on the internet. But he mainly wrestles.
As these colored texts show, you are walking in circles.
You're the one trying to find a difference between two guys who have the same damn job.
Trill Co$by
Believes in The Shield!
Would you call Vickie Guerrero a wrestler? Or even Paul Heyman, Michael Cole, Justin Roberts, Lilian Garcia?
No. They're Sports Entertainers.
No. They're Sports Entertainers.
Oh Jesus Christ.
Manager.
Commentator.
Announcer.
One who holds the secrets of the fountain of youth. She's clocking 50 in 3 years and still looks hot and young. How's that possible?
But more to the point, how's about you stop looking for the donkey's fifth leg and settle with the simple. After all the only person who uses the term "sports entertainment" is Vince McMahon. NOBODY else refers to WWE with the silly term. Nor the Globetrotters.
Bernkastel
Reaper of Miracles
It's all the same. Sports entertainment/pro wrestling.
Bernkastel
Reaper of Miracles
I want to see real wrestlers like the ones found in ROH and CZW and not like the fake shit found in WWE.
blue_dragon
Dark Match Winner
Why can't it just be both? Why can't a man enjoy both wrestling and the entertainment aspects off it? Why always this discussion that never really goes anywhere is my question.
Vince said he coined the phrase during first mania in order to draw. It's that simple. I guess it's working.
Vince said he coined the phrase during first mania in order to draw. It's that simple. I guess it's working.
