Talking about it
Lets start with talking about a thing that will happen to a lot of people this Monday when they go to work
Average guy1; Sup bish, you do much at the weekend?
Wrestling Fan; Nothing much, I watched the Summerfest last night
Average guy1; Summerfest WTF dawg?!
WF: It's SummerSlam
AG1: Oh Summer Slam, like WWF? You Still watch wrestling? HAHAHAHA What a joke
Cool Guy 1: Yo man, did you watch Summerslam yesterday?
Cool Guy 2: Ya man, did you see Jeff jump of that ladder. It was AWESOME!!!
CG1: I know, and the Undertaker! I'm so glad me and my buddies watched it.
CG2: Same here, that was a great night!
I can make up conversations, too.
So most of us will keep quiet that we're in our 20s and still watch WWE, there may be a few people who will remember when they watched WWF with Austin/Rock/Hogan but the vast majority will think you're a loser.
2) The Media portrayal
Lets ignore the steroid scandal, lets ignore the Benoit incident, the deaths of many young competitors what you got?
You could say the same things about steroids and deaths/injuries when talking about professional football, and it certainly isn't a joke.
So what do you have?
It's a sport that is fake, trying to persuade people it's real. Once the real factor of wrestling has gone, the mythos, what is it? It's a joke.
The majority of wrestling fans know it is fake and still watch the product. Of course wrestling isn't a real sport, it isn't trying to be. It is a form of entertainment different from any other.
Wow, you can post pictures of 2 wresting fans and determine the entire business is a joke? I don't think so.
Need I go in depth about the sterotypical wrestling fan....they're kids, they're grannies, they're fucking losers. Society holds that a wrestling fan is a loser and thus a joke!
Stereotypes aren't always true, I'd think you'd know that. Sure, a lot of wrestlings fans aren't exactly the cool kids, but that doesn't mean all of the are. Even if the majority of wrestling fans aren't that high on the social ladder, so what? How does that make pro wrestling a joke?
BTW, I don't think of grannies when I think of pro wrestling.
Ignoring the stock market thing, which incidentally is just WWE and not the rest of pro wrestling, does money wise come into it? I don't think it does, look at televangelists they make millions a year too, yet most of the world think they're a joke. Money makes no end to it.
Televangelists are just glorified beggars, they are nothing like the wrestling business. The WWE is a Fortune 500 company that people buy stocks in. Tell me how that's not a joke.
Lets look at some of the big celebrities in WWE...how about the Rosie O Donald/Trump match? How about the one where the presidential candidates took the ring? Yeh I think you get the point.
Of course there are stupid things done to make fun of celebrities once and awhile, but the point is that many high profile people have been involved with wrestling over the years.
Yeh that may have been the case that he has had TV shows about him, but he is now seen as a joke. Here's a man in his mid 50s who just looks like a joke. He's as orange as the sun, and has a weird relationship with his daughter. The media like to mock Hogan.
But he does get so much media attention, and why? Because he became a celebrity and sensation by being a pro wrestler. If pro wrestling was such a stupid joke, no one would even know who Hulk Hogan was.
OK take away Triple H who has been built up over a long time, and then Cena who only appears to kids you have the Miz. Do you realise how much reality stars are seen as a joke? To use the Miz as an example is pretty silly, and I think most Americans don't know who cena is...why else did twelve rounds flop?
The Miz could've done anything after being a reality star, who are pretty highly regarded in America, but he chose to pursue pro wrestling. Someone who could've done anything else to become famous decided to go the route of pro wrestling, that sends the message that pro wresting=fame and respect.
Umm, what? How is wrestling like Big Brother at all?
