Before I start the next chapter of my... sermon, I wanna address what Rohan has to say. I hold nothing against him for the delay as I teetered with it and barely managed to do this as well as my WZCW roleplay for this round. I also have a match to write just to add to the stress. The moral, maybe I should've taken time off at WZCW before signing up here. Let's get to it.
¡Roján!;3854934 said:
Back at the beginning of the Millenium, you'd have been ridiculed for saying this, and understandably so. In a time where wrestlers risked their lives on a daily basis for ECW, professional wrestling was a dangerous profession. Since then, things have change a lot on the MMA side of things and also on the professional wrestling side of things.
Gone are the days of unprotected head shots and sledgehammer's to the head to cause concussions and gone are the days where blood was more common than a punch. Wrestling has cleaned up it's act.
However, wrestling is still dangerous, but why is MMA much more dangerous?
MMA is real. Wrestling is scripted, everyone knows. Moves are planned, and the competitor knows what's to come and how to react. Sure, botches happen that can cause serious injuries, but taking bumps in wrestling isn't a hard as being knocked out unexpectedly in an octagon, is it? Ask this guy:
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First off, unprotected chair shots are not gone. More or less, they are not to the head in WWE to an extent in TNA, but not so anywhere else. Secondly, a chairshot should be the least of your worries when you have a man flying at you from 10 feet in the air crashing and snapping your arm off as poor Wade Barrett can attest to. Furthermore, how is your KO from the video worse than falling off a 20 foot steel cage? Or off a 20 foot ladder through 2 tables? The referee stopped the match after the knockout in your video, but in pro wrestling, if that wasn't the finish and the wrestler had enough to say he wasn't done, they were indeed not done.
The main way for you to win is to knockout someone out. That alone is reason enough to support that MMA is far more dangerous than professional wrestling. These knockouts can cause concussions and long-term mental problems which are very serious.Hell, Sean Vasquez died after succumbing to injuries directly after a match. I think it's pretty obvious everyone would rather be pinned after receiving minimal damage from a 619 than being roundhouse kicked in the mout and breaking your jaw.
A 619 can do you in. Then again, so can a Diving Headbutt. Simple looking, but that was not the case. I understand that in MMA the fighters aim at each other with everything they have, but that does not include the many outside hazards showcased constantly by wrestling. Collapsing announce tables are one as Triple H and Kurt Angle can testify to.
Take Brock Lesnar's recent retirement from the octagon as the perfect example. Despite being the most respected UFC champ of all time, Lesnar gave it up in January due to his injuries he had sustained from MMA in diverculitis and numerous neck problems. And, what sport which takes a significantly less toll on your body did he jump straight back to? That's right, the WWE, professional wrestling's biggest company. Despite having to perform even more dates, Lesnar jumped to the WWE anyway, because WWE still paid him and plus, he wouldn't have to go through all the pain he was going through in MMA. Why? Because professional wrestling is less dangerous than MMA.
And finally and most importantly,
The main objective of MMA is to inflict pain. Ask any MMA fighter what's running through his head in a big fight and he'll answer that to brutalise his opponent in such a way that he can't even stand anymore. Ask a wrestler the same, and he'll claim that it's to steal the show and to try and work through a painless match for both competitors. There's not a simpler way to put it than that people want to hurt you in MMA and that people want to help you in professional wrestling.
Yes, but Brock did not catch his sickness from fighting in MMA. In MMA, his stomach is a bulls-eye. In WWE, it can be ignored but what could save him from botching another Shooting Star Press should he attempt it? The possible source of his neck issues? Probably. What if a planned spot for his match with John Cena at Extreme Rules goes wrong? MMA just had hard punches and kicks. WWE has all sorts of weapons. There are far more chances for things to go awry as I will demonstrate next.
Wrestlers Give Their Life For The Business; Don't Be Shocked That Wrestling Has Taken It By Force
You had to expect this one
How truly deadly can the sports entertainment world be? It's biggest victims sadly can't attest to that, but their tragic, untimely demises in the worst of places have certainly left a bloody stain in our hearts that makes us truly admire what these men and women leave behind just to make us smile. Think about it. They leave their families, homes and such to head on the road to put on a show for a bunch of people that mostly admire them for the way they get hurt. Some have truly paid the final price. Who some of these? Well let's see.
Chris Candido (1972-2005)
Chris Candido won the vacant NWA World Heavyweight Championship after Shane Douglas infamously vacated it to kick off the ECW revolution. He is best known for his stints in ECW and in WWF followed by his highschool sweetheart, Sunny. However, this beloved figure fell in 2005. In the inagural edition of TNA Lockdown, he wrestled with Lance Hoyt versus the team of Apolo and Sonny Siaki. He fractured both his tibia and fibula and dislocated his ankle during the match inside the Six Sides Of Steel and required surgery. However, following said surgery, he collapsed and was rushed back to the hospital. He was diagnosed with pneumonia but despite the doctors draining his lungs, Candido died afterwards. A mere injury caused trouble for him to the point of dying.
Mitsuharu Misawa (1962-2009)
An iconic booker and wrestler from Japan, Misawa was loved by all fans of the Puroresu sub-style. However, his time sadly came in the very ring he loved and helped create. On June 19, 2009 at his own Pro Wrestling Noah, during a tag team match with Go Shiosaki against GHC Tag Team Champions Bison Smith (deceased as well due to heart failures) and Akitoshi Saito , Misawa lost consciousness taking a belly to back suplex from Saito. The cause of death was later speculated in the official police report to have been a cervical spinal cord injury that caused cardiac arrest. However, Misawa's family invoked a Japanese law that requested the police not publicly release the official cause of death. However, since then Japanese promoters have taken a strong grip on regulating their wrestler's and their moves potential danger, further siting just how dangerous the business can really be.
(Partially taken from Wikipedia)
He's not the dead person, but due to lack of info, he'll have to do.
For the unaware The Great Khali, a former World Champion in the WWE, has claimed the life of a fellow pro wrestler. One
Brian Ong died indirectly at the hands of the Punjabi Playboy. During training, Brian and Khali botched a Flapjack. The evaluators told him he needed more practice so they kept on going. This while Brian had a concussion. A second botch did Brian in, costing Khali and All Pro Wrestling $1.3 mil in lawsuits.
"Iron" Mike DiBiase (1923-1969)
The patriarch (via adoption) of the DiBiase wrestling family is another tragic figure lost in the ring. On July 2, 1969 in Lubbock, Texas, DiBiase suffered a fatal heart attack in the ring during a match with Man Mountain Mike. Harley Race, realizing that he was suffering a heart attack, attempted to perform CPR on DiBiase and then rode in the ambulance to the hospital with him. DiBiase was pronounced dead at the hospital.
(Taken from Wikipedia)
We're all familiar with Owen Hart, his family's ties to wrestling and his unfortunate accident. He died at WWF's Over The Edge 1999 PPV under the Blue Blazer gimmick when rappelling down from the rafters. His harness malfunctioned and dropped him from nearly 80 feet high, killing him as he bounced off the top rope missing a turnbuckle by a mere foot. The PPV carried on as the WWF and it's fans were left shaken the rest of the night. A case that shows that there is far more to the dangers pro wrestling presents than mere in-ring blows.
My next and final example may show just how dark and ugly things get. As you know, pro wrestling is an act of give and take. Wrestlers trust their partners to use their maneuvers safely and wisely to perform a solid match. But what happens when that one golden rule that makes pro wrestling what it is is broken? I'll tell you what it does. It can forever cripple a promotion, kill a wrestler and even slander the legal system of an entire country.
Bruiser Brody (1946-1988)
Bruiser Brody along with Abdullah The Butcher and Carlos Colon are cultural icons of Puerto Rican pop culture. They made hardcore wrestling be known in the western world and were based on my home country. Brody himself was major draw wherever he went whether it was with his long-time tag team partner Stan Hansen or by himself. But those who know Stan Hansen know he likes to work stiff. Brody took it a step further by, at times, being completely uncooperative as Lex Luger and Bill Alfonso can testify to. The night was July 16 in 1988 at the town of Bayamon when fellow pro wrestler and booker, Jose Huertas Gonzalez (AKA The Invader) called Brody for a meeting at the showers. Groans were heard and Brody had to be rushed to the hospital when Tony Atlas rushed in to find a bloody Brody with Invader standing with a knife in hand. Brody died while The Invader was at first charged with first-degree murder and then involuntary homicide. Both times citing self-defense. Unfortunately, due to Brody's behavior, The Invader was never sentenced. What followed was the likes of people such as Ric Flair, Macho Man Randy Savage and such, regular fixtures at the time leaving thus giving a crippling low blow to the growing promotion just WWF's Rock and Wrestling was in full gear. Men like Stan Hansen, Terry Funk and Mick Foley, who contemplated working at Capital Sports Promotions/WWC never came and people still cry foul at Puerto Rico's legal system for doing nothing about Brody's murder. Now I ask, can the history of MMA truly match such brutality? I very highly doubt it.
