Forgive me if this has been discussed already, but why don't they just make a REAL wrestling league??

[BBG]

I was just talking to my cousin (yes the same favorite cousin I always mention I'm discussing sports with) and we were reminiscing about the good ol days as kids when we used to wrestle each other, played all the wrestling games, and watched that shyt religiously on tv. Then we found out it was all fake and almost instantly hit the Seinfeld:

I abandoned that shyt at like 13 and ain't looked back since. But as I'm thinking about it, literally the only reason I stopped watching is cuz the fights were completely staged. Like I'm cool with the selling of the fights, all the promo cuts and fukkery backstage etc, but why can't the ACTUAL FIGHTS be real?? I mean it can't be the risk involved when the fukkin UFC exists so what the hell? There has to be a good reason and there's enough weirdo TSC brehs to school me on this shyt. I did not put this thread in TSC however because I refuse to go in that section of this forum. I believe it takes a different breed of negro to still be a fan of this fake shyt in their adult years and I just cannot relate. However, if you are a TSC breh, come on in here and speak your piece.


I am aware there are probably lesser known leagues of authentic wrestling, but that shyt is trash. I'm talking about taking the entertainment and flair of the WWE, old WCW, ECW, etc but actually making the fights real. Creating storylines and shyt based on the actual outcomes of real matches as opposed to just staging every damn thing. NFL and NBA do a spectacular job of dramatizing their leagues and making shyt interesting outside of the game itself while still not having to fake shyt, I don't know why wrestling can't do the same.

 

[Ganso Bomb]

the fukkin UFC exists

 

[BBG]

@Ganso Bomb yes but the WWF was around decades before the UFC was ever founded. And the fukkery levels the WWF used to bring was GOAT level, nothing in the UFC comes close except maybe prime McGregor. I'm just confused as to why they thought faking the funk was a better idea than making the shyt real.

 

[CHICAGO]

THATS WHAT MMA IS FOR


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[duncanthetall]

Wrestling is more theater than anything. They’re putting on an extremely athletic performance. You just want the UFC with more drama

 

[FreshAIG]

I don't know if you seen real wrestling matches, but that shyt is boring as fukk lol. nikkas in grapple holds for 2 hours straight. No thanks

 

[315]

Real wrestling is boring to watch

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

Ever been to a real wrestling match?

Zzzzzz....

Would do less than WNBA numbers

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

OP

It was actually real when it first started. They later realized people liked the theater of it. IMO opinion I don't think real wrestling would work. People have to understand it to appreciate it. Just look at UFC fans. Many could careless about the ground game and only interested in seeing knowouts. There are grappling leagues out there but they don't get much attention.

 

[NatiboyB]

They would have done this a long time ago but actual Olympic wrestling isn’t entertaining to watch today. It’s not an easily digestible content type of sport.

 

[BBG]

Wrestling is more theater than anything. They’re putting on an extremely athletic performance. You just want the UFC with more drama

Welp, you got me lmao I used to love when super cac stone cold Steve Austin used to shyt on cacs and style on em, drinking beer and flipping birds like a mad man. Favorite wrestler by far.



And to answer y'all question, no I have never watched a real wrestling match. But now that yall mentioned it i just visualized when boxers clench for a breather but that being pretty much the whole match maybe the fugazi version is the best option.

 

[Primetime]

I don't think the interest is there. At least not in the states.

Hell, the typical track and field star ain't making major bread unless they're in that upper echelon like Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce with the endorsements. The ones in the states that aren't a big name have to work a 9-5 or hope they can get a decent sponsor to cover training expenses. And that's for a sporting event that's seen as "entertaining".

So can actual olympic wrestling attract the type of sponsors and ownership that can provide the pay needed for high school and collegiate wrestlers to treat it like a sustainable profession? Or would they be like Brock Lesnar, Jon Jones, Daniel Cormier, etc and just jump to MMA instead

 

[CW99]

You wanna watch wrasslin then watch gay porn it ends the same anyway

 

[Canada Goose]

WWE stars wrestle multiple times a week. Multiple shoot wrestling matches in a week would be too taxing on the body and CTE would be common...

 

[BBG]

I don't think the interest is there. At least not in the states.

Hell, the typical track and field star ain't making major bread unless they're in that upper echelon like Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce with the endorsements. The ones in the states that aren't a big name have to work a 9-5 or hope they can get a decent sponsor to cover training expenses. And that's for a sporting event that's seen as "entertaining".

So can actual olympic wrestling attract the type of sponsors and ownership that can provide the pay needed for high school and collegiate wrestlers to treat it like a sustainable profession? Or would they be like Brock Lesnar, Jon Jones, Daniel Cormier, etc and just jump to MMA instead

You missing my point though. WWE has proven they have a winning formula with fukkery. I was simply saying why not be able to drum up some drama around actual fights. Olympic wrestling has no fluff, nor does track& field. I'm talking about a league of fukkery involving wrestlers actually beating each other's asses. But like many posters before you mentioned, it doesnt matter how much fukkery surrounds the product, if the actual product is boring af it still won't work. I had no idea actual wrestling was that bad lol cuz the fake shyt was pretty lit, throwing nikkas through tables, climbing ladders for people's elbows n shyt damn the more I think about it it is pretty impossible to actually do that shyt for real lol



@Canada Goose well obviously they wouldn't be able to wrestle that much, it could be weekly piff like the NFL. your point is trash