re: Adult Wrestling Fans: Help Me Understand Why You Follow This Entertainment Industry

We get a thread every few weeks asking why people watch wrestling. I can"t remember the last thread asking why people watch football. Sounds like football fans are the insecure ones.

She looks like she'd do porn, if she wasn't a wrestler, of course.

I use to love wrestling and stopped following it like I did.. probably in my mid 20s. I don't really watch it anymore.. Unless I am watching tv and there really isn't anything to watch and it is on.. I will check it out.. Get a few good laughs from it. But it's like any other form of entertainment.

If that is what someone enjoys then why do you care? I mentioned this before on here, I use to work with a mechanical engineer whose hobby was going count the cars on trains.

I would think there is more to it than what it sounds, but evidently it was some type of club and him and some other guys new train schedules and would go count cars on trains. That is some weird shite, but who am I to judge? If that's what someone is into then good for them.

It’s live entertainment which I’m a fan of, nothing more or less about it. You watch a play or tv show and see actors act out a story, you watch wrestling and see actors act out a story.

That’s a game of skill where the outcome is uncertain.

Wrestling is scripted.

Pretty simple.

I'm not personally a fan of wrestling, but I do understand the appeal of cheesy, over the top, "poorly done" stuff, so OPs argument about the acting being over the top is invalid. Pretty sure every who's a fan realizes that, and it's probably part of the reason they like it

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Would you watch football if you knew the outcome was already predetermined, no matter what, even though you didn’t know what the predetermined result was?

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Yes. I do it for older games that I couldn't catch live. Or really old throwback games which I am not sure who won during that year.

Also, at some boxing not being pre-determined

Because most people have covered put pretty much all of it I'll add...

Not every wrestling fan loves every type of wrestling. By that I mean that you may have a person who loves WWE and has watched primarily WWE their whole lives. Then you have a person who loves New Japan and swears only by New Japan. Then those that stopped watching once Vince bought WCW because they were NWA/WCW folks. And so on.

My point is there are so many flavors of pro wrestling that trying to nail down a stereotypical wrestling fan is almost impossible. It's a multi-billion dollar industry and while you may think there are outliers who enjoy wrestling and they "live in their mom's basement" or "never get laid" or are "nerds" or whatever you wanna call it, there are some rich arse people with some big time money that shell out a ton to travel to big events like Wrestlemania, Wrestle Kingdom, etc. and buy a ton of merchandise. They may not openly discuss it or may act like they do it "because their kids like it" or whatever, but make no mistake, more people watch than you think.

And all the cool as shite people who think they're badasses for raggin' on wrestling fans, I will tell you, that in this day in age it's pretty weak, old and pathetic to think you're hitting those wrestling fans with some knowledge that they aren't already aware of in the first place. This ain't 1974, we know, it's scripted, move on and find something else to be miserable about because we enjoy what we enjoy. So get over it loser.

tl;dr - Whether you like it, or you don't like it, learn to love it! It's the best thing going today!- Ric Flair

Any sport where a mother names her little boy, "Hacksaw Jim" has to be wonderful to observe. Just think if your mom hugged you and said, "My little Undertaker", or if she from your earliest memory referred to you as, "The Spoiler" and made that mask for you just after birth.


I always wanted my two football sized sons to go into professional wrasslin. I was prepared to get them full anaconda look body suits constructed. I was going to be their manager in a crisp white suit with a Col. Sanders string tie, long shoulder length white hair, a holster on my belt with a Freon can air horn, a cane and a Pig on a leash. We would have been famous.

I had the Serpent squeeze move all worked out.

Wrasslin - beauty against ugliness, good against evil. Buff bodies against flab, Honor and dignity against slovenly trashiness. It is everything we stand for as Americans!



Sadly, they became Doctors and Lawyers and such....