IT'S NOT FAKE, IT'S SCRIPTED

Professional wrestling is an art form. An art form based around telling a story to the audience. This is something that many people struggle to comprehend, which is why they label it as fake. As WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart alluded to in the documentary Wrestling With Shadows, the art of wrestling is making it look as if it hurts, when in actuality it doesn't. If it does hurt, something has gone wrong. You should be able to finish a match a little sore, a little bruised, but nothing extreme. No more sore than any other professional athlete. The art form is lost if someone is actually hitting and hurting their opponent.

Professional wrestling falls into its own form of entertainment. As fans of pro wrestling we appreciate the art form and watch it for its unique entertainment purposes, not as an athletic competition. We understand pro wrestlers are simply playing a character to tell a story, much like a character in a movie or TV show. Yet people call professional wrestling fake because it's scripted and the results are pre-determined. To me, this is hypocrisy at its finest and is something that I will never be able to understand.

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