The Truth about professional wrestling
What the people want you to think: Professional wrestling is totally fake, and not even a sport. Also all the wrestlers take some kind of steroid or performance enhancer so they look buff. Also the fans are portrayed as these toothless, drooling hicks and rednecks and have absolutely no life whatsoever. Only stupid people watch wrestling and buy the merchandise.
The truth: Ok, for one thing: "I don't wear cowboy boots, I hate the fuckin' rodeo, horses smell like shit to me, and I don't fuck anyone within my own bloodline, by definition I'm not a redneck and god damn it I ain't a fuckin' hick!"1 As for the fake part of wrestling, over the course of time me and one of my best friends, Justin, came up with the 80-20 theory. Now the 80 means that 80% of wrestling is choreographed (notice I said choreographed, not fake) and 20% real. The blood that sometimes pours down the faces of the wrestlers is real (I remember when I was younger, everyone telling me that is was stage blood or even something like tomato sauce). Now in the early to mid 1980's several wrestlers were arrested for steroids, which included taking Vince McMahon to court. Nowadays the WWE and most independent circuits do regular drug testing, and any wrestler that fails it is fined heavily, or more commonly fired. The performance enhance thing came from the fact that a lot of wrestlers have endorsed stuff like YJ Stinger, or Stacker 2, doesn't mean that they use performance enhancers (They do it because it is bling-bling in the bank, if you know what I mean). I can safely say that more than 95% of the wrestler's out there have gained there bulging muscles from years of weight training and exercises. There are millions and millions of wrestling fans across the world, I doubt one could say that they are all stupid. I watch wrestling, and my IQ is 155, far from stupid. Would you call all people that watch football or baseball stupid, NO! Professional wrestling is another sport that the people watch. Calling people that watch professional wrestling stupid would be the equivalent of calling any other sports fan stupid. Oh yeah, we buy the merchandise, because we can!
Final Summation: If you like professional wrestling, welcome to the fold! You join millions of people that watch it with you. If anyone harasses you because of it, give them the one finger salute and depending on their size, beat the hell out of them, or run like hell.
note: The Truth Commission does not advocate giving anyone the finger or beating them up. I guess we could advocate running like hell, I don't see a problem, as long as you don't run into anything.
1. Stevo from SLC Punk!