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Professional wrestling was real
I've wondered about the audiences at the actual event. I was watching some on TV and there seemed to be people in the audience genuinely and earnestly cheering on fighters, or getting riled up if their favourite was getting beat up.
But the fighting is so obviously fake, as are the personas and the rivalries/grudges. I can understand watching it as a fun spectacle, I guess like monster trucks might be fun? But can you tell me if people actually believe it's real?
It's improv, most of the "results" might be determined before hand, but getting there is up to the wrestlers, and the audience doesn't know where the story is meant to go so can stay invested. The damage is fake but the athletics is very much real.
Oh I can certainly appreciate that much. It's impressive athleticism and I guess I can equate the 'violence' to pantomime. It's just the look on some of the audience's faces that haunts me...