When people put down the WWF and pro wrestling in general.
For example when a guy like Chris Benoit, who had a dream ever since he was a little kid, and has worked oh so hard to achieve it, going through more pain, obstacles, and adversaries than any "real" athlete or actor ever would.
And after finally making it to the big time, what does he do? He only works about 300 days a year, goes home once, perhaps twice on a good week, and on the rest of the days he's throwing his body around like a ping pong ball. And now, he'll be having neck surgery, and will be out 6+ months.
It's bad enough he has to go through all this, but the public treatment and view of him, and the hundreds of other superstars around the country and world, is so negative and they get no respect from the general population. Even further than that, the negative connotation with him and all the others is made in a seemingly expertise manner, when in reality people have NO IDEA what these guys go through.
Is it "fake"? DUH, it's just as scripted as the next thing on TV or what's playing at the movie theater. But the physicality of it all is as real as it gets. These guys don't have the benefits of film editing or special effects, THEY are the ones that create the stunts. It's all done in front of a live audience, and there's no director, no computer graphics specalist to give the "illusion" that make these guys appear that they're killing each other. No, to make it "appear" credible, they have to basically kill each other. A lot of it is practiced over and over and over again, and more often than not there's not a lot of pain inflicted in a move, but when you take the risks that they take, a mistake is bound to occur at one point or another. Combine that with no actual "off season", which "real athletes" get to heal their injuries, it accumulates, and when their careers are over, their physical condition is pretty much over.
These guys are human beings, just like everyone else. And the nature of human beings is to have some level of consideration towards others. And all that I want, is respect for these guys. Respect for what they did to get to where they are, and repsect for what they go through every night.
You absolutely don't have to enjoy the product or even watch it. Heck, as much as I watch it, I'll be the very first to admit that a lot of WWF programming is stupid, crappy, and often I wonder what drugs these writers are on when writing this stuff. Really, I rarely ever watch a full two hour show, and often record it and FF through it--or I just flip channels in between..But once I do get past all that, there's nothing that beats it.
For example when a guy like Chris Benoit, who had a dream ever since he was a little kid, and has worked oh so hard to achieve it, going through more pain, obstacles, and adversaries than any "real" athlete or actor ever would.
And after finally making it to the big time, what does he do? He only works about 300 days a year, goes home once, perhaps twice on a good week, and on the rest of the days he's throwing his body around like a ping pong ball. And now, he'll be having neck surgery, and will be out 6+ months.
It's bad enough he has to go through all this, but the public treatment and view of him, and the hundreds of other superstars around the country and world, is so negative and they get no respect from the general population. Even further than that, the negative connotation with him and all the others is made in a seemingly expertise manner, when in reality people have NO IDEA what these guys go through.
Is it "fake"? DUH, it's just as scripted as the next thing on TV or what's playing at the movie theater. But the physicality of it all is as real as it gets. These guys don't have the benefits of film editing or special effects, THEY are the ones that create the stunts. It's all done in front of a live audience, and there's no director, no computer graphics specalist to give the "illusion" that make these guys appear that they're killing each other. No, to make it "appear" credible, they have to basically kill each other. A lot of it is practiced over and over and over again, and more often than not there's not a lot of pain inflicted in a move, but when you take the risks that they take, a mistake is bound to occur at one point or another. Combine that with no actual "off season", which "real athletes" get to heal their injuries, it accumulates, and when their careers are over, their physical condition is pretty much over.
These guys are human beings, just like everyone else. And the nature of human beings is to have some level of consideration towards others. And all that I want, is respect for these guys. Respect for what they did to get to where they are, and repsect for what they go through every night.
You absolutely don't have to enjoy the product or even watch it. Heck, as much as I watch it, I'll be the very first to admit that a lot of WWF programming is stupid, crappy, and often I wonder what drugs these writers are on when writing this stuff. Really, I rarely ever watch a full two hour show, and often record it and FF through it--or I just flip channels in between..But once I do get past all that, there's nothing that beats it.