Stunner Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 I think more people (more specifically males) are wrestling fans than aren't, and most of the "you do know it's fake?" pricks are really fighting with an innate adoration of it. The amount of times in secondary school I was met with this question, and then following my response they'd begin a diatribe that would look something like "I hate wrestling, it's so gay. Except The Undertaker, he looks pretty cool, and remember that time he had a match with Mankind and threw him off the cell? That was pretty good, it was probably fake though. And The Rock was pretty funny, especially when it was him and Chris Jericho calling Stephanie McMahon names when she ran ECW. I didn't mind Ken Shamrock either because at least he had a legit fighting background, kind of the same with Steve Blackman. It's just gay now, except Brock Lesnar, he's pretty cool. But how can you even watch it?" etc., etc. Â And I can definitely relate to the annoying fans. Me and a mate went to WWE Raw at the O2 last April. The sheer amount of fully grown men walking around with title belts on their shoulders or waists was rather disturbing (actual wrestlers excepted, obviously). At one point I walked past one guy strutting around with a replica WWE title on his shoulder and Rey Mysterio mask on his face. Worst of all, as I walked past there was a brief moment where we shared eye contact. He wore an expression of "Aren't you impressed with my title belt and my lucha mask?". The only thing that impressed me was that he had evaded the funny farm for this long. Â Then, for the duration of the show I was stuck with a drunken Irishman who continually told me such gripping tales as "Kobe Bryant was booked to win Money in the Bank at WrestleMania" and "I saw Brock Lesnar walking into the arena". Thanks, I think your mate with the title belt and the mask is waiting for you downstairs. Â But yeah, I went wildly off topic. I don't exactly "hide" it, but I can't remember the last time I openly discussed it either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted August 10, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted August 10, 2012 I think more people (more specifically males) are wrestling fans than aren't, and most of the "you do know it's fake?" pricks are really fighting with an innate adoration of it. Nah, I dont agree with that at all. I think the general opinion is that its absolutely shit and a step down from Big Brother 4. And they are probably right, since a lot of wrestling fans dont enjoy it anymore, so why should anyone else get it? My Dad (who will watch for a few seconds if its on, probably due to seeing it for so many years as I grew up) was speaking about Impact to me the other week. He was waiting for Going For Gold to come on and he said "I saw that Sting" (he always has to say 'That' for every wrestler. Fuck knows why) "on telly the other week and a load of blokes gave him a kicking. If a load of blokes jumped you like that in real life he'd be dead". Stuff like that is the general opinion. The first thought in peoples heads is to question how stupid wrestling is, because if you don't get it, it is an insane thing to get your head around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stunner Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 I think more people (more specifically males) are wrestling fans than aren't, and most of the "you do know it's fake?" pricks are really fighting with an innate adoration of it. Nah, I dont agree with that at all. I think the general opinion is that its absolutely shit and a step down from Big Brother 4. And they are probably right, since a lot of wrestling fans dont enjoy it anymore, so why should anyone else get it? My Dad (who will watch for a few seconds if its on, probably due to seeing it for so many years as I grew up) was speaking about Impact to me the other week. He was waiting for Going For Gold to come on and he said "I saw that Sting" (he always has to say 'That' for every wrestler. Fuck knows why) "on telly the other week and a load of blokes gave him a kicking. If a load of blokes jumped you like that in real life he'd be dead". Stuff like that is the general opinion. The first thought in peoples heads is to question how stupid wrestling is, because if you don't get it, it is an insane thing to get your head around. Â Yeah I guess you're probably right. Certainly when I was a teenager it seemed that many of the boys in my class seemed to be battling with a secret enjoyment of WWE, although I guess when you're 14 a lot of young lads still probably are attracted to it deep down, especially when I'm now 22 so we were 8/9/10 at the height of the Attitude era. I remember one particular occasion when I asked a fellow unashamed wrestling fan in my class if he could recall the name of the move where a wrestler would jump and kick his opponent on the back of the head; two other people nearby turned round and answered "enzuigiri" before making their exuses ("I think I heard it somewhere..."), that genuinely happened! Â My dad's another; he will talk to me like I'm an idiot because I like wrestling, and then only recently decided to tell me that he was in fact a regular attendee back in the 1970's and spent about an hour telling me about anyone who was anyone in 1970's British wrestling. Â I suppose it was different eras, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningBeard Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 I suppose I'm quite lucky that my big brother, two closest friends and most of the guys I work with are still quite into it so there's no real stigma for me. The only person I know that gives me shit about watching it is a manager at work who used to like it but now spanks himself over UFC instead. Just the usual bollocks about it being "all that fake, gay shite" Â I'll take the piss out of my mum for watching that Finding Bigfoot nonsense on Discovery Channel and then she'll take the piss out of me for watching wrestling. Suppose I can't really argue with her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 ....I hate wrestling fans.... Â I really liked this post. While I dont agree with everything there, and have never had the misfortune to meet too many such people, I agree with a lot of what you are saying. Â NEWM summed it up for me. I know my love of Nash, TNA and Hogan aren't going to bear me well in a conversation with the sort of person who wears a CM Punk T-shirt in public. If you move to a new workplace, there's always that tense moment when you think you might have spotted someone else who watches, and you're not sure what to do about it. If they DO, they'll probably be the sort of fan I hate, and if they DON'T, then you've accidentally outed yourself as someone who watches men in pants. So you try and drop a few wrestling-related terms randomly into a conversation, see what happens. Â At the last place I worked, there was a guy whose nickname was Triple H. Turns out he's not into wrestling at all, but I only found that out at the cost of plenty of general light-hearted mockery. Quite often people say "I used to watch it when I was younger". They'll be alright to talk to about it, as they'll have just enjoyed it as a show, rather than srs bsns. Â As regards fans at a wrestling show, I remember at a WWF house show I went to years ago, two chaps came dressed as Hogan and Flair respectively, and arrived in the arena to plenty of fanfare. And why not? Wrestling is pageantry, it's a spectacle, and I thought that was a pretty cool way of having fun at an event. It was all the smelly cunts dressed as Paul Heyman I objected to, the sort who sit behind you and critique the match as it's on, usually to their son or another smelly cunt. Â Someone was talking about the homo-erotic covers of Powerslam yesterday, and that's also true of forums like this. I've tended to turn sigs off here since starting my new job, as explaining pictures of mostly naked men on your screen is never going to end well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK Kat Von D Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 I don't really give a fuck what other people think. I wear my ECW tshirt and CM Punk BITW one to work if I fancy it. I'll talk about it openly to customers and explain the Undertaker and Kane aren't really brothers etc. If I get a cancellation I have been known to stick wrestling on the computer and watch it. When I am tattooing people they never disagree with me because they don't want me to hurt them/fuck up their tattoo (not that I would but its still common sense not to piss someone off in that position.) Â My friends take the piss out of me for it, but I take the piss out of pop punk, computers, cars, doctor who and whatever else they are interested in. My Dad calls it pantomime on steroids, so I take the piss when he is watching boxing. The girlfriend thinks its cool and will watch the big matches with with me and gets quite excited over it. I got her a CM Punk figure for her birthday (along with a load of other stuff) and she carries it everywhere in her bag which I think is pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 I'm not really one for masking my opinion to suit others, not Gladstone Small nor any other hateful types. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 so I take the piss when he is watching boxing. Â What Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 I'm not really one for masking my opinion to suit others, not Gladstone Small nor any other hateful types.  Yeah, fuck Gladstone Small, that Illuminati bitch. Behind the facade of an amiable porn reviewer and father of 10 lies the cold heart of a lizard overlord. His opinions as posted on here are coded with subliminal messaging that forces us all to chant the Ritual of the Secret Grove in our sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Nice to see that you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted August 10, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted August 10, 2012 I went to Smackdown earlier this year on my own (because my only mate who likes wrestling is currently living in the States) and encountered many of the cunts NEWM mentioned. When I sat down the guy next to me started chatting about how shit Cena is, how Punk is better than all the steriod pumped guys, how we need the Attitude era back and all that cliche smarky bollocks. When I told him that the main reason I was there was because I wanted to see Mark Henry he looked like he was going to puke in his mouth. He then told me that Justin Gabriel is a future World Champion and a better wrestler than Cena. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 i once got the typical "you realise it's fake right? why watch something that isn't real?" bollocks off a friend and my responce was "wait a minute, aint you the person who wrote to the BBC to complain about a storyline on Eastenders?" it shut him up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningBeard Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 It's the people that hear you talking to your mates and just assume it's okay for them to jump in on the conversation that bug me. I was at ICW So's Yer Maw and I mentioned to my friends that Johnny Moss was a tank and that I'd like to see how he'd get on over in TNA or WWE. The fella next to me takes it upon himself to tell me how fucking amazing Mossy and Prince Devitt both are. He goes on for about 5/10 minutes all the while there's a match going on that I'd much rather be giving my full attention to instead of politely listening to this bollocks. Then his really odd girlfriend (which was surprising that he had a girlfriend because I was convinced he was a blatant virgin/chronic masturbator) tried to start chatting with me about which of the ICW women Wolfgang was shagging. Couldn't take anymore after that. Made my excuse I needed a drink and when we got back from the bar we purposely stood on the opposite side of the ring from them. Â I mean I've got no problem with people being friendly and having a bit of a laugh with me, but fuck off and let me watch the match though, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK Kat Von D Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 so I take the piss when he is watching boxing. Â What Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobystag Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 so I take the piss when he is watching boxing. Â What Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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