Is Wrestling Fake or Real? Some Answers!
79In wrestling the words 'real' and 'fake' are hard to quantify. No professional wrestling is 'fake', if someone hits you they actually hit you, if someone picks you up and throws you to the mat you do hit the canvas, and often quite hard!
Giving and Taking Moves
In pro wrestling its all about control, trusting your opponent and training HARD. When you throw a punch there are various techniques to make it seem more effective but in all you 'pull' the punch ie: as soon as you feel contact you let your arm go a little limp, absorbing most of the impact. When you get slammed to the mat or 'get bumped' (knocked down) you perform a break fall, where you land spreading your weight across the parts of the body that can take impact and minimising the impact on the sensitive areas (lower spine on your back, face & balls on the front). Don't get me wrong though, it still hurts! And it takes a long time to learn how to get it right every time.
Yes, wrestling rings are sprung, but that spring/flexbeam only has between 1/2 & 1 inch flex in it and the ring usually has judo/martial arts padding (absorbs impact but is hard rather than soft) under the canvas, some just have a couple of layers of carpet underlay! The sound the ring makes on impact (wooden boards hitting metal beams) also adds to the impact effect.
And that's just the impact moves; most hold and submission moves are developed from various martial arts & classic wrestling moves, so they can all do legitimate damage if performed in a 'full on' way. However in professional wrestling the aim is to put on a good show rather than genuinely hurt your opponent, so at most your opponent should feel some minor discomfort.
If pro wrestlers did the things they do to actually hurt their opponents there would be a death a day (at least) and the schedule would be more like that of boxers or MMA fighters than, like the worlds top performers do, working 5 days out of 7.
'Selling'
This is where the only real 'acting' comes in. The art of 'selling' is where wrestlers act like a move hurt a lot more than it did. Holding their back, calling out in pain, 'nursing' an area that their opponent has been working on, ect are all parts of making it seem more genuine.
The aim of pro wrestling is to make the audience suspend their belief for a few minutes, and get them behind the good guy, hate the bad guy and get them emotionally involved in the match.
Matches are roughly scripted beforehand, with the booker telling the wrestlers what he wants from the match, whether that be a scripted list of spots detailing the whole match or simply, 'I want you to win, make each other look good'. The wrestlers then make up the rest between them and it is often made up in the ring with wrestlers 'calling' moves to each other as they go.
Training
Training and conditioning is a huge part of a professional wrestlers life. Most wrestlers are in the gym at least every other day and take part in wrestling training sessions as much as possible to keep their edge and expand their range of abilities. The amount of time it takes to train to the level where you can turn pro varies from person to person, but the average time between beginning training and performing in your first show is roughly a year. Some people take to it quite quickly and could be out there in as little as 6 months getting squashed by more established names, others may train solidly for 18 month before being allowed in front of a paying audience.
The one thing to remember about training to become a pro wrestler is that training to become a wrestler HURTS. Once you have been doing it for 6 months week in week out it becomes part and parcel of the whole thing and drops to the back of your mind, but those first few weeks of training be prepared to feel pain. And ache for 3 days after every session. And to pick up the odd light 'injury' (nothing major, just your body complaining about you taking it to the limit). All in all, training to be a professional wrestler is one of those things that you are either suited to or you're not.
Hopefully this has answered most of the questions you have about Professional Wrestling. If you live in the UK and are interested in wrestling training you might want to have a look at my other series of hubs in which I provide information on British wrestling training schoolsregion by region: Northern England, The Midlands, Southern England, Scotland, Wales & Ireland(coming soon).
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I will never be recognized as a real competition or sport. You won't find it at any high school, college or in the Olympic. It is good for a laugh just like the Jackass show.
Erm Frank...hate to break it to you but Wrestling IS infact one of the original Olympic disciplines and high school wrestling is also televised across most states in the US.
But anyways a nice little overview on the realness vs fakeness or wrestling
its not fake
IT SO SO SO REAL
ITS REAl beacause you can see there moves there face hits the ring see for your self.
real
is wwe real
wwe is real its not fake
i lovewwe
Hum...
This is so obvious.......
Can you see its fake?
For example....can you see the SO MANY Coincidences????
Watch it in another point of view and make sure not to listen to the ruddy comentators (their voices look as if it has been recorded later..)
In all the finishing move of atleast all wrestlers , the victims also need to help; eg in 619 the victim needs to get up for the final PIN...why dont you guys understand that the victim ALWAYS get up??? NO one is that mad!!
itts fake ok i understand the moves are real but let me fuckin slap u in the face wwith a chair and c u get back up
Been there, done that ;) And a roadworks sign. And a cookie sheet. It hurts. And a lot of the selling done afterwards isnt put on, you are genuinely laying there thinking 'fuck me that hurt!!' but if you've trained for it you can pull yourself together and get on with the match. There ARE ways of protecting yourself/protecting the guy you're hitting but they never come off looking as good
I saw one match where one had hold the other hair was punching him in the head but he was not punching him in the head he was punching his hand that was holding the other guys hair. fake,rigged and rehearsed and fans of this so called sport are stupid fools.
Whether wrestling is real or not, these guys can still kick the crap out of about 99.9% of everyone on the planet.
damn!! it's so confusing i can't make out whether it's true or not
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Must someone win the other with smack down,while in real fight nothing like smack down.these people are ton old to be foolin people
hi yall out there
i think its ok...
i dont think that the wrestling is rel because if someone will be beaten like this then he will surely die.and it is said that the undertaker has died but if he have died then why did he came back...
Listen guys you all keep saying its fake and this has been going on for years now so let me explain.Ok you see in hell in the cell mtches if you get thrown of the the top there is no way you can fake it.And you might say that the weapons are breakaway so you are saying that the shiny metal on the chairs are fake. So everyone who supports me please knock some sense into the following... bibplov sapkota,and you know I dont even care anymore just hear me out if you think its fake then why do you come visit me and i will slam you through a table and then see how fake it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yeah right you wish you were jhon cena. but i do support that it is real
Fake isnt the right word to use yes its pre determind but thats why its entertainment like any other tv show etc. but the reality is there putting there bodies in danger and if you dont believe me look at injuries in wrestling if its so fake how did triple h rip his quadricep of the bone how did angle suffer his spinal injuries etc just think before you say this sport is fake because in fact i respect these guys more than most other athlets
its complicated
Wrestling is not fake if it's fake hw come they fight in a steel cage it is real because the belt is also real or do they fake the wins too or having injuries on one kneel 5 times
WTF is ITREAL
Wrestling is REAL . I gave this little kid the pedigree and totally kicked his ass took his plastic belt AND FUCKING LAUGHED MY HEAD OFF standing victorious over a the dazed and crying 8 year HAHAHAHAHAHA!! I said. and if you don't like it , I got 2 words for you...SUCK IT!!! thank you for reading my crap
Yes, wrestling is real . It is played on almost every country, if it is not real why is played in many countries? The belts are also real .
Yes, wrestling is real . It is not fake. People who say wrestling is fake,their mind is not working properly. It is played on almost every country, if it is not real why is played in many countries? The belts are also real .
Hey,listen guies, Wrestling is real it is not fake. It is so so so real. I like wrestling &
I love wrestlers . My favourite wrestler is "JOHN CENA"(Never give up).
Its fake.fake wounds.fake hitting actions.its nt a sport but short movie.
wrestling is fake,dumb and gay and so are the people who watch it....watch real combat sports like muay thai,boxing,kickboxing,mma etc...
BeccaHubbardWoods 2 years ago
Great job. I enjoyed your hub very much.