Anybody Watch Wrestling?

[Bear Paw Jack]

I prefer MMA, with the UFC.

 

[Watertender]

Haven't watched it since we had a black and white television when I was a kid. Whipper Billy Watson, Tony "Cannonball" Parisi, Haystacks Calhoun, The Sheik. Can't remember some of the names but it was fun to watch

 

[caryc]

Not since GLOW back in the 80's. Sally the farmers daughter made my whole world go round at the time!
However, I've long since grown up & moved on to brown eyed brunettes.

I'm also partial to brunettes.

 

[dadstillsurfs]

Not Since Big Time Wrestling from the Cow Palace in San Francisco. Ray Stevens, Pepper Gomez, Kenji Shabuya, Moondog Mayne, Pat Patterson were all favorites. But the I was under 12 in those days and hadn't discovered girls...
Raced a lot of 1/25 scale slot cars in those days also.

 

[T.A. WORKMAN]

Yes ,College & Freestyle and Greco Roman.

 

[caryc]

Some of the costumes that they wear are more than ridiculous. There's one that wears a "beast" mask, Mortos. It covers his whole head and complete with horns and tusk like big teeth and chains hanging from it. Take a look at him. How is one supposed to wrestle him fairly? How do you render blows to his head or face? How much padding does he have under that mask? It's just ridiculous.

 

[lifeofvice]

I mostly just watch old wrestling from the 90's and early 00's, as well as some Japanese stuff. I guarantee that modern wrestling has absolutely nothing to do with children being violent towards one another. That's like blaming boxing for WWII. People have always been and will always be violent towards each other.

 

[caryc]

I mostly just watch old wrestling from the 90's and early 00's, as well as some Japanese stuff. I guarantee that modern wrestling has absolutely nothing to do with children being violent towards one another. That's like blaming boxing for WWII. People have always been and will always be violent towards each other.

Sorry, I don't buy your guarantee for on minute. Children seeing that it is ok to gang up on the winner of a fair match and beat the hell out of them just because he beat your guy is not exactly good for children to see.

Boxing is two people engaging in a fair fight with one winner. No one gangs up on the winner and beats the hell out of him or burns his house down. You obviously haven't seen wrestling as it is now.

 

[lifeofvice]

Sorry, I don't buy your guarantee for on minute. Children seeing that it is ok to gang up on the winner of a fair match and beat the hell out of them just because he beat your guy is not exactly good for children to see.

Boxing is two people engaging in a fair fight with one winner. No one gangs up on the winner and beats the hell out of him or burns his house down. You obviously haven't seen wrestling as it is now.

If a child isn't able to understand that an action on a tv show is fiction, then they are too young to be watching that and the fault lies on the parent.
What about a baseball game, when the benches clear and the whole dugout comes after a pitcher?
What about a movie or tv show that has a group of bullies? These have existed since television has been around. If any child sees that and thinks it's acceptable, they have not been taught well and the fault lies with the parents.
Blaming a piece of entertainment for children behaving poorly is absurd. Do you think Judas Priest is to blame for teen suicide? Do you think school shootings fall entirely on Marilyn Manson and other awful mall metal?

 

[caryc]

If a child isn't able to understand that an action on a tv show is fiction, then they are too young to be watching that and the fault lies on the parent.
What about a baseball game, when the benches clear and the whole dugout comes after a pitcher?
What about a movie or tv show that has a group of bullies? These have existed since television has been around. If any child sees that and thinks it's acceptable, they have not been taught well and the fault lies with the parents.
Blaming a piece of entertainment for children behaving poorly is absurd. Do you think Judas Priest is to blame for teen suicide? Do you think school shootings fall entirely on Marilyn Manson and other awful mall metal?

They get their ideas from somewhere, don't they?

 

[lifeofvice]

I don't really know what you mean by that. I grew up playing violent video games. I watched wrestling and violent movies. My friends and I would wrestle, play tackle football, and box. None of this impacted how I treated others. Blaming a piece of entertainment is a way for parents to wash their hands of any responsibility. Kids should be able to decipher what is acceptable and what isn't, and even if they have learned inappropriate behaviors, it is their parents' responsibility to teach them that it isn't okay. Any form of blaming media, be it wrestling, movies, or video games, is no more than some Tipper Gore-esque virtue signaling censorship

 

[caryc]

I don't really know what you mean by that. I grew up playing violent video games. I watched wrestling and violent movies. My friends and I would wrestle, play tackle football, and box. None of this impacted how I treated others. Blaming a piece of entertainment is a way for parents to wash their hands of any responsibility. Kids should be able to decipher what is acceptable and what isn't, and even if they have learned inappropriate behaviors, it is their parents' responsibility to teach them that it isn't okay. Any form of blaming media, be it wrestling, movies, or video games, is no more than some Tipper Gore-esque virtue signaling censorship

It all depends on how the parents raise their kids, It's up to them to instill in the kids what is right and wrong. If the parents don't do that, as I said, kids get their ideas about what's right or wrong somewhere else. It not that hard to understand.

 

[Johnnu2]

WOW.... this one sure turned to poop in a hurry..... !!!!
J.

 

[Ride1949]

It seems to follow a pattern with some folks.

 

[Jeepnik]

Not all "action on TV" is fictitious. I grew up watching "Boxing at the Olympic". It was a weekly show shot in the Olympic Auditorium in L.A. I think dad considered it a training film.

 

[Fox Mike]

In a word; "NO". If it is wrestling or watching grass grow I'm going with the grass.

 

[JohnL]

I watched professional wrestling as a kid. Haystack Calhoun, The Sheik, and other assorted nuts cases were fun for me.

 

[gnappi]

When I lived in Orlando friends of mine used to go to the arena weekly to watch live wrestling and every once in a while we would join them. You should hear some of the profanity that little old ladies blurt out that's filtered when broadcast to TV.

 

[blume357]

We had a local channel that had it for Augusta Georgia and I watched it... this is the early 70's... seems they lost the Saturday lease at the auditorium in August for a month or so and had to rent the national guard armory in nearby Edgefield and a friend and I decided to go.... I got it... the bad guy would always win on tv but lose at the real show on Saturday night. My friend and I alway pulled for the bad guy.