Comments on: I Don’t Understand WWE. Why Do People Watch It?

By: Jameel Qazi

Jameel Qazi — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 04:00:00 +0000

Yes, it’s just like football..if every football game was fixed and the outcome determined by the league in advance. Wrestling simply makes no sense. Incredibly boring, fixed, fake crap.

By: SonOfThunder

SonOfThunder — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 18:34:00 +0000

The “soap opera for men” trope is outdated and misinformed. As a fellow internet/gaming nerd, I think it would be more accurate to describe WWE in the same vein as a battle anime like DBZ/Bleach/Naruto. But it’s designed to go on indefinitely. Instead of a battle over…some nebulous concept like the fate of the world, it’s presented in the context of a sport, where there’s a never-ending struggle to be the king of the hill and hold the championship title.

It’s somewhere between all of that and a circus performance. It’s definitely a quantity business. They do around 250 live shows a year.

Anything can be mocked and made to sound absurd if you don’t understand it, pick and choose elements, and oversimplify. I could talk about how insane it is for grown men to dress up in plastic suits of armor and throw and kick an oblong ball around, and there’s scantily clad women waving pompoms and dancing for no apparent reason, and before each play they’re yelling nonsense like Omaha, Omaha, Omaha! Blue 42! It sounds like these people should be in straight jackets.

By: Spanky_____

Spanky_____ — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:42:00 +0000

I understand your feelings. I don’t understand the idiocy of it. When you really watch them they barely even “fight”. To me a match just looks like this. They just lay on each other for a moment while flexing their mussels, then jump up again and yell. Then start the whole thing over until someone decides they would rather lay on the floor with a guy on top of him then get back up. At they point the the man on top is declared the winner. Until he turns his back, then the other guy gets mad a tries to beat him up again.
It all looks so silly. I wonder at what point they look back and wonder to them selves why they embarrassed themselves so much just to make some money. Its like selling your soul to the devil. You don’t like it later, but at least your rich, and that makes it better right?