Anyone here like Wrestling? Like the WWE or TNA?

[The Doctor]

I personally love it.

My friend Ash got me hooked on it (different Ash, not the one who owns this). He sat me down and we started watching WWE RAW. What got me hooked was when I saw the one and only....from San Antonio, TX...the HeartBreak Kid...SHAWN MICHAELS!!! Watching him wrestle is a thing of beauty.

And then there was last years New Years' Revolution with the Hell in a Cell match which had not only HBK as one of the wrestlers, but also The Champ JOHN CENA. I then found my other favorite wrestler and I got hooked.

I don't endorse it cause, like with most entertainment in the world today, WWE has alot of bad in it.

Who else watches Wrestling? And if you do, who's your favorite wrestler? Are you a WWE watcher or do you prefer TNA (Sting rocks)?

[Tommy]

I prefer UFC.
This stuff is just too fake to enjoy.

[mitsuki lover]

I have watched some in my time,but have to admit the only one I watched on a regular basis was the women's one that used to be on.I think it was called something like GLOW.
*Waits to be attacked by the distaff members of the forum for being sexist*

[The Doctor]

Of course it's fake.

But when I realized it, I thought to myself "it's just like watching a movie then. There's a storyline and everything planned out. Ok then, cool!" So now I see it all as one new storytelling method.

[Mega.EXE]

The only Luchadore that I like is Nacho

[WrestlingOtaku]

*coughs and points at user name*

I absolutely LOVE wrestling. I watch WWE's Smackdown! and would watch TNA and RAW if I had cable (unfortunately I don't). I got hooked by watching the Eddie Guerrero and JBL cage match one night over a friends. I can still remember it, Eddie climbing to the top of the cage and then jumping off Frog Splashing JBL, unfortunately Kurt Angle came in and helped JBL out causing Guerrero to lose. I was hooked for life.

My favorite wrestlers are Undertaker from WWE and Kurt Angle from TNA. Taker can make any wrestler look good, except the Great Khali (which I don't think it's possible to make him a good wrestler) and Angle is one of the greatest technical wrestlers of all time. I also enjoy Chris Benoit (again a great technical wrestler), Chris Jericho (another great techi, starting to see a pattern?), Rey Mysterio, Shawn Michaels (yes, he is great) and JBL (I don't know why I just like the guy, wish he would go back to wrestling).

I don't like Cena to much. His matches are almost predictable, especially the endings. He pulls the same 5 moves to finish a match..... all the time....

[mitsuki lover]

Let's not forget that Kurt Angle is also an Olympic Champion too.
Actually while wrestling IS fake they still have to do a lot of training to keep in shape.And a lot of those injuries ARE real,you hit the mat the wrong way and you
CAN get seriously injured.So put it another way Pro-wrestling=Fake,Pro-wrestling
injuries(for the most part)=Real.

[The Doctor]

Not all the time are the injuries real. Sometimes they're staged for storytelling purposes.

...not this time with the Triple H injury at New Year's Revolution, and the injury Cena got at the RAW episode BEFORE Royal Rumble. Having Triple H out for 6 months isn't smart if it's just for storytelling purposes, since he's one half of DX, so you KNOW it's real. You could tell that Cena was really hurt by watching and listening to the announcers that night. That was NOT planned and they had looks of worry like I've never seen before on RAW.

Kurt Angle is cool, but I like Sting better personally.

[righteous_slave]

I like wrestling in and of itself, but IMHO Vince totally destroyed it in the late 90s. Between the outside the bounds of any taste "attitude" era with an overload of sex, sexuality, foul mouths and just stupid gross junk (Bastion Booger anyone?) and the corporate power constatly being leveraged in storylines, the entertainment value went down the tubes. Top it off with him buying up all the major competition (WCW and ECW) and the official coming out of the closet as I call it, when the industry started admiting it's all scripted and staged instead of trying to maintain a voluntary suspension of disbelief, and wrestling just isn't that entertaining any more. I catch a little bit of the shows here and there, and they spend more time with stage entrances and interviews than with matches. I saw one that should have been an awesome match with Beniot and someone else I forgot now, that lasted all of about eight minutes.

TNA was doing pretty good balancing that old school keep it in the ring mindset, but they seem to be slipping there a bit as well. It is good to see Sting back in action again.

Give me classic action and heels and faces, like the Hulkster, the Hitman, the Ultimate Warrior, Demolition, LOD, Rick Rude, Mr. Perfect, the Four Horsemen, Ric Flair (before he became a parody of himself) and the like.

[rocklobster]

I think the Hart family would object to your calling it fake. After all, if it were fake, Owen Hart would still be alive. He died during a PPV event when he had to literally fly into the ring. That was definitely not staged folks.

[The Doctor]

I only said that SOME of the injuries are staged. Not all.

Does anyone here listen to some of the entrance music for their fav wrestlers?

I love HBK's "Sexy Boy".

[rocklobster]

I have the anthology for WWE
My faves in no particular order:
Federation Era

• No Holds Barred
• I'll Be Your Hero
• Tell Me a Lie
• Sexy Boy
• Dudelove
• The 6 Million Dollor Man (cool evil laugh)
• Mankind's original theme (sounds kinda Star Wars-ish)
  Attitude Era

• Ken Shamrock
• The Mike Tyson version of DX
• The New Age Outlaws
• Jericho (gosh I miss him)
• Undertaker
• The Corporation
• Goldust

Current

• Eric Bishoff
• Hurricane Hughes