Do You Talk About Wrestling With Non-Fans?

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I don't just mean arguments over things like, "That's fake, ya know!" Do you ever bring up the latest goings-on, good or bad, with friends of yours who aren't themselves wrestling fans?

As an example, I keep a good friend of mine in touch with the general goings-on, mostly since he does show a bit of interest and it's nice to have somebody to talk to. Despite not being a fan he seems to like Miz, Morrison, and Kofi from what he's watched of them.

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I do - but its such a fast moving story usually that I just highlight the really interesting stuff.

I sent some friends the Chicks and America video and some stuff Punk did that was funny.

[Andrew is Good]

Sometimes, when speaking I may use analogies, and they involves wrestling sometimes.

[agent817]

Well, an old friend of mine was a non-fan, but not a hater. He didn't have a problem with wrestling but he didn't have an interest in it either. I talked about it with him at times during our high school days. I am sure he still feels the same way now, though I almost never mention it to him when I e-mail him.

[PKO]

Only people who used to fans.

[Alex Shelley]

My friends know I'm a fan, so sometimes I'll bring stuff up.

[Pervy Stone Cold]

Yes I have a friend who visits once in a while. This friend actually knows about my fandom and also the fact that RAW is the flagship show. He is also very averse to all things Katy Perry and came across a guy who does rants about stuff including one of her albums, but who happens to be a regular viewer of WWE RAW as well.

He showed me a site that had a bunch of podcasts of his rants on Raw that I probably can link to but am not going to.

So yeah my friend understands some of the stupid angles that WWE has sometimes, but pro-wrestling isn't his cup of tea at all.

[ben:friendship frog]

Not much, I mention a few things to my Mum because she used to watch with me sometimes when I was younger. I always make fun of her now because she used to have a crush on Kane until he took his mask off, now she's a fan of the Undertaker & Shawn Michaels so I told her when Shawn retired and when Paul Bearer came back and etc.

My Dad has took slight interest in Nexus because the leader was English and he likes to see the Brits doing well. He also recognises the Nexus 'N' any time I wear any of the shirts, armbands or they appear on TV by saying 'It's Netto!'

Other than that I try not to talk about wrestling to non-fans as I know it's something that i'm passionate about that other people might just not get and I know I could bore them for hours with it so it's best not to get me started.

[iRabbit]

All the time. I don't care. They listen sometimes and sometimes they don't


In school mostly all my 10th grade class knows me as the "chick who digs wrestling/WWE"

and whenever I ramble my friends will just smile and sigh "oh Rabbit you and your wrestling"

[@TenaciousBe]

Jan 11, 2011 21:00:28 GMT -5 iRabbit said:

All the time. I don't care. They listen sometimes and sometimes they don't


In school mostly all my 10th grade class knows me as the "chick who digs wrestling/WWE"

and whenever I ramble my friends will just smile and sigh "oh Rabbit you and your wrestling"

I was that guy in high school. lol.

PS - THANK YOU for including "Jr." in your Ted DiBiase mention in your sig. Between that and your pandering for G-Rilla, I declare "you rock." And you DO know that.

[YeahYeahYeahYeahYeah]

Eh, not really. I'm lucky enough to have two really close friends (one of them's actually my roommate, hehe) who are just as into it as I am, so they're usually who I talk about it with, haha.

EDIT: Although, we do babble about it to each other on Facebook, so I guess others ARE subjected to it.

[Johawn]

Just my girlfriend. She knows all about DUSTHTAY RHOOOODESTH BABEH! She doesn't really join me when I watch but she enjoys the funny stuff. And Dusty. I spent a good three hours trying to explain why Dusty was so good, and why you could believe in him. She agreed in the end. I don't think I gave her much choice.

[Beartato]

Just with two friends who used to be fans. I like to just show one matches I think we were awesome or clips of cool things that happened. I made one of them a fan of Daniel Bryan and John Morrison

The other one used to be a full on smark and still is, but he doesn't like it anymore. He continues to post on a wrestling website though, just in the off topic section though since he has friend there. So he knows all the jokes even though he's not interested in the product. So I talk to him more about things like how Matt Hardy is fat and not about what's actually going on in wrestling.

No one else knows I like it.

[The Spelunker!]

All the time. If I'm not using wrestlespeak, I'm actually talking about it to people. I'll happily go over stuff I find interesting for a little bit, even if people aren't particularly interested. I am a jerk.

The most common time is when I am trying to explain Straight Edge to people, hoping that they've seen CM Punk in passing.

[hulkblood]

a lot of my friends used to watch it but dont anymore but i dont mind cos wrestlings my thing and i enjoy being able to watch Raw and Smackdown in peace.

my older brother who got me into wrestling doesnt watch it anymore mainly due to work and family he has no time to watch it.

sorry gonna have a small rant now

but theres a couple of my friends who kinda bug me (im sure a lot of people on here have the same type of friend) y'know out of your group of friends he is the Smartass of the group who thinks hes funny all the time but is really more obnoxious than funny? well i have 2 friends that are like this and sometimes will bust my chops about liking wrestling which 9 times out of 10 i take in my stride cos i can take a joke and its usually all in good fun.

But sometimes they take it a bit too far and then start going from good natured jesting to flat out insulting me with the usual "aw grow up and stop watching that shitty wrestling" but i get a bit annoyed cos they will go on about it for hours and hours but what gets me is they call me immature for watching wrestling yet its ok for them to out to bars and make complete fools of themselves and as result this can lead to them getting into fights i didnt realise thats how a mature person acts!

i should mention though i stopped hanging out with these douches about a year ago.

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

Yes, if only to explain why I like it.

Every now and then there will be a segment memorable enough to show my friends. For example, I've been showing my buddies all of the Bryan & Bateman segments for their sheer memetic hilarity.

I've also sold my buddies on a few wrestlers as being too badass or otherwise too awesome not to love - whether it's the irresistible good looks of KENTA, the acrobatics of Dragon Kid and Evan Bourne, the hard-hitting stylings of Samoa Joe or Awesome Kong, or the sheer win that is MsChif being a microbiologist moonlighting as a wrestler.

[Kitty Shamrocks]

I still do JR impressions for my friends. Enough of them watched at some point to know what it is.

Aside from that, sometimes I'll randomly bring up something that happened. It's usually to talk about how stupid it was, though.

Actually...I do remember my friend marking out when I told him Paul Bearer was back. That was kinda cool.

[Soultastic]

Sometimes with my friends. We talk about things they like that I don't too, so it's no big deal. I do try to talk about funny stuff, though.

[buttersock]

Its hard to talk wrestling with non-fans as all they are exposed to is WWE. I try talk about Mexico and Japan and a lot of them are like, "there's wrestling in Japan and Mexico?". It's rough.

[MolotovMocktail]

Sometimes when I get drunk, I'll slip in a reference to an old angle to make a point about something.