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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 10, 2014 8:35:26 GMT -5
I always hear how WWE has banned the word "wrestling" So what exactly are they doing besides putting me to sleep /: If this is how you feel about the show and you keep watching, you're wasting your own time. |
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Post by rowdy426 on Sept 10, 2014 8:48:51 GMT -5
It's a variety show that just happens to be performed by trained pro wrestlers. I imagine Vince would love to have Cena and Orton open every show in tuxedos, Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show style, with Xavier, Big E and Kofi as the chorus line, because Vince can't help himself. Hosted by Kermit the Frog... |
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Sept 10, 2014 9:21:12 GMT -5
They have actually created an environment where someone calling themselves a wrestler gets a pop. That's pretty God damn sad. |
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Sept 10, 2014 9:24:42 GMT -5
Vince, Dunn, whoever can try and act above it all they want, but yes.
Take out the rasslin& no one would watch the shitty variety show.
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Sept 10, 2014 10:54:01 GMT -5
No, it's an Entertainment show. Vince says it himself - he's not in the wrasslin' business, he's in the entertainment business. Vince does say it himself, and never does he not sound stupid saying it. Wrestling is the form of entertainment he promotes. It is its own unique property not comparable to any other. And he himself holds pretty much a monopoly over it. What he presents today is what wrestling has evolved into. That's really all there is to it. It's like as Lizuka alluded to; if suddenly movies were called something like "visual spectaculars" in lieu of "movies" or "films", that person saying it would be mocked but mostly ignored, because despite their obvious insecurities to use proper terminologies, everyone else still knows and calls it movies. Vince's "No, I'm in the Entertainment business!" blather is and will always be ridiculous. Wrestling, again, is entertainment. But Wrestling is what it is, what it is called, and what it always will be. No one on earth says "Who wants to watch some 'sports entertainment' tonight?" or "Sports entertainment is at the coliseum tonight; lets get some tickets." "What are you watching?" "Umm, just some sports entertainment." Made up, silly buzz speak. |
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Post by Hit Girl on Sept 10, 2014 11:04:53 GMT -5
It's a wrestling show run by people who think it's a variety show.
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Post by madness50 on Sept 10, 2014 12:26:38 GMT -5
The term "sports entertainment" is bullshit in my opinion. It's just a stupid ass phrase Vince made up so he could try to fool people that his product is not professional wrestling. Which is absolutely ridiculous to try and fathom due to the majority of the action taking place in a WRESTLING ring!!! Vince doesn't want to realize that the corny comedy and inane babbling of the Bellas is not riveting the crowd. No one pays money to see talking (at least the majority), they want to see wrestling matches between wrestlers.
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Post by bigjohnsons on Sept 10, 2014 13:40:24 GMT -5
I always hear how WWE has banned the word "wrestling" So what exactly are they doing besides putting me to sleep /: If this is how you feel about the show and you keep watching, you're wasting your own time. I only waste 5 mins watching it so I'll be fine |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 14:19:07 GMT -5
The term "sports entertainment" is bullshit in my opinion. It's just a stupid ass phrase Vince made up so he could try to fool people that his product is not professional wrestling. Which is absolutely ridiculous to try and fathom due to the majority of the action taking place in a WRESTLING ring!!! Vince doesn't want to realize that the corny comedy and inane babbling of the Bellas is not riveting the crowd. No one pays money to see talking (at least the majority), they want to see wrestling matches between wrestlers. It was actually first used for more hideous legal means and not giving his wrestlers more rights by law, which makes it worse than just an annoying phrase. |
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Post by blackmegaman on Sept 10, 2014 14:28:10 GMT -5
I may be wrong but didn't WCW also start calling themselves "Sport Entertainment" as well around 99/00 ?
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Post by salsashark on Sept 10, 2014 14:33:13 GMT -5
I enjoy "sports entertainment" as a term when it used to explain the appeal of wrestling (just as the Harlem Globetrotters are "sports entertainment"), but as an all-out substitute for wrestling, I despise it, just as Divas are never women's wrestlers anymore (Diva is still a dumb and unflattering term), and there are moratoriums on certain in-ring language or pretending things never happened.
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Post by Ken: The Hero of WWE on Sept 10, 2014 16:07:12 GMT -5
It is a wrestling. DUH!
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Post by ________ has left the building on Sept 10, 2014 18:35:25 GMT -5
Who the f*** still use the word "wrasslin" to describe pro wrestling outside of an insulting context? Please don't say people from the South because everywhere I been in the region don't call it wrasslin.
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Post by Andy Martin on Sept 10, 2014 18:39:37 GMT -5
Of course it is.
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Post by mrbananagrabber on Sept 10, 2014 18:44:22 GMT -5
This thing about them not saying "wrestling" is little more than myth now. OK, they don't go to the ridiculous levels TNA did with their "Wrestling Matters" slogans, but I'd best the word wrestle, in one way shape or form, is said every week. Cole says it all the time, and he has Vince shouting into his ear the whole time.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Sept 11, 2014 6:29:09 GMT -5
Who the f*** still use the word "wrasslin" to describe pro wrestling outside of an insulting context? Please don't say people from the South because everywhere I been in the region don't call it wrasslin. I sometimes say it interchangeably with wrestling, just in a tongue in cheek manner. |
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Post by DjZonk on Sept 11, 2014 6:53:43 GMT -5
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Post by ________ has left the building on Sept 11, 2014 7:03:06 GMT -5
Who the f*** still use the word "wrasslin" to describe pro wrestling outside of an insulting context? Please don't say people from the South because everywhere I been in the region don't call it wrasslin. I sometimes say it interchangeably with wrestling, just in a tongue in cheek manner. That's one way that some say it. I live in the Tennessee Valley area with some of the strongest drawls in the Southeast and they may butcher words but can say wrestling correctly. When I lived in Florida and Texas, the same. Whenever I heard wrasslin was when someone was trying to an asshole about people liking pro wrestling while constantly talking about UFC. "Hyuk Hyuk, youse gonna watch sum wrasslin? You know its gay?" Which I reply "Are you going to watch some sweaty men rolling around the mat in tiny shorts while in a cage?". |
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Post by Amazing Kitsune on Sept 11, 2014 9:42:51 GMT -5
I sometimes say it interchangeably with wrestling, just in a tongue in cheek manner. That's one way that some say it. I live in the Tennessee Valley area with some of the strongest drawls in the Southeast and they may butcher words but can say wrestling correctly. When I lived in Florida and Texas, the same. Whenever I heard wrasslin was when someone was trying to an asshole about people liking pro wrestling while constantly talking about UFC. "Hyuk Hyuk, youse gonna watch sum wrasslin? You know its gay?" Which I reply "Are you going to watch some sweaty men rolling around the mat in tiny shorts while in a cage?". I've heard rasslin' quite often in the South--said it myself a lot when I was younger. It's just the way the Southern accent messes with the word sometimes. Nothing wrong with it. Though it's becoming more standard for it to be said as wrestlin' instead of rasslin'. |
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