Should Pro Wresling be called a sport?

[respectmeordye3]

I personally say it should. Maybe back in the older days, not calling it a sport was okay but with all the ridiculous things that pass as sports NOWADAYS. I think Pro Wrestling deserves to be back up on the list of being called a sport.

Look at some of the so-called "sports" they have in the freakin' Olympics!

They got that one where you ski down a mountain and shoot targets at the same time, they got folks who swing back and forth on a bar and do little if anything else and other ridiculous so-called sports.

However none could possibly be more ridiculous than the idiotic so-called sport(who's name ironically escapes me right now) where all you do is wear a slick suit and get pushed down a bobsled run---that's it! There is no actual athletism involved-at least not to my knowledge.

I say if getting pushed down an icy slide in a slippery suit can be called a sport than fake fighting(where you actually move) should be as well.

[Rocky Van Heineken]

Wrestling is more entertainment than it is sport.

[respectmeordye3]

well I wouldn't call sliding down an icy sled in a slippery suit a sport either....

[samachine]

If cheerleading is..

[Hall & Oates+250 IQ=Hulk Down]

I would call it a sport, but calling it a sport when Chris Benoit and King Kong Bundy both excelled makes it kind of difficult to defend.

[leemir]

Ya know a sport doesn't have to be competitive, it can be development & improvement of a physical skill.

[Joekishi]

IT's not a sport, it's a live show.

Not a sport. It's performance art/theatre

We don't call Ballet a sport.

[Kevin Hamilton]

Exactly.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

I've always thought Pro Wrestling should be an Olympic sport. Just have pairs and they wrestle a match and get judge on several categories. There could be singles pairs (group of 2) and tag pairs (group of 4) with both male and female events.

But currently no its not a sport. The wrestlers are athletes but its no more a sport than cheerleading (which is not a sport no matter what anyone says.)

[Rick Mad]

basicboogeynomix said:

IT's not a sport, it's a live show.

Not a sport. It's performance art/theatre

We don't call Ballet a sport.

But a lot of people call cheerleading a sport.

Its a silly argument and it just depends on how you define the word "sport," it really doesn't change what wrestling is or isn't. I personally DO consider it a sport but I can see why other people wouldn't.. its just definitions.

[leemir]

I'm happy if they just call it Wrestling.

[paulonorcatto]

all of those u mentioned are sports, they take a lot of skill to perform and are not chorographed. (not saying that wrestling doesnt btw)

but i did make a thread about wrestling being in the olympics a while back.
if rhythmic gymnatics and figure skating are in the olympics then pro wrestling should be to.

[Johnny Danger (Godz)]

If Nascar is a sport, yes

[leemir]

So if it was in the Olympics would the 2 guys who put on the best match win cause that would totally break kayfabe, 2 guys who were just wrestling each other standing there with their medals as a team, basically saying it was worked & even though we all know it is you still don't do it.

[MolotovMocktail]

Pro wrestling is at least more of a sport than the following:

-Figure Skating
-Gymnastics
-NASCAR
-Cheerleading
-Chess
-Robot Combat
-Spelling Bee (it's shown on ESPN)

[Jake Robert's Dealer!!!]

Yes it should and it should not be called sports entertainment either. Even though it is a sport, it is not a competitive one like football, baseball, or basketball.

My problem is how in the hell is poker and bowling considered sports?

[eDemento2099]

If you can call cheerleading, curling, and (especially) poker can be considered "sports," than wrestling is most certainly a sport - not in the sense that there is competition for a scripted pin, but in the sense that wrestlers compete to get over with the audience by executing awesome displays of athleticism.

(I guess that means as far as women's wrestling in WWE is concerned, no, none of that stuff is a "sport")

[drjayphd (feat. Pitbull)]

molotovmocktail said:

Pro wrestling is at least more of a sport than the following:

-Figure Skating
-Gymnastics
-NASCAR
-Cheerleading
-Chess
-Robot Combat
-Spelling Bee (it's shown on ESPN)

You forgot poker. And I wouldn't call pro wrestling a sport unless it's viewed as a legitimate competition in the same vein as, say, cheerleading or figure skating (or, for that matter, anything that has ever been part of the X Games). Athletes trying to put on the best show that they can. If someone could do that and get it into the Olympics, I'd be impressed.

[2 time pro bowler Fred Dryer]

I think sports entertainment is a fine catagory for it. I wouldn't call it a sport because it's chorographed and not competition. But, IMO, the following aren't really "sports" either

Poker
Horse Racing (a sport for the horse sure, but the jockey?)
Nascar
Hunting

[nostradumbass]

No.