Capone

It's a simple question and one I ended up asking myself after listening to Robin Williams awesome stand up. He brought up how he finds it funny that people say that they watched Boxing to watch the sport of boxing when really, they watch it to see someone get the ever loving shit beat out of them. We all like competitive fights and all but most of us would not mind someone getting their face punched in by a guy like Tyson in the first round. Hell, Im positive that's why most of us turn to UFC from time to time to see someone get their brain squashed from he outside. All what Mr. Williams had said had just lead to me asking myself.....What do I watch wrestling for?

I mean always love to see dramatic storytelling and great technical wrestling from time to time but what really draws me to a match is just a great ass whipping. Sometimes I often see matches featuring KENTA or a Roderick Strong in a awesome match with this guy and that guy but I often see the same with a match rated the same with a Marafuji or a Bryan Danielson yet it doesn't attract me as much. Why is it? It is simply because although I like seeing twisting and awesome counters and such, I love it more when I see a guy get his chest turned into hamburger, kicked around like a soccer ball, get pimp slapped around worst than Chris Brown on Rhianna, dropped on his head like a stubborn child, kissing a boot that is going a hundred miles per hour towards his face, get spit on so many times like he was a trash can, or seeing some guy get a straight up knee to his face. I watch pro-wrestling to see someone get the shit whipped out of him and the rest like story-telling as well as psychology is just a added bonus.

I think many of us were attracted by something in pro-wrestling to first attract us to it. When seeing a guy like Stone Cold go around and Stunnering everything that breathed immediately grabbed me into the sport but I can''t say the same for all of us. What do you watch wrestling for? The technical brilliance of some competitors, the high-flying, the mic work, the wacky characters, or did it just come down to a great ass beating? What got you into wrestling? Was it guys like Bret that could put on hold for hold classics? Was it guys like HBK who were some fancy ass wrestlers? Was it guys like The Rock who could entertain millions across the world by just his mic work? Maybe it was guys like Austin who was just the meaning of man and who put the beat down on anything that looked at him funny? What was it for you?

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