Wrestlers Do Not Fake Characters

When it comes to wrestling, this “emotion” from superheroes are enhanced because wrestlers are real-life people. They are not fake characters, they truly exist. They don’t have super powers, they eat, drink and sleep like all the others. The fact that they are not fake characters, make people even more fascinated to wrestling because the strength, the power, the intense emotion wrestlers convey are the things people feel when they watched superheroes. The fight of wrestlers are intense and extraordinary like the fights of superheroes. Their bodies are like the body of Hercules, and with that body they perform extremely dangerous and violent skills to fascinate the audience.
Yes, wrestling is a nice spectacle that entertains the audiences.
Thus, wrestlers in real life have so much injuries and these injuries are not fake. Through his documentary “Beyond the Mat”, Barry Blaustein shows the other side of the professional wrestlers. The side that audiences don’t know. Even though the moves that wrestlers perform are formed to minimize the damage that wrestlers get, it still cause serious pain to the wrestlers. Furthermore, the chairs, the steel cage and the hammers cannot be fake. Thus, most of the wrestlers have serious injuries. The blood from the wrestlers are not fake. Due to numerous bumps happened throughout the match, wrestlers also have serious damage in their brains. Blaustein shows the case of two hardcore wrestlers, Mick Foley and Terry Funk. Both are legendary wrestlers mainly because of their hardcore performances. They throw their bodies to steel bars, they torch each others face and they hit each other with hammers. Since these are impossible for normal people to endure, people cheered for them. However, as mentioned, they are real people. The injuries they have are not fake. They have family. Their families has to suffer
An article from the website ‘faze’ it discusses whether wrestling has the elements of sports or not. And they agreed that wrestling is clearly a sport. “While they may watch the program in whole or in part for the shenanigans, the action in the ring involves athletics, competition (however unorthodox) and a winner and loser.” Even though they are acting and most of their actions are exaggerated, the movements they show on the canvas ring is real. They hit each other, they jump on to the opponent’s body and the bleeding situations are real. Furthermore, in order to refuse serious injuries, wrestlers go through countless rehearsals with each other. Marvelous spectacle can be only made when two wrestler’s chemistry works well on the ring. Otherwise audiences cannot concentrate because the match itself won’t look like a real fight. This aspect of wrestling is also similar to that of team sports. Without teamwork, fine spectacle cannot be