Professional Wrestling as a sport

[wilsonblake556]

Hi there. I'm new to this and I'm wondering if a lot of people treat professional wrestling as a sport. Now forget WWE and TNA. I'm talking about Ring of Honor, Pro Wrestling NOAH and other Japanese promotions.

I treat all of the matches in these promotions as a pure sport. When I watch TNA or WWE I treat it as entertainment. Or 'sports entertainment'. (I hate that word!) lol.

I'm just wondering if anyone else agrees with me on this. If not feel free to speak to me about your opinions.

Cheers, Sean.

 

[Enigma22]

its more entertainment to me... i usually just watch raw anyways...

 

[CenaMark54]

WTF...How is Ring of Honor any different from WWE or TNA?

Anyway, I don't consider pro wrestling a sport. It requires athletism and physical exertion, but it is by no means competitive.

Lets look at a definition of the word sport; "An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively."

Its not competitve and the rules are fake. Dancing with the Stars would be considered more of a sport than Pro wrestling regardless of what type of promotion.

Its strictly entertainment. Lets just say there is a movie about sports. Slap Shot for example; that movie is not a sport. Its just a bunch of guys acting out a script. Sure they are all athletic and most play hockey in real life, but it is not a sport, its a movie. I see wrestling the same way.

 

[chessarmy]

I hate wrestling promotions that try to make wrestling more like a sport. Thats the entire reason why I dont enjoy ROH, sure the matches are amazing but I am a Sports Entertainment fan, I want the storylines and the gimmicks, I think that is what makes wrestling entertaining. Ofcourse, there always is a limit (someone needs to tell Russo that)

 

[excellence of execution]

pro wrestling being entertainment and scripted is what makes it entertaining.if it was a sport in the real sense the matches would be filled with submission holds,it would be boring and dean malenko would have been a multi times world champion.i don't mind pro wrestling as sports entertainment.

 

[JC Punk]

Wrestling is all real EXCEPT that it is scripted. But, they actually get injured and get put through tables.

 

[MJ807]

Wrestling is not a real sport a real sport needs competition. It is sports entertainment though but it is as much of a sport as a daytime soap opera. Yeah there is a lot of physicallity but all of it is predetermined.

 

[Dylanfsd]

Entertainment/Physical sport. Determing on the organization... I would leave it in the entertainment, yes it is physical, but it's like a movie.