I think y'all are trying to convince me rasslin's fake.
Good luck. You can't fool me. I know real when I see it.
In the 70s I worked at a TV station that recorded "rasslin" every Thurs afternoon for later broadcast on Saturday.
The promoter, out of Memphis, TN, would come in and set up a ring in the studio. About two hours before the taping began, local wrestling fans would begin lining up outside the studio to come in and be the studio audience. There was no charge for this.
There was a little known wrestler whose name I have long forgotten. He was there every week for awhile and always got the crap beat out of him by "Superstar" Bill Dundee, Jerry Lawler, Tommy Rich, etc. He never, ever won a match. The "good guy" would always leave him bloodied and battered in the middle of the ring or crumpled up on the "hard, concrete floor" as the announcers called it.
One Thurs I was in the men's room washing my hands and he came in. We struck up a conversation and I asked him if it bothered him, showing up every week and loosing. He said, "I'm a Pro Wrestler. As long as the check clears, I don't care what happens in the ring."
Interesting.