“3) started publicly claiming that wrestling is fake”
Always amazes me when people tell me that entirely genius perceptive comment when I mention them I watch wrestling on occasion.
My only response is to ask them if they watch movies. Wrestling is a lot less fake than movies, which causes people to become twitterpated, as proven by Hogan saying he no longer had any original body parts.
Pro wrestling is scripted. If you look at what they do to their bodies, you really can’t call it “fake.” Yeah, I know, semantics, but they’re athletes. A lot more than they used to be 40+ years ago, which was one of Hulk’s selling points to be honest. You still had big doughy guys like Dusty Rhodes who were huge because of their charisma, then here came Hulk with a great combination of microphone skills and those “24-inch pythons.” Between the talk and the look, he was special. (He wasn’t actually very special in the ring, to be frank, when you compare him to other in-ring performers of the ‘80s.)
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