On Getting Into Wresting

As of a few weeks ago I started to get into watching professional wrestling because it actually is really interesting.

The people who don’t like/watch it use the words “but it’s fake” like it means something where in actual fact its genuineness is completely irrelevant of its main appeal.  The reason why you watch it is for the personalities of the fighters, the extreme stunts that take place and the story lines that the matches follow.

The charisma on display is so fun to watch because guys getting annoyed at each other and having angry rants at each other is really entertaining. The stunts are cool as well.

The good thing about experiencing a new entertainment medium is that you’ve not seen any of the good stuff. You get to see all of the coolest things all in one go and it feels great!

I got into it through Enless Jess’s series of podcasts talking about Wrestlemania and I would have left it at that if not for the fact that the people I sit next to in maths were talking about Nakamura and we got into a discussion (where I was massively embarrassed due to my lack of knowledge) which really entertained me. So I asked about how to follow WWE, was told to just subscribe to WWE on youtube and watch the videos.

Then that would have been fine but there is one dangerous wrester that might just ruin all of wrestling for me. It’s CM Punk. Not because he is annoying but because he is so good that he makes everyone else look bad. It’s difficult to imagine how someone can be so good on the mic that they ruin my respect for the Rock because I can’t stop referring to him as “Dwayne” in my head with his cynical, biting tone in an instant!

But don’t take it from me, you can watch the clip yourself.

This was one of the best things that got me into wrestling. Whats so good about it is how genuine and real it was, the guy actually thinks these things and it really shows. The CM punk pipebomb was fire and the more context from the rant my friends gives me the better it gets. For example the fact that when he said “his idiotic daughter and son in law” referred to wresters triple H and his wife!

Watching CM Punk feels epic due to his mic drops and insane charisma, he outshines all of the other wresters and completely destroys my respect for them. Why didn’t this guy get ice cream bars? He absolutely deserved them! So being in a CM Punk binge is making everyone else look bad, and you need look no further than someone like Roman Reigns who is the most uncharismatic person and I’m surprised that WWE still promotes him.

It saddens me that Punk left WWE but as a compromise the interviews he gives after his leave are killer. The “make Roman look REALLY strong” lines were hilarious!

To me since wrestling is fake anyway, you may as well make the personalities the most brilliant possible and CM Punk is the ultimate underdog!

The only person who I’ve seen so far in 2018 that could possibly replace him was Nakamura (and of course broken matt) because of the recent AJ styles promo he made after punching him in the nuts. He has that slimy and wicked personality that’s really entertaining so I look forward to see him continue on the way he is! (Bear in mind I hardly know anyone in WWE so take those earlier statements with a pinch of salt)

(The clip that got me into Shinsuke)

Maybe I just like the villains better than the heroes because they don’t care what they say, can piss people off for no reason and come down hard in aggression against people who really don’t deserve it that much. That sort of dynamic is interesting to me and it is what I love.

Also I may as well talk about the fakeness of it. In a CM punk interview years after he left WWE he said that he keeps the same training routine for WWE as he does UFC which is really fighting. That shows that despite it being planned out the pain the wresters inflict on each other is still real because it wouldn’t look realistic if it wasn’t! At the end of the day the wrestlers are still badly beaten up but it’s just planned, but because its planned its often more interesting!

The last addition that I will make which is very personal to me is that getting into wresting is really great because it’s interesting to see Endless Jess’s references. There is a whole bunch of horseshoe finale which is heavily inspired by CM Punks pipe bomb with a lot of the same quotes and mannerisms and it’s brilliant to learn about!