Please don’t just tell me because wrestling is fake because a quick Google search on wrestler’s injuries and you’ll see that it’s definitely not fake all the time and is very dangerous.
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More established wrestlers whose career span decades have “paid their dues” and don’t work a lot of shows. The Undertaker was on a handful of PPV’s and Raw/Smackdown every year but rarely did house shoes.
Also for the older generation of wrestlers it may not be by choice. A lot of these guys didn’t make a lot of money, or at least didn’t save much, and don’t feel they have much in the way of marketable skills or desire to learn a new profession at 45 or 50.
You see guys from the 80s and early 90s banging it out at small independent shows on the regular. Many will tell you it’s because they love it but I met a few guys in the 00s who basically said “it’s this or landscaping at 50”
* But the answer *is* because it’s fake.
* The moves are rehearsed and the wrestlers are working together to make the impact from these moves much less intense.
* In actual sports the players have to use a lot more energy because they have to react to what the other players are doing.
* In American Football for example, the opposing players are trying their hardest to get you down onto the ground and you’re trying your hardest to out-run or overpower them.
* In wrestling it’s the exact opposite, both wrestlers are working together to make a move happen.
It’s because it’s fake lol, simple as that.
When done properly, there should be minimal injury to each wrestler, and while they can get injured if something is done improperly or by accident, the goal is for both guys to be able to walk out and go home with relatively minimal injury.
The physical exertion is real, but there is little to no actual attempt to injure the other wrestler.
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