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Is THIS News????? Seriously?????

Dragonfly

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The Undertaker Lost at WrestleMania, and the Wrestling World Is Stunned


I'm just gobsmacked at the idea that adult human beings pay money for this crap.

Can anyone explain to me WTF this is all about?

I'm not sure what I find to be a sadder commentary on stupidity, the popularity of the above tripe, or the popularity of nonsense like Honey Boo-Boo and the Kartrashians....
 
For ABC to report this news without the context that it is an act ruins their credibility.

"Wrestler acting like he was on a winning streak acts like the streak has broken, and the wrestling world does a fine job of acting stunned."
 

And yet it's important enough to you to make a thread.... It's called "Sports Entertainment" it's another soap opera...
 
There has to be a rematch. Or two or three. My god.
 
This is no different from any reality show......they often get mentioned by a network with an interest.
 
My fiance is a HUGE WWE wrestling fan and has been her entire life; therefore I have become at least marginally knowledgeable about the WWE Universe in the last two years. We watched Wrestlemania last night, through their online feed ($9.99 per month) rather than paying $60 for the cable tv version. The 21-0 streak of The Undertaker is a HUGE deal in that world. Considering there have only been 30 (as of last night) Wrestlemania's, an undefeated streak lasting more than two-thirds of that time is a major storyline. Just as the death of JR Ewing was in the tv soap opera world. For the writers of the plotlines to allow that sort of streak is incredibly unusual in the WWE Universe.

What has made it even more "newsworthy" this morning is the fact that Vince McMahon, the owner of WWE came out immediately after the match last night and indicated that the other wrestler (Brock Lesnar) deviated from the script. The Undertaker was SUPPOSED to win the match last night and go to 22-0. This is only the second time in WWF/WWE history that there has been this sort of deviation at a MAJOR Pay-Per View event. The other, a title match between Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart, known as "The Montreal Screw Job" is still talked about among fans of the WWE.

Is this National News? Probably not, but in the Sports Entertainment world it's a MASSIVE story.
 
I know it may not be a big deal to you, but a lot of my friends on Twitter who used to watch WWE as children did get upset about this. When I was younger, Undertaker was always perceived to be the "badass who was undefeated at Wrestlemania". The streak did mean something to me despite the fact that it was just acting. I'll be honest, I did feel like a part of my childhood was destroyed when people started tweeting that he lost. I still remember very well when his Wrestlemania record was just 14-0, then 15-0, 16-0, 17-0, and so on. The fact that he doesn't have a streak anymore really feels out of place. It bothers me.
 

But how do you know that's even true?

It's all fake. Maybe the "deviation" claim is fake to make the "news" even bigger?

When it's all a lie - how can there be any truth to any of it?
 

If that's true, that's funny as hell. I don't watch wrestling but I do know from watching the UFC that Lesnar is a huge douche. He was never that good at MMA, he was just big. Once they put some other fighters in the Octogon that were nearly as big, Lesnar was screwed.
 
Was Undertaker's Loss at Wrestlemania a Mistake? - wafflesatnoon.com

I guess it was just a satire piece, The loss was intended. (Unless you're telling me that Vince came out LIVE on Wrestlemania in front of millions of people, which I didn't watch)
 

How impressive is it really to have a long win streak when it's a forgone conclusion?
 
Dragonfly said:
But how do you know that's even true? It's all fake. Maybe the "deviation" claim is fake to make the "news" even bigger? When it's all a lie - how can there be any truth to any of it?
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The report I had seen this morning, which it appears may not be correct, quoted Vince McMahon directly. It's all "entertainment", one way or the other, so who knows.


If it's true, which it seems there is some question about, it wouldn't surprise me. The 75K fans in the Superdome last night were DEAD SILENT at the end of that match. There was absolutely ZERO cheering for the end of the streak. In fact the only cheering was "Thank you 'Taker" when the Undertaker finally left the ring about 10 minutes after the end of the match. I kind of wonder whether the WWE writers are having second thoughts about their storyline or what.

Robbie Loucks said:
Was Undertaker's Loss at Wrestlemania a Mistake? - wafflesatnoon.com

I guess it was just a satire piece, The loss was intended. (Unless you're telling me that Vince came out LIVE on Wrestlemania in front of millions of people, which I didn't watch)
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Vince did not come out. It will be very interesting to see in the next week or so what the writers decide the "fallout" from the event last night is going to be. None of the 75K fans in the arena were cheering for Lesnar's "victory", and several other storylines last night just went well beyond any sane amount of suspension of disbelief. As much as we all know the WWE is a scripted Reality TV/Soap Opera, and always has been, it's gotten harder and harder to suspend disbelief in the storylines I've seen over the last two years, and it's gotten considerably WORSE in the last six months.
 


I used to be a big fan, I still love The Rock, but my interest has decreased a lot over the years. I don't care if it's fake or not, it's just fun entertainment.
 
I thought Dick the Bruiser was great...when I was 6.
 
X Factor said:
How impressive is it really to have a long win streak when it's a forgone conclusion?
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People get attached to CHARACTERS in fiction. That's why franchises like Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Harry Potter, etc.... become so popular. People get seriously emotionally attached to characters, even when they know what the outcome of the story will be. That is what has kept WWE so popular over the years. My fiance was DEVASTATED when the Undertaker lost last night. Assuming it wasn't an "error", my only guess is that he's retiring from the industry. If not, the WWE writers are going to have to have a lot of dirt to fill in the hole in the plotline that they just created.
 
It's entertainment in the same vein that lip-syncing is entertainment.

Would you pay to go watch the Rolling Stones if you knew the entire sound track as pre-recorded and they were faking the entire thing?

Or even more apples to apples - what if it wasn't even the Rolling Stones faking it? What if it was pre-recorded Rolling Stones, but just a group of guys from down the road doing the fake playing?

Would that be entertainment?
 
americanwoman said:
I used to be a big fan, I still love The Rock, but my interest has decreased a lot over the years. I don't care if it's fake or not, it's just fun entertainment.
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I wasn't allowed to watch it as a child, since my father thought it was utter crap. I've started following it a little in the last two years since I started dating my fiance. We even went to a local event last year. It's interesting entertainment IF you can suspend disbelief enough while still maintaining enough brain cells to follow all the "drama"; which both of us are finding harder and harder to do on almost a weekly basis at this point.
 

For some people it would be. Not for everyone. I find entertainment in strapping on a handgun, shotgun, and/or semi-auto rifle and blasting away at cardboard silhouette targets in mock self-defense scenarios. I find entertaiment in watching guys in 40 lbs of armor beat the crap out of each other with wooden swords. I used to find entretainment in DOING that as well, but my MD no longer allows me to. What entertains any particular person may not be the same as what entertains their neighbor.
 
So Lensar is too sick to MMA but can WWE? Faker, just like I thought.
 
Yes, I can tell you what it's about. It's about the trashing out of our society. It's about stupidity and decadence, and a shallowness which has been pervading for decades now.

Or maybe it's just that nobody minds admitting it anymore.
 
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