@Ebon
"First off, wrestling isn't "fake". It's rigged. Subtle but important difference. You try getting dropped six feet onto your back 400 times a year before you brand it "fake"."
Then what's to stop the WWE from eliminating the 'storylines' & 'bookers' BS from such, then make it an actual competition? Does professional Boxing require 'storylines'? Greco-Roman Wrestling (as that seen in the Olympics)? Sumo has great theatre, but is decided on the strength, techniques & skills of the individual rikishi.
Boxing's PPV sales are in rude health, so the excuse of 'Entertainment' is no longer justifiable.
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Luke Cambell's Gold medal-winning bout in the 2012 London Olympics was watched by millions (especially by we in Hull, where Luke comes from), and that wasn't PPV. Nor was the fact that it wasn't pre-arranged, contrived & pre-decided make it any the less entertaining.
Would it kill the inbred trailer-trash out there, if their 'Redneck Pantomime' was no longer a 'Pantomime', but a REAL competition? Sure, have the steroidal muscle marys throw each other about, and be histrionical drama queens, just make it so that it hasn't been pre-decided, re. the winner of each bout. (Otherwise, why not just announce over the P.A./on the big screens who wins, before the wrestlers appear in the auditorium, never mind the ring itself...? Aye, there's the rub. Not prepared to do that eh, therefore what's the point of the exercise, other than to pander to the manchild wish-fulfillments of ADHD-afflicted trailer-trash. If other sports are real and by definition are equally entertaining [otherwise nobody would watch such], then...!)
They tried that once, in 1919. And Baseball was nearly destroyed as a sport in the US, as a result of the World Series 'Fix'.
