"pretends to be real", maybe back in the old days (pre 1980s), when wrestlers didn't break "kayfabe". Welcome to the year 2004, it's Sports-ENTERTAINMENT. WWE stands for World Wrestling ENTERTAINMENT. Taking bumps in the ring does hurt and the life of a wrestler is grueling, but Vince McMahon isn't trying to pass off an episode of Monday Night Raw as "real life events". It's a show, just like Friends or NYPD Blue. There are characters and storylines. Wrestlers are performers and their job is to entertain the fans of WWE.
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We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home
Alice in Chains- Nutshell
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