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mr.Curmudgeon:
But, again, as an "outsider" to this entertainment medium, it just seems to me that it's being billed as "wholesome family entertainment"...
I know wrestling, of this sort, is born more out of the carny tradition, as opposed to "sport" wrestling, but it seems to me that the lines have been severely blurred with today's modern format.

And don't get me wrong, I'm a HUGE fan of  "sideshow" Americana, but every time I've caught a glimpse of wrestling lately...I've been sorta' appalled.
Like one time I turned to a WWE show, or something, on television...only to glimpse McMahon's son (I guess) get his face pushed into his father's naked and exposed ass (in front of millions of families; Kids, etc) . Seriously. WTF?   ???

(and not to mention the women's outfits. I'm all for soft-core porn, but as "family entertainment"?)  Anyhow...sorry if anyone feels that this is a derail. I'm just fascinated by how bizarre wrestling seem to be now. And how damn popular it is, as well.

mr.Curmudgeon:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 26, 2007, 10:12:59 am ---Wrestling was always like this, the massive amounts of money in it over the last ten years have just magnified the strangeness.  The weird incidents didn't get much press before that because they were "just rasslers" and there wasn't enough money in the industry for it to matter.

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Speaking of money, some one on FARK made a good point:

"If the WWE called the police after getting weird text messages that led them to suspect something bad had happened, only to go ahead and run a tribute show when they had to be pretty darn sure that it was a murder/suicide and he'd killed his family, well, then they truly are soulless money grubbers."

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on June 26, 2007, 10:23:53 am ---But, again, as an "outsider" to this entertainment medium, it just seems to me that it's being billed as "wholesome family entertainment"...

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WWE is not billed as "wholesome family entertainment" and has not been billed that way for many years now.  It is rated appropriately by the TV ratings bodies.  Raw is 9-11pm monday night and the tamer Smackdown is 8-10pm friday night.

They decided to run the tribute show before that detail was out.  You can't just reverse live television on the fly.  Remember, they had three hours of live television to replace with only a couple of hours' notice.  It will turn out to be embarrassing but doing much of anything else was damn near impossible.  They are very unique in the fact that they run a weekly live two hour program with very little form restriction on it.  Sometimes it gets weird as a result.

mr.Curmudgeon:

--- Quote ---WWE is not billed as "wholesome family entertainment" and has not been billed that way for many years now.  It is rated appropriately by the TV ratings bodies.  Raw is 9-11pm monday night and the tamer Smackdown is 8-10pm friday night.
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Then maybe I'm just getting that feeling from the people who watch this stuff. I mean, I see kids all over the arenas (on TV), and there's WWE toys in every store, and parents feel it's perfectly fine to share in this "sport" as a family.
  :dunno

romperwomb:
Watching Triple H dressed as Kane as he performed necrophilia on Katie Vick's "body" has turned me off of pro wrestling since.   :badmood:

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