Is American professional wrestling true or false?

In the spotlight, a big man who looks like King Kong appeared alone. They hold microphones and publicly accuse, attack and abuse each other. After a heated argument, they went into battle. Pushing and tripping are not enough to vent my resentment, and punching and kicking can't solve anything. So, more vicious tricks came in handy, such as scratching your ears, elbowing your knees, biting your head, hitting your back against the shade, locking your throat and hitting your neck, deliberately pulling your opponent to the guardrail, waiting for it to bounce back against the protective rope, and then struggling to throw it down. At this time, either raise your hands and throw them on the ground, or climb the guardrail and jump down, elbow each other's torso, or throw them off the court. One-on-one contests, one-on-two struggles, one-on-three fierce battles and multi-person team battles, sometimes young girls suddenly become accomplices. They played from the field to the field, from the foreground to the background, from the inside out. Fighting with bare hands can't end the feud, so we just use our weapons to fight, using guitars, rattan and bamboo, baseball bats, crowbars, hammers and steel pipe chairs. The whole fighting process was random and arbitrary. A nondescript performance is like a play, a game-oh, my God! This is the so-called American professional wrestling?

The evolution of American professional wrestling into such a model naturally has its profound social background and historical roots. As early as the American immigration era, various styles of boxing and wrestling in western society flowed to the American continent. The comprehensive unarmed combat, greco-Roman wrestling, English wrestling, Italian wrestling and Jewish wrestling in ancient Greece became a fashion with the arrival of immigrants. Because boxing and wrestling are the most important forms of sports and communication. However, the rulers made strict laws to make boxing illegal and brought wrestling into the theater. This helps us understand why professional boxing in the United States is developed under the influence of other countries, while professional wrestling in the United States is infected with drama.

There are three major professional wrestling organizations in the United States: American Wrestling Association (AwA), National Wrestling Federation (NwA) and World Wrestling Federation (wPF), all of which grew up in regional competitions in 1930s. The nature of an organization is determined by enterprise groups, information, finance, operations and employees. Grave robbers often complain that they are lazy and lack imagination. They only sign contracts with wrestlers, regardless of personal interests and development, and do not innovate to cultivate talents and expand technical styles. Junior wrestlers may have 3-6 games a week, and intermediate and advanced wrestlers may have 8- 10 games. Although their incomes are different, they are not fixed.

Professional wrestling provides the possibility for people to vent and indulge their frustrations, but in order to achieve commercial success and win the joy of the audience, professional wrestlers have paid a heavy price. Although the performance is full of false elements, it is not uncommon for some actors to have their ears beaten into chrysanthemums, their ears become deaf, their ribs are broken, their noses collapse and their achilles tendons are torn. There is no doubt that they have become the victims of "violence" and "bloodshed" that Americans admire.

Looking closely at American professional wrestling, its symbolic activity lies not in its own meaning and simple courtyard sound, but in a form of its expressed meaning. It is intuitive and entertaining, and its charm lies in influencing the audience's mood rather than psychology. Therefore, it is regarded as an art, not just a sport. Performers are athletes, but ultimately they don't win by their own sports skills, although this skill is very important. In fact, they can only succeed by relying on their personal artistic talent.

However, some phenomena in professional wrestling performances are untrue. Many martial arts techniques, including boxing, were cited, and the fierce struggle of wrestler Yan was only to arouse people's sense of reality. Someone was killed, which was the result of props; Splash sweat may be saliva; The "foot shock" of stepping on the ground again is to avoid the consequences of serious injury to the opponent. The audience is looking for the illusion between the likeness and the non-likeness, or the stimulation brought by the illusion. Once the performance on the field is weightless, they will boo. Americans have always had a tradition of cheering for losers or laggards. If the situation changes properly, they will accept the change of role. As long as good is rewarded with good and evil with evil, they will not care too much about the means or methods they take. Vivid, funny or almost absurd body expressions show that true talent and knowledge always represent victory, while deception will eventually fail. Life is full of contradictions, hostility and evil, but persistence and dedication will surely overcome deception and cunning.

Professional wrestling is the product of American social and cultural crisis, which has the characteristics of both sports and drama, and is positioned between real sports and real drama. The audience will have a very confused reaction like a sports fan, and a more rational reaction like a theater fan. Although some people scoff at it and even regard it as a "freak", it is still the most desirable and well-designed camouflage in sports.