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Re: The fix is in: Rams go to SuperBowl
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:06:12 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Adrian Drake writes:
> The WWF (and wrestling in general) isn't rigged, it's predetermined. There's a
> difference. Rigged implies that it was done immorally or illegally.
> Wrestling matches are predetermined so that the storyline is followed, just
> like any other television show.
For that matter, why is pro-wrestling denied the status of "sport" on the
grounds that it's scripted, while Figure Skating and Gymnastics, which use
highly-coreographed routines, are applauded for the same thing?!
Dave!
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| (...) I suspect it's not the scripting that is the problem, it's that in wrestling, somebody knows who is going to win and tells the athletes that information. In your examples, while probably much more heavily scripted than the average wrestling (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: The fix is in: Rams go to SuperBowl
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| (...) The WWF (and wrestling in general) isn't rigged, it's predetermined. There's a difference. Rigged implies that it was done immorally or illegally. Wrestling matches are predetermined so that the storyline is followed, just like any other (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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