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Re: The fix is in: Rams go to SuperBowl
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Tue, 25 Jan 2000 20:27:21 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera.com^NoMoreSpam^
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I'd say that for pro-wrestling to be an olympic sport, we'd need a bunch
of different matches and the judging would be on the match as a whole
(that is, all participants in the match would be judged together), with
criteria such as: realism, safety, skill in faking injury, excitement
factors, costuming, sideshow effectiveness, etc...
So it would be a match vs. match competition.
This is ON topic because I got some WWF stuff for the kid of one of my
factorees...
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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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