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TheDiceMustRoll
Jul 23, 2018
So I didn't start watching wrestling until 2019, the end of it, and I had a lot of really weird perceptions, so I wanted to share them and see what you guys thought wrestling was, based entirely off cultural osmosis.

- My 4th grade teacher told us that the Rock only became a popular wrestler because he invented the "stomping while you do a move" thing
- Since it's all fake, nobody ever injures themselves
- Wrestlers would never break character under any circumstance, even in a court of law
- (This is gonna be a common one) Wrestling was obviously fake to anyone who wasn't a complete and utter smoothbrain and only dumbdumbs liked it or thought it was good.
- For some reason I thought Vince McMahon actually died in 2007 and didn't find out it was a work until 2016 when I noticed him on a friend's stream of RAW and asked if it was a rerun
- For some reason I thought it was waaaay more fantastical than it actually is, with the Undertaker casting literal spells in every match, people summoning demons, flying (with wires) like a hong kong kung fu film, etc.
- When stone cold stunner'd austin and got arrested in 1997(?) our school banned wrestling talk because it was taken to be a real thing, one kid got sent home for wearing an austin 3:16 shirt and we had a school meeting about how wrestling was full of "criminals". Our principal was very very serious about this.


What did you think wrestling was, before you watched wrestling? Was there ever a point you thought it was real?

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