Like many sports, pro wrestling participants (most of them) are very athletic and disciplined – they have to be to do 90% of the physical part.
The action these days, though choreographed, requires great skill, but much of it at the same time is quite cheesy and deserving of lighthearted ridicule.
One of the best things that could happen to the industry was when Vince McMahon finally came clean and admitted the truth about the product. People no longer had to feel embarrassed about watching it because now it was just a TV “show” as opposed to a legit sport.
You either like it or you don’t, but it quashed many of the comments along the lines of, “Why do you watch that garbage? You know it’s all fake anyway.”
I trained for a time with an Indy promotion. These guys acted like it was 1980 – still protecting the “inner working of the business” when around regular people.
We’re past that, now.
Everybody knows the secrets, and I think many folks enjoy the backstage stuff just as much.