With all due respect, the average Joe is an idiot. It's not about WWE having mainstream appeal, it's about bdybuilding finding a way to be taken seriously. I think having these clowns on the magazine covers trivializes the sport and takes it even further in the wrong direction than it already is. I think that the bodybuilding/fitness industy needs to be very carefull about it's image and the messages that it is sending to people. Just because fake rasslin' has a mainstream audience doesn't mean that it's a good idea to hitch our wagon to it.
On the plus side I thumbed through the mag tonight and there are some nice pictures of Marzia Prine in there. Giggity.
This may come as a shock to you. But people think EVEN WORSE about bodybuilders than they do about wrestlers. Again, one of the reasons for it is that the perception that bodybuilders DO NOTHING with their muscles, besides flex them. The image of bodybuilding is that its participants are mindless, steroid-using meatheads with muscles that are all show and no go.
Plus, Muscle & Fitness features muscular people from all walks of life to put on their covers. Wrestlers are no exception.
