Hardcore isnt about blood, barbed wire and tables. It was always and will always be about a competitor giving everything they have physically, mentally and emotionally in their match. - Tommy Dreamer According to the 19th Century French poet Charles Baudelaire, everything is worthy of art. Logically, this includes the scripted sport of professional wrestling, as well as its deranged (and quite possibly inbred) cousin, hardcore wrestling. For some bizarre reason, it is still fashionable within wrestling circles to criticize hardcore wrestling. To these doubters, hardcore was wrestling without science, wrestling without substance and, worst of all, it was wrestling without skill. Today, no matter how many hardcore wrestlers become World Champions, no matter how many hardcore wrestlers get inducted into halls of fame and no matter how many hardcore wrestlers remain big money draws long after any passing fad would have ended, the naysayers are still saying nay. For that is all that they will ever say. Hardcore fans, however, prefer to think of it simply as wrestling with the volume turned up, with the passion and intensity pushed right to the surface, with everything going past boiling point. Hardcore wrestling hurts to watch and it hurts to do, but so does anything in life thats worth doing. Hardcore was immediate, bloody and brutal. Just what the doctor warned you about. So tape up your fists, grab that kendo stick and follow me to the dance...
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