10 Wrestlers Way Too Desperate For Your Approval

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Professional wrestling is an intriguing industry in the sense that it requires people to crave the support of massive numbers of others to achieve tasks that in a non-entertainment environment they would be able to achieve without any support whatsoever. However, given that the best pro wrestlers successfully blend a high amount of their own humanity into characters that are acting out scripted physical melodrama, it's entirely possible that they can take their desperate need for support a bit too far and have it bleed into what either feels like (or actually is) a deep-seated (and totally human) desire to desperately want love, affection and attention overall. There are natural babyface performers on this list whose ability to engender support has left them as fan favorites who in real life may not quite understand how to turn off the babyface fire and turn on the natural human charm. Also, there are young wrestlers here too, who in stumbling out of the gates in their mainstream careers appear to be desperate to want to not fall into disfavor and release from their contracts. As well, there are yet other wrestlers who have blurred the lines of reality with the aid of social media, and in pushing too far have fallen quite short of appearing as anything less than desperate when going back to their already over-taxed and more-than-fully engaged fans and followers for more support. And then there are legends who have seen their lives fall apart, and in looking for one more victory against a monster heel that life for them has become, just seem less than the immortals they once were.
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Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.