10 Popular Wrestling Debates That Need To Die

10. Wrestling Used To “Feel More Real”

Everyone has heard the same old, same old: "Yeah, I used to like wrestling, but it was more believable when I was younger". Funny - could it be that...you were an impressionable child who wasn't so cynical and just enjoyed things as intended without hyper-analysing them?

Sure, this fan is guilty of that too, but to suggest that the biz was "more real" back in the day is laughable. Grappling exchanges between Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior were hardly watertight, and The Undertaker was plonked in a casket before ascending to the heavens (or whatever) at the 1994 Royal Rumble.

Hardly realistic.

Wouldn't everybody be far cheerier if they just accepted wrestling for its silliness, and got lost in the moment without pretending that it should be compared to real sports? The industry has had moments of realness, of course, but 99.9% of it has always been an absurd mix of pantomime, drama and bizarre characters.