10 Problems Only WWE Fans Will Understand

While your friends at school might have grown out of watching pro wrestling on a Saturday morning, early afternoon or evening - your mileage may vary - you stuck to your guns. You knew that this was it for you: movies, books or team sports might snag your attention here and there, but the wrestling was what really moved you.

But it was then that you discovered that your favourite thing in the world would get you amused sidelong looks at best, and make you a laughing stock at worst. Wrestling, of course, is the lowest of low culture, a bastard art form like comic books and pornography and, according to the general public, one equally deserving of scorn and pity.

Whatever your usual temperament, you’ll have grown accustomed to developing a thick skin when it comes to this kind of reaction. You know better, after all: pro wrestling, done right, is the best thing on earth.

Occasionally, despite knowing the inevitable outcome, you’ll try converting a friend or lover to the cause. You might even bring some new casual fans in to your WrestleMania party, attracted by the bright lights, the pyro and the big fight vibe like moths to a flame. Really annoying moths, who laugh or ask stupid questions at the wrong moments and eat all of your snacks.

But you and I both know that, in the long run, it takes a certain kind of person to enjoy half-naked men and women pretending to fight each other… and if your friends don’t understand it, you’ll never be able to explain it.