10 Wrestling Messages Hidden In Plain Sight
1. The Entire Thing
Unless you're watching a match featuring Randy Savage or Diamond Dallas Page, it's likely you're watching the magic - like all great magic - take place in front of your very eyes without seeing it for yourself.
There are several checkpoints in becoming a hardcore wrestling fan. The flashpoint moment this bizarre industry hooks you. The unquenchable thirst to see the matches and angles you haven't had the chance to yet, or the ones you've only heard about. The need to converse, write, read, speak or otherwise engage with others about the product. The learning of real names (Jim Hellwig? Jim? Hellwig?). It's all part of the fun long before you want to know how it's actually done.
Yer Da insisted on telling you how they all rehearsed it backstage anyway. The thick idiot.
Ignoring inelegant booking, the wrestling itself is a f*cking artform and defend it to the hilt if you've got the energy. Not only are the messages passed between wrestlers being done at speed or with as much stealth as to be avoided by thousands of people in attendance, but they're being done to mitigate incredible risk and tell a story with two human bodies.
There are no wires beyond the ones holding up the lighting rig. They're all brave, bold and brilliant. Even Baron Corbin.