9 Guilty Pleasures That Wrestling Fans Secretly Love

We all have them...and we should all embrace them!

Wrestling is quite unlike any other form of entertainment, and wrestling fans are quite unlike any other fans on the planet. But I don€™t really need to tell you that €“ you€™re here on this website in your free time trying to find new information about something that you both love and hate in just about equal measures. We know what makes even the most abysmal wrestling great. There is a combination of narrative, athleticism, spectacle, and politics €“ really what isn€™t to love? Even if it€™s a low budget event with maybe a hundred people packed into uncomfortable chairs, there is something so original about wrestling that can€™t really be matched by other forms of entertainment. But as obvious as some of the pleasures of wrestling are, we also have our sly guilty pleasures that we probably feel alone in. These guilty pleasures are completely counterintuitive and contradict every sense of rationalism that we as civilised human beings pride ourselves on having. So we must be weird for having them€right? Fear not humble wrestling fan €“ you are not alone. We might not like to explicitly enunciate these guilty pleasures out loud, but that€™s exactly what I am going to do here. Not to embarrass us, but rather to liberate us! We should be proud and embrace the fact that these esoteric behaviours are what make us, as fans of this bizarre spectacle, so completely and utterly unique.

 
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