Most people that know me know that I love wrestling, but besides a couple of girlfriends, they have no idea who much I love and how much I watch/have watched. Someone might bring up wrestling when telling a joke or a weird reference and I jump in and say I've always like it but the thing ends there, nobody has ever asked me much about it because no one gives a shit
But I gotta say, wrestling doesn't have nearly the bad rep it has in the US here in Chile. Like, it's seen as a nerdy thing if you still watch it but it was huge here in the Attitude Era and had a considerable resurgence between 05' and 08', so there's a whole generation that remembers it fondly - and those who didn't watch it, don't really give a damn about it - there's no baggage from decades of being portrayed as a joke or just "fake fighting" even though wrestling had been on TV in Chile since the 60's (and had a couple of "booms", so to speak). I mean, it was never the coolest thing to be a fan of or anything like that, but it certainly isn't as bad as in the US.