Is wrestling fake? Dana White thinks so.

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Dana also said he had a lot of respect for wrestlers. Not sure what the controversy is.

Just the normal outrage competition of twitter.

 

Aye. I'm just amused that it's not just fans, but wrestlers getting annoyed.

 

Anyone in contact with John Stossel? Maybe Austin can slap him a few times.

 

 

Perhaps he is just looking to drum some attention for himself on this "hot topic", but as others have said this is such a non issue.

[pol]

I think getting precious over the term people choose to use to mean "it's not a real competition" makes wrestling fans look really stupid.

[PeteF3]

And that Austin Aries tweet sort of makes me think the same thing about him.

[LariatMMBOPPO]

but as others have said this is such a non issue.

I know it is, that's kinda the point of the topic. Wrestlers and fans still getting up in arms over an innocuous word. Aries literally did the the Internet version of "that's an open hand slap."

[jcmmnx]

Dana White is a jackass and an embarrassment to the UFC regardless of what you think about his comments on wrestling. He routinely bashes his own fighters, and treats them like shit.

[GSR]

Dana White said Phillip Nover was the second coming of Anderson Silva and Georges St.Pierre. I stopped listening to him years ago.

[Jingus]

Maybe my reading comp skills need a refresher but the uproar doesn't seem to over the use of the word fake but rather the implication that wrestling is somehow bullshit a non-contact engagement.

Yeah. "Fake" tends to be the word choice used by people who people who would further elaborate by saying "that shit's all fake, none of those guys are really hurt". And also the word choice used by non-fans who condescendingly assume that the fans still think it's all real.

[Grimmas]

What the heck was the context for this? I can't imagine someone going out and saying this action movie star is fake. Of course they are, but what would be the point? Seems like a silly douchy thing to say.

 

Unless there is good context for it, which there very well could be.

[donsem43]

I wonder what Aries would say if someone replied to him saying the headbutt was real but also sloppy and unprofessional.

[Sean Liska]

What the heck was the context for this? I can't imagine someone going out and saying this action movie star is fake. Of course they are, but what would be the point? Seems like a silly douchy thing to say.

 

Unless there is good context for it, which there very well could be.

 

Someone tweeted something to Dana about WWE PPVs only costing $9.99. Dana will get into fights with literally anyone on Twitter, so he responded by saying that it cost that because it was "fake shit". The thing about Dana is that this wasn't something he put a lot of thought into. He just tweets insults to random people like a 14-year old. He wanted a zinger for this guy.

[elliott]

 

Dana is also a guys name, Parv. Dana Gould is one of the funniest comics around, Dana Andrews was a classic movie actor, Dana Carvey for fucks sake

Suck a dick, no homo

Dipset, remix. Let's go.

 

 

Off topic but...

Hahaha! Never in a million years would I have expected you to be a Cam'ron fan. Even if he is a poet of Shakespearean proportions

 

I actually smoked a blunt with Cam'ron and Jim Jones at a Marriott in Raleigh, NC last year and we talked about 80s WWF the whole time.

[ohtani's jacket]

What I wouldn't give to hear Parv actually rap that.

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What the heck was the context for this? I can't imagine someone going out and saying this action movie star is fake. Of course they are, but what would be the point? Seems like a silly douchy thing to say.

 

Unless there is good context for it, which there very well could be.

 

Someone tweeted something to Dana about WWE PPVs only costing $9.99. Dana will get into fights with literally anyone on Twitter, so he responded by saying that it cost that because it was "fake shit". The thing about Dana is that this wasn't something he put a lot of thought into. He just tweets insults to random people like a 14-year old. He wanted a zinger for this guy.

 

Pretty much this. Although I enjoy Dana's twitter antics, especially him telling frequent Observer Live caller Ed in San Antonio that all he was good for was eating pizza and drinking Mountain Dew and that "Dave Meltzer can't help you now" when he complained about Dana "fat shaming him." And then Ed predictably calling into the very next Observer Live to complain about it.

[LariatMMBOPPO]

 

Maybe my reading comp skills need a refresher but the uproar doesn't seem to over the use of the word fake but rather the implication that wrestling is somehow bullshit a non-contact engagement.

Yeah. "Fake" tends to be the word choice used by people who people who would further elaborate by saying "that shit's all fake, none of those guys are really hurt". And also the word choice used by non-fans who condescendingly assume that the fans still think it's all real.

 

Dana never said it didn't hurt and complimented the wrestlers. People read the word "fake" and saw red. Was it a douche-y thing to say? Probably, but I don't think wrestlers responding by posting pictures of what happens when they accidentally get hurt at work reflects well on them.

[Cap]

Honest to God, up until I just read this thread, I thought Dana White was a woman.

 

Why's he got a woman's name?

This made my night. 100% made it. Laughed out loud in my living room on a wrestling message board. My wife was very impressed.

 

 

Anyway, I don't people got upset about the word fake, it just Dana White's general insistance on being a dick hole to everyone all the time. There is no real confusion about what wrestling is, but White just has to be a jerk about it. That said, yelling at Dana White about being a douchebag on the internet is like yelling at dog for loving you. It is in his soul.