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Professional wrestling was real
I've wondered about the audiences at the actual event. I was watching some on TV and there seemed to be people in the audience genuinely and earnestly cheering on fighters, or getting riled up if their favourite was getting beat up.
But the fighting is so obviously fake, as are the personas and the rivalries/grudges. I can understand watching it as a fun spectacle, I guess like monster trucks might be fun? But can you tell me if people actually believe it's real?
There's probably people that believe it's all 100% real. Wrestlers try never to drop the 'act' so it can be convincing to some people just like soap operas are.
There was a storyline where one of the wrestlers died and then gained psychic powers or maybe was a demon. No one really thought it was real. Maybe like kids did.