Loss
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It's all about intent. The difference is that wrestling intentionally blurs the line between work and shoot, and historically, wrestling has tried to make audiences think it's real. TV dramas and cop shows don't have guys using their gimmick names in public and good guys not traveling with the bad guys. So, a gun confrontation doesn't come off as an entertainment segment to a naive audience, it comes across as a heated rivalry that has gone way too far. Even if an audience isn't fooled by it, it comes across as a desperate attempt to exploit real violence, and even those who aren't fooled by it see that the intent is to make viewers think this really happened, which is not at all the intent of a cop show. Yes, there are a million counters to that argument, and I can probably have a debate with myself on that topic, but I think that's the logic behind that type of complaint. -
The "guys with ridiculous names with no cool nickname" of the late 2000's is way more annoying. I miss wrestler's names being Greg "The Hammer" Valentine or "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. I see what you're saying here, I really do. But I do think they tried to come up with nicknames that just didn't get over, probably because they were trying a little too hard. Some, like "Stone Cold", and to a lesser degree "The Game", are synonymous with the wrestler. Some, like the "Brahma Bull", "The Phenom", etc. never caught on in the same way.
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