Yesterday WWE performed in front of a sold out crowd in San Juan and both my sons were griping I wouldn’t let them go. It’s only a little over a hundred dollars dad and all my friends are going. My kids attend private school and I send them on a constrained fixed budget. Their friend’s parents are engineers, doctors, bankers…well you got the idea.

My dad used to watch wrestling on TV when I was a young boy and they used the same stupid tag team cheating and things they use today and that was in the 1950’s. I don’t get it and wouldn’t go if it were free. But hey they have something for everyone… buy the pre school kid a stuffed action figure holding a baseball bat wrapped with barbed wire and make them smile! I don’t get it? They have the scantly dressed young girls and that I get but not in the way they are presented.

The plots are so intriguing with the Undertaker burring his brother alive and bashing folks with deadly weapons.

Is this a mentality like slowing down to look at a car wreck or have I missed something? Perhaps an equally intriguing sales/entertainment gimmick could be car wrecks with some really cool injuries? Maybe wrestlers driving cars that wreck and have gruesome injuries would sell even better?

All right wrestling fans you can beat up on me now but please break it down to me at a level I can understand what causes a grown mature parent spend $100+ to take his kids to witness the strange entertainment?

I agree that it's strange entertainment. But, one can say the same about a lot of entertainment diversions that people spend money on. Take NASCAR for example....

If your kids want to go, and if you can afford it, I don't see the harm in it. It's basically theater with a cast of actors who over-act almost as much as the late Yul Brynner and with plots that are put together more carefully than the typical Michael Moore film.

At least with NASCAR (and I am no fan, I've never even seen a race except of channel-flipping spilt-second bits) on has both the interest of actual competition and the technology involved.

I used to watch pro-wrestling in the seventh-grade, I did it because other guys in the class did and it helped with small talk. I'm not so sure it was very entertaining even then.

Now it send shivers down my spine to even think of someone watching it.

Again, like Moore of hate him, but his films are well put together (political documentaries that aren't boring...) and do deal with important subjects, albeit from his point of view.

I'd have to say I I too am pretty much stumped on the popularity of wrestling, if you want to follow a point, poorly-acted story watch a sitcom. At least then you get to laugh too.

My guess, the suppressed attraction to violence many people (myself included, I like action films) have draws them to whatever violent forms of entertainment are available.