According to the dictionary, “Wrestling is a sport in which two opponents struggle hand to hand in order to pin or press each other shoulders’ to the mat or ground, with style, rules, and regulation.” This is why amatuer wrestling is more of a real sport than Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). This excerpt from The World of Wrestling by Roland Barthes contrast the different nature of the two. “Of course, there exists a false wrestling, in which the participants unnecessarily go to great lengths to make a show of a fair fight;this is of no interest. True wrestling, wrongly called amateur wrestling, is performed in second rate halls, where the public spontaneously attunes itself to the spectacular nature of the contest.” For those who don’t know the difference between amatur wrestling and WWE; let me break it down for you. WWE stands for World of Wrestling Entertainment and was created about 30 years ago. It mostly consists of people playing actor roles. They have dramas before matches, and even the wrestling moves are faked. While amatuer wrestling was a sport developed in ancient Greece and was in the first olympics. There’s three types of wrestling, …show more content…
Where people were competing so hard that they made the other wrestler bleed. Most of the time it is a cut mouth or bleeding nose, but every once in awhile it is a broken nose. In some ways WWE is just acting to be real amatuer wrestlers. Even one time at a wrestling match I was at, one of my teammates was wrestling. The person he was against tackled his legs and his head hit my teammates mouth. They stopped the match because my teammate was bleeding. Turns out he got his front tooth knocked out. According to Justin Shaginaw, common injuries in wrestling include sprains, strains, subluxations, lacerations, fractures, concussions, skin infections, and dislocations. WIth dIslocations being responsible ten percent of all reported wrestling