Why is it a debate on whether WWE is fake or not?

I just watched WWE for the first time. Everything seems like a rehearsed script. Just really big actors basically.

The injuries are exaggerated. Just watch the background talk between them. It's all a play. The commentators must know, unless they just don't care.

It's pretty damn entartaining though, I must admit.

 

I stopped watching a long time ago. It got boring, meaningless and dumber.

 

Was it better before? The commentary seems like their reading it for the first time

 

There is no debate - everyone knows it's fake. Something so blatantly scripted can't be that entertaining. Why not watch real athletes?

 

I only started watching in 2012 and stopped in 2015. Yeah it was better before.

 

I use to think it was awesome when I was 12 but now try to avoid it because I think utterly ridiculous. Having said that I find it to be kind of addictive if I start watching it. I don't even like proper Olympic wrestling, UFC is better imo.

 

It is addictive once you start watching it, no matter how ridiculous it gets.

 

Storyline in wwe is all fake, but believe it or not, wrestling is all real and sometimes even brutal...there was not a safe environment leading to the departure of cm punk..

 

Only wrestling is so boring..some storyline entertainment should also be there..

 

This is what I find interesting about wrestling (though I don't really watch it): The fact that they have other leagues and amateur shows just like other combat sports. It's interesting.

Unlike others, I don't disparage people for watching it. If anything, it's one step closer to reality than a martial arts or boxing movie. They are pulling off real wrestling moves and Brock Lesner really is lifting the 300 lb man over his head and throwing him out of the ring. There is real athleticism involved. I know that most, if not all of them, start off as high school and college wrestlers before getting into the show. They are athletes.

But, I just can't get into it. I watch alot of combat sports already and， One: I know what it really looks like when someone gets punched and so it makes it hard for me to suspend disbelief for these shows. And Two: I can only follow so many combat sports leagues. I'm not gonna make the time for a scripted show.