MTV Real Life Wrestling

[Guest razazteca]

anybody catch these shows that are currently being shown today, Friday 5th of July? I had mixed emotions about these "documentorys", at first I am extremely mad at MTV for re-enforcing the 2 worst stereotypes that the main press spread about Pro Wrestling, which are that its white trash hurting themselves in the backyards and that women are just sex toys.

 

In the special about the Backyard wanna be wrestlers who believe that by blading or doing fancy moves they will somehow make it to the big time just like their hero Mick Foley. MTV did have Mick Foley do some commentary on the backyard wrestling fad, which to his credit he did not condone it, and explained that there is a reason why he retired at 35 yrs old and it took 11yrs of hard work just to make it to the big time. I think the worst part of this show was when they had a child that was barely 12 yrs old by the name of Mr Saturday Night wrestle a high school kid taking sick bumps and attempting high spots. What is worst is that the kids parents even condoned this behavior, even to the extent of the father giving the kid some nice comment like "Mr Saturday Night is having fun doing those crazy moves". Somebody should called the Social Services because that kids health is some serious danger, luckly at the end of the they said he quit wrestling.

 

In the female wrestling True Life, the MTV crew does a story on a woman that promotes glorified cat fights on the internet, selling tapes at $35 for a match. Its basically 2 women in bikinis groping each other and grappling on the mat in hopes that they lose the tops or if a breast falls out. This is image of women just rolling around on the mat does nothing but promote softcore porn and the image that women are just sex objects. When the general public see this the will expect that all women in pro wrestling are just eye candy.....which is a sad truth in WWE, hell this years Tough Enough winners are just Vince McMahon's toys for his midlife crisis, then there is the TNN Divas special!!!!

 

So in closing the MTV Real Life specials does nothing but hurt pro wrestling in the long run, since the general public will and should frown on this dark side of pro wrestling as MTV has promoted as such.

[Guest KingOfOldSchool]

I think the Backyard Wrestling version was doing it's best to educate people about it, and show the dangers of BW. But the flipside was that the kids were hyped about only being on MTV, and they got their 15 minutes of fame; the whole thing ended up being glorified.

 

This was detrimental and took away from the show. I wouldn't be surprised if most of those kids were still backyarders, thinking they could make it to the big time because of the MTV exposure; nor would I be surprised if a dumb kid got into it after seeing the program.

 

One of the funniest parts of the above though, was about that kid who thought he could meet his celebrity crush (I forget who it was) doing this. I wonder if he realized after seeing the show how stupid he came off as.

 

I haven't seen the whole thing. But on the Female Version, it didn't have so much to do with pro wrestling, as it did with presenting a relatively new fetish to the public. But it still could be construed by someone in meaning "pro wrestling."

 

I would've liked to watch the original MTV Wrestling documentary again though. It was the best of the three, as it presented indy workers in HWA, as well as WWF stuff. The approach in presenting a variety of workers worked well, as it showed that everyone in the business has their struggles... it even presented a view on Triple H back when he was aspiring to be Champion and wasn't broken-down. In retrospect, the entire thing is worlds apart from how it seems now.

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

i thought the backyard one was entertaining but when they were going to originally show the porn one, they never aired it. The week after the backyard one originally aired, they advertised True Life: I'm a private wrestler, but never aired it. shame i missed it.

[Guest cynicalprofit]

I remember watching this and all i could think was "God these kids look stupid." The whole piece just lef ta bad taste in my mouth and made all of them look like idiots. Cosmic Smasher was using his "career" to meet baby spice. Dude 1997 called, he said its over.

[Guest bob_barron]

There was one MTV special where they find some women to fight a guy or something- is that the one you're talking about?

[Guest razazteca]

Bob Barron you are correct that is the "I am a Private Wrestler" special. I was thinking, how is this any different than what would be seen at any strip club on a theme night?