Ignorance

[Guest ViciousFish]

PLease forgive my ignorance but what is the difference between puroresu and say the WWE?? Plus, what does puroresu mean?

[Guest Coffin Surfer]

Puroresu is Japanese Wrestling, there are many promotions with many more different styles. There's a pinned new to puroresu thread that contains many websites for information, that you should look at first, before making this topic.

[Guest Ace309]

It's apparently very common for the Japanese to take English words and alter the pronunciation to fit the language, much like the French now make reference to 'le week-end,' for example.

 

'Puroresu,' the word itself, is just a clipped version of the Japanese pronunciation of "professional wrestling" (or, more accurately, "pro wres").

[Guest TheGame2705]

I fear for this poster's safety. Jubuki will verbally ream his backdoor.

[Guest Rob Edwards]

If he's going to verbally rape someone for showing an intrest in puro then he's got some serious issues

[Guest Jubuki]

Maybe both of you two should just shut the Hell up before you turn up looking ignora--oh, too late.

[Guest ViciousFish]

First of all I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't like my backdoor reamed, so please don't. Secondly....the only difference is that it's Japanese? That was simple.........a little too simple.

[Guest wolverine]

Yes, it's just professional wrestling that takes place in Japan. But if you were to just listen to Joe Fan in this folder, you'd think it was some secret society with the way they throw around ridiculous phrases like 'puro.' Personally, the only time I can remember using that term was in a Mexican restaurant while ordering food. What? You mean it's not pronounced like the Spanish word for pure? Damn.

[Guest RickyChosyu]

The same thought popped into my head last week on my trip to Costa Rica. "Pura Vida" is practically the country's marketing phrase, so I saw and heard it often.

 

The attempt to make Japanese wrestling seem like a mysterious concept only for the most elite fans makes sense. Most net types probably feel they come off as more "hardcore" if they toss around terms like "puro," "Ligerbomb," and "the Muta scale." By using those terms around people unfamiliar with them, they get to sound hardcore and maybe even knowledgable, if someone bothers asking them what the words mean.

[Guest PlatypusFool]

I use the word 'puroresu' simply because if you say 'wrestling' to most people, they immediately think of the WWE, and I'd rather not be associated with that promotion anymore. Actually, I mostly say 'fighting sports' to people who ask me about my hobbies, as this seems like a blanket term to describe all sorts of stuff.

 

I don't think everyone who uses the word 'puroresu' does so to sound knowlegable, or to create the in-group and out-group dynamic that is so prevelent in society (well, that sounded philosophical), it's just a word that means 'wrestling, but good lord, not the WWE'.

[Guest RickyChosyu]

I didn't mean what I said in regards to everyone who uses the term. I do see a lot of people who toss it around in front of other North American fans, though, in hopes of seeming more knowledgable. Many of the people who do this probably haven't seen that much (often times just what they've downloaded and what-not) but they like the idea of being a "puro" fan and thus being more hardcore than the rest of their buddies.

 

So I'd say it doesn't apply that much to fans who actively seek out Japanese wrestling tapes and that know about the product. It's more often times the guys who know very little themselves but wish to appear knowledgbable in front of others.

 

I got the feeling that's what Wolverine was talking about, anyway.

[Guest Black Tiger]

the only time I ever use the term is in the world of online, if I break out a wrestling tape in front of my sister, or whoever and they ask what it is I just answer "wrestling from Japan".

 

If anyone feels the need to bust out the term in real life, then odds are the just want to sound "smart"

 

hmmm, come to think of it, I don't even know the correct way to pronounce "puro" (as in rhymes with Floor-o?)

[Guest Jubuki]

ProRes

 

U's are silent - it's just how they had to adopt the term 'pro-wrestling' into Japanese and then how it translates back into English that throws people off.

[Guest J*ingus]

It's from the Japanese tendency to occassionally stick in extra vowels when trying to pronounce English words, thus "pro" becoming "puro", although "p'ro" might be a better written form of the pronunciation. "Resu" is a contracted form of "wrestling", with the "L" taken out, because that particular sound isn't used in Japanese. The full word would probably be pronounced something like "resu-ing-a".

[Guest Ace309]

hmmm, come to think of it, I don't even know the correct way to pronounce "puro" (as in rhymes with Floor-o?)

 

Yet another reason that the guys I go to school with just refer to it by promotion.

[Guest Black Tiger]

Now that I think of it, they do like to add vowels to English words

 

Steve-u Williams-o

 

Johnny Ace-u

[Guest KanadianKrusty]

also: Ric-u Flair-a

 

That one sounded awful.

[Guest HartFan86]

Cactoous Jack!

[Guest saturnmark4life]

What do they call Saturn, out of interest?

[Guest permagrinning]

the only time I ever use the term is in the world of online, if I break out a wrestling tape in front of my sister, or whoever and they ask what it is I just answer "wrestling from Japan".

 

If anyone feels the need to bust out the term in real life, then odds are the just want to sound "smart"

 

hmmm, come to think of it, I don't even know the correct way to pronounce "puro" (as in rhymes with Floor-o?)

"If anyone feels the need to bust out the term in real life, then odds are the just want to sound "smart"

 

 

What that is right there is called a geek, simple and easy. Geek, geek, geek....same as any one that will talk in babble like Muta Scale and so forth just to sound like an intellectual and confuse anyone not familiar with the nifty insider terms (sarcasm). If you actually know what you're talking about then you have the ability to express in your own fashion to another person so that they may have a chance to understand what the hell you're talking about. Otherwise, it's just a parrot looking for a cracker wearing too thick glasses.