Fake. I used to watch it growing up my dad would take my brothers to watch the Von Erics, Dusty Rhodes, Andre the Giant, Tiger Conway etc ...at the Houston Colliseum but the sexist bastards wouldn't take me. So i had to watch on tv 🥺

My gramps told me Gorgeous George was the last honest-to-God real pro wrestler.

I believe it’s real. The Tooth Fairy told me that in the strictest confidence. 🤫

I use to wrestle for real in it school. 😆

100% fake but I used to watch it with my dad

I like to watch older matches, from the 80s, it seems less scripted in the ring

They are like stuntmen or women and is a dangerous job if not a real sport

most would make pretty decent doing Stunt work

I wonder if Chyna would have ever considered a role as she hulk🤔

It's a real performance art, like any other form of acting.

Well choreographed acting...

I watched it when I was younger. The storylines and acting are ridiculous and cartoonishly unrealistic, but the stunts are real and quite risky.

Fake? 🤔

Say it ain’t so !

Pro wrestling like the Olympics or WWE? Neither really. Used to watch WWE back when I was younger. It was entertaining. The athletes are very good at what they do and it would make sense for it to be scripted in order to reduce the injuries they must suffer.

I'm a grown man so no, I don't watch it.

I have a few friends who do it for a living and it's definitely fake ah, though the steroids and working out are real. They also get real injuries, despite the 'fight' being choreographed and the outcome being predetermined.

I've been watching WWE Wrestling since 1978 and from what I hear it's scripted but wrestlers do get hurt. So I'm thinking some of it is real while some of it is fake I still believe wrestlers use razor blades to cut themselves to make it look like they're injured and bleeding but I could be wrong?

Pro wrestling is as real as the Trump Administration.

Watched it when I was kid, definitely fake

Nope. And I KNOW it's fake.

In 1989, Vince and Linda McMahon testified under oath to the New Jersey State Senate that professional wrestling was scripted "sports entertainment," not a legitimate sport. This legal maneuver aimed to deregulate the industry to avoid taxes and commission oversight. WWE (then WWF) broke the "kayfabe" code to reclassify wrestling as exhibition, changing industry standards.

And it's still true. During his 2016 invasion of privacy lawsuit against Gawker, Hulk Hogan ( real name Terry Bollea) testified under oath that professional wrestling is "entertainment" and not a competitive sport.

No, I don't watch it, I think it's dumb and boring.

On ethe second question, It's not a question of what I think at all, it's well-known established fact that it is fake (the term you're looking for is "kayfabe") ... I can't believe anyone in 2026 would still think it's real, but then I can't believe anyone would believe QAnon conspiracy theories, or anything Trump says, either, so that speaks to the state of the Murican populace.

Fake, at the Royal Rumble they come into the ring like a firecracker when their number is called, beating up everyone. Then one well timed kick to the nipple or armpit punch and they're moving like a lethargic old man for the remainder of the match.

I used to watch it, from about 1997 to 2003. I always knew it was staged, or fake if you must, but the stunts were real. People really did get injured.

It’s real fake.

no - don't watch it

it's para-real - they pull back - if they didn't there'd be dead bodies and quadraplegics everywhere.

i don't watch it per say but i occasionally see clips of it in ads in tv lol supposedly it's scripted for entertainment..