(Installment No.2 is geared toward how Creative Writing hugely impacts Professional Wrestling and Sports Entertainment.)
Next month will
be 22 years that I have watched professional wrestling (also known today as
Sports Entertainment) but, honestly, those years just cover how far back I can
recall watching. It would not shock me
to know, when I entered this world in 1988, I was counting like a referee going
for a three count.
Plain and
simple: I am infatuated with Sports Entertainment, especially World Wrestling Entertainment. When I was a child, I used
to wrestle with friends, siblings, and pillows. I would create pay-per-view events with my
action figures, eat the Ice Cream bars, stay up late on Monday Nights to watch
RAW (still do, by the way!), and would know all the words to all theme songs
for each Superstar.
Minus the
physicality and eating the ice cream bars (which need to make a return to
freezers nationwide), I guess you can say I have not changed much in my passion
for Sports Entertainment. What I love
most about it is its scripted nature. From
a very young age, I understood that Sports Entertainment was scripted and,
while the physicality was real and the competitors had to be in peak physical
condition, I knew what I was watching was predetermined, simulated action. I hate when people, who are uneducated and
have no knowledge about the sport, insult the product by referring to it as
“fake.” Wrestling is no different from
any movie or show on television, but the integrity to those forms of
entertainment is rarely challenged.
The scripted
dynamic of Sports Entertainment is what intrigues me the most, because it
allows my creative juices to flow. I
love predicting what happens next, how storylines are going to twist and turn,
the cliffhangers, and the range of emotions expressed throughout an
entertaining match. Yes, a sense of
disbelief and sometimes turning the brain OFF are necessary but the stories
told inside the ring are powerful and memorable. Sports Entertainment is a true rollercoaster
ride of scripted emotions and I find it more enjoyable than any professional
sports game, than any television show, or any movie. I would compare it to a book reader’s
favorite novel, a film connoisseur’s favorite motion picture, and a musician’s
favorite album. Watching professional
wrestling is the number one influence in why I want to become a creative writer.
There is no greater feeling than knowing the words I write can keep someone eager to turn the page or filled with emotions as they sit at the edge of their seat.
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