Is Male on Female Violence Acceptable in Entertainment?

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I'm still confused as to why they call it professional wrestling. Hillbilly Theater works better. Instead of Death of a Salesman, it's Undertaking of a Macho Man

WWE entertainment-based style isn't the most popular style in the world despite the fact that it's what most people in the United States know as wrestling. In almost 100% of the rest of the world, professional wrestling is considerably different and has much more of a "real" feel to it. With the WWE, and smaller companies like TNA that are trying to become "WWE lite," you really have a parody of professional wrestling more than actual wrestling.

Quick example: If you look back to Pancrase before they allowed strikes with a closed fist, they were essentially a shoot version of professional wrestling. The rope break rules and no strikes with a closed hand are professional wrestling rules. Japanese fighters trying to beat Bas Rutten is the reason they didn't allow strikes with a closed fist earlier, and if you look at the timeline, they started allowing them almost immediately after he retired.

People who like that type of grappling-heavy MMA tend to almost always like the pure/puro style of professional wrestling, aka the "normal" style for the vast majority of the modern world. Fun example with Sakuraba: