Originally Posted by DWB

You wouldn't list 2 minutes in the ring with any of them. None of us would.

Yea, they know the outcome of the match, and yea, the soften some of the blows, and yea, they even know some of the moves the other guy will do, but those dudes take a serious beating every single day, and those ropes and the mat are not soft by any means.

I've been backstage at a few WWF events (before they were WWE) and saw the pain they were in when they came back from the ring. They seriously abuse their bodies, and often take some really hard blows by accident.

Nothing fake or gay about taking a real beating by guys that big and strong.