Not much of an exciting title but bear with me. Earlier tonight Eurosport 2 screened Japanese Pro-Wrestling. In Japan pro-wrestling (not amateur as in Olympics) is both real and scripted. The real version involves having 13 points to start with and you lose 1 for every time you grab the ropes to break a hold or get planted hard on your back and 3 if you take a referee’s count. You lose when you have no points left, you submit or are counted out (to 10 like in boxing). I watched a bit of it and it was interesting to see but it was quite violent (almost like Ultimate Fighting). Between 9 and 10pm on the original Eurosport they had more wrestling on so i flicked it on - I couldn’t believe it, it was TNA (”Total Non-stop Action” not “Tits ‘n’ Arse” a much smaller rival to the big WWE, former WWF, that entertained us with Hulk Hogan when we could believe a man could rise from a severe beating and win just because we were cheering for him). Not a surprise in itself, the bigger Sky Sports shows WWE. The big shocker was this … Eurosport had dubbed the American commentary with two real sports commentators and they were calling it as if it was a real physical contest! The guys stood there show-boating to the crowd and the reporters had to act as if it was perfectly normal behaviour for this type of sporting contest! Why Eurosport, why? If you want to show it as an entertainment show then fine, but who is honestly going to watch it as some form of sport addict? Don’t you think the names “Shark Boy” and “Shocker” are a little clue? All that said two people, AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels are two of the most agile and acrobatic “martial artists” I have ever seen.
HI Ii’m a wrestling fan aswell at 27 years of age been watching wwe since 1990.
oh yeah eurosport have been airing tna for a while now and that bashido i don’t like much .
The commentary as you said was awful what’s the point they had jeff jarrett on tna commentating but you couldn’t hear them for the eurosport suxing guys.Don’t get to use to it being on because one week it’s on the next it may not and usually it’s 15 min late due to live sport before hand.
I can’t get in to it with the commentary and a 3 ad break in a half hour show(usually 2 half hour shows are shown 930pm then 930-10pm.) I stick with wwe .oh check my classic wrestling website at: http://retrowrestling.blogspot.com
plus the site i listed in the website url field above.
hi i started a wrestling news site .Links to wrestling news headlines on the web at http://wrestlingnewsdesk.blogspot.com so before searching wrestling sites find the headlines on my site that will link to the storys on other wrestling websites.