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Congrats to Becky Lynch and Finn Balor

upinsmoke

In front of a crowd of 83000 at WWE's flagship event Wrestlemania Becky Lynch aka Rebecca Quinn became the first Womens universal champion beating both Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair for the WWE Smackdown and WWE Raw titles in the main event. A new Irish sporting hero and well done to her.

Also Finn Balor aka Fergal Devit defeated Bobby Lashley for the Intercontinental championship. Well done Finn.

A great night for the Irish at Wrestlemania 35.

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Signore Fancy Pants

LoL

McMurphy

upinsmoke wrote: »

In front of a crowd of 83000 at WWE's flagship event Wrestlemania Becky Lynch aka Rebecca Quinn became the first Womens universal champion beating both Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair for the WWE Smackdown and WWE Raw titles in the main event. A new Irish sporting hero and well done to her.

Also Finn Balor aka Fergal Devit defeated Bobby Lashley for the Intercontinental championship. Well done Finn.

A great night for the Irish at Wrestlemania 35.

What's the story with wrestling? I mean we all know it's acting/fake so how do they actually determine a winners as presumably the winner is determined well in advance....

Any way thanks for that update, but now it's over to Diarmud with the weather......

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RossieMan

Berties_Horse wrote:

The credibility of WWE is up in smoke.

When did it have credibility?

SureYWouldntYa

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

What's the story with wrestling? I mean we all know it's acting/fake so how do they actually determine a winners as presumably the winner is determined well in advance....

Any way thanks for that update, but now it's over to Diarmud with the weather......

Same as in a stage play like Hamlet or any other medium, the winner is determined to get a certain reaction from the people watching it

It's comic book esque at times as well, in that the bad guy will often get the upper hand before the good guy saves the day in the end, which is a very basic look at both Becky and Finn's situation last night

Noveight

upinsmoke wrote: »

Also Finn Balor aka Fergal Devit

Understandable name change.

A man called Fergal Devit would hardly make it big in Ballaghaderreen, not to mind the States.

Tom Mann Centuria

WWE (or WWF as it was back then) were doing "scripted reality" way before all the sh*t like only way is Essex, made in Chelsea etc etc.

suicide_circus

RossieMan wrote: »

When did it have credibility?

LessOutragePlz

After watching this video my opinion of it has changed dramatically. It's unbelievable how much of an asshole Vince McMahon is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8UQ4O7UiDs

MrStuffins

Wrestlers are good at what they do and all, and I understand that it's entertaining to some. And I also appreciate that the two wrestlers mentioned are Irish and it's nice to see them do well.......

But congratulating them on "winning" is akin to congratulating Sly Stallone on beating Carl Weathers in Rocky II

Ultimate Seduction

I don't get the hate wrestling gets for being fake. You don't see actors getting stick for fake fight scenes in movies?

Don't watch it myself but great to see Ireland being at the top of any particular field.

SureYWouldntYa

MrStuffins wrote: »

But congratulating them on "winning" is akin to congratulating Sly Stallone on beating Carl Weathers in Rocky II

It's not really a fair comparison at all

Rocky is obviously an entirely fictional character played by Stallone who was imagined by Stallone and brought to life by Stallone too

For Finn and Becky, they only get to win when they're basically at the top of their game in the world, a more fair comparison would actually be an actor getting an Oscar, they only got it because of their fictional scripted work, but they're in that position because they're among the best in the world at what they do

razorblunt

Becky Lynch is technically a better actress than Brenda Fricker but she will always have Home Alone 2.

The high horse brigade

She's hot though, well worth a Google

TerrorFirmer

Haven't watched it as a kid and each to their own, but they're high performing athletes that put on amazing shows all the same.

Yes, we all know it's fake. Yes, it's still nice that the scriptwriters decided an Irishwoman would take, and deserved, the title of something with such a huge global following.

upinsmoke

Watch till four minutes, this is why its entertaining.

JohnnyFlash

I’d prefer my kids to be watching that harmless auld rubbish than that UFC barbarity.

MrStuffins

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

It's not really a fair comparison at all

Rocky is obviously an entirely fictional character played by Stallone who was imagined by Stallone and brought to life by Stallone too

For Finn and Becky, they only get to win when they're basically at the top of their game in the world, a more fair comparison would actually be an actor getting an Oscar, they only got it because of their fictional scripted work, but they're in that position because they're among the best in the world at what they do

Rocky won 3 Oscars, including Best Picture.

Checkmate!

Fighting Tao

They won nothing. It’s scripted like a soap opera. Do you send congrats to the cast of Fair City for not screwing up their lines?

Junkyard Tom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBB9di80vvg

MrStuffins

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

I’d prefer my kids to be watching that harmless auld rubbish than that UFC barbarity.

You're 100% right. One is for children and the other is not. Congrats Super Dad!

RocketRaccoon

Spoilers you absolute ****wit

EmmetSpiceland

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

I don't get the hate wrestling gets for being fake. You don't see actors getting stick for fake fight scenes in movies?

Don't watch it myself but great to see Ireland being at the top of any particular field.

I don’t think normal people care too much about wrestling itself but when you have grown men trying to convince you it’s a sport it gets a bit much.

Also the fact grown men still watching it is pretty sad too. We had a few guys, two from IT and the creepy guy from admin, take today off so they could watch it together last night. One of the managers couldn’t keep a straight face when he was telling us about it on a coffee break.

Snotty

But they won because someone decided they would win, they won nothing on merit.

RocketRaccoon

Snotty wrote: »

But they won because someone decided they would win, they won nothing on merit.

They were chosen by their bosses to win, they won it on merit.

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You'll never beat the Irish

c.p.w.g.w

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I don’t think normal people care too much about wrestling itself but when you have grown men trying to convince you it’s a sport it gets a bit much.

Also the fact grown men still watching it is pretty sad too. We had a few guys, two from IT and the creepy guy from admin, take today off so they could watch it together last night. One of the managers couldn’t keep a straight face when he was telling us about it on a coffee break.

Not different from watching Game of Thrones or any other TV show

Guy:Incognito

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

They were chosen by their bosses to win, they won it on merit.

And we all know work promotions are always on merit.....

Guy:Incognito

Kobe Harsh Mace wrote: »

You'll never beat the Irish

Unless VInce McMahon decides you will.

Arghus

Fair play to them I guess.