Is wrestling still a sport?

Over the years, Wrestling has gained a profound popularity as one of the most entertaining sports we have. Although, it has a long beam of history, it is expected, as a sport, to be a means of relaxation for people to cool off the tension of everyday stress and concerns. As experienced while watching other games like soccer, athletics, golf and hockey, wrestling is supposed to be enjoyed and guided by strict rules as applied in other sports.

Despite the much expectation from this sport, if you have ever been opportuned to catch raw live either as a spectator at the venue or from your TV screen, you must have noticed that the kind of fierceness being displayed by these sportsmen is making many people to feel uneasy instead of calming their nerves. The level of violent attitudes that has been brought into the game is something that needs to be checked and condemned. Most of these lawless acts are notable on the three major wrestling platforms – ECW, RAW and Smack down.

Being a sport that parades an enormous amount of stars and supermodels, with millions of viewers all across the globe, the governing body needs to enact strict guidelines so as to prevent the sport from being perceived by young to be preaching violence or to be supporting it indirectly. This will be better understood by those that have watched the matches in recent times.

Not so long ago, I was chanced to catch à la télé (Catch on TV) the fight between Shawn Michael and Chris Jericho on the TV and I could not bear it anymore when it got to a point when Michael was bathing in a pool of his own blood with a continuous hit form Jericho on his wounded foremen. The hitting was too hard he had that he had to submit to defeat at last. Also, as at the last time I watched, John Cena got a shock of his life when Big Show threw him into a halogen lamp of about 7000 watts. For how long will this terror be unleashed in the sight of our children whom we are teaching to embrace a non-violent lifestyle?

Apart from the above, there are several other examples that have shown that combat de catch(wrestling) in being turned away from the spirit of sportsmanship and this needs to be rescued. Without any exaggerations, I have seen harmful objects like broken glasses and bottles, clubs, cudgels, chairs, nail hammers, rods, metal knuckles and so on being used by wrestlers. If you have catch streaming of some games where these harmful objects are used, you will wonder if wrestling is still a sport or a contest of survival. This calls for an urgent attention in order to bring back sanity and moderation into the sport and to make it regain its glory of being entertaining and relaxing.