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I like this entry because wrestling is an extremely polular sport, and this entry shows arguments for liking and disliking wrestling, reasons for and against, and comes to a logical conclusion. It's generally well written with a good format and is about something many people nowadays enjoy.

Rollerball Rocks!!!!!!!!!!1!!!1

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*ignores Lucinda*

Well, it's very entertaining, and certainly a start.

But:

What about the rules?
Where did it originate?
What forms are there? Are you talking just about the "WWF" variety, or the sort involving scantily clad women, or the Sumo type, or in general?
Is there any contraversy surrounding the scene? Why is it looked down upon by some, and loved by many?
Hmm? HMM?!

If you're so bloody obsessed, go research it yourself, whilst the rest of us with A LIFE revel in the utter sheer brilliance of rollerball.

It's difficult to pin down a name on what you know is a 'variety' of wrestling that you know should have a name but doesn't. The style of self-confessed 'fake' wrestling this entry discusses - that of (primarily) WWF, WCW and ECW - is ccertainly not featured in the Olympics! Just look at Kurt Angle. Er...

But you know what I mean.

I used to hate wrestling until I realised it was fake. Then I began to enjoy it, because I knew they didn't really hate each other. I don't like wrestling *despite* the fact that it's fake: I enjoy it almost *because* of that.

What's possibly most worrying is that they don't ACTUALLY hate each other, but are still willing to subject their opponents to a lot of very real pain.

Hey man, I'm just giving some feedback, like I'm s'posed to.

I'm not denying anyone the sheer brilliance of rollerball.

Well thats ok then, so long as everyone recognizes the fact that rollerball is the best sport ever invented by anyone ever, and if any of you don't know what rollerball is, i suggest that you go rent out the badass film, inventively titled "rollerball"

I s'pose it should probably be renamed as wwf wrestling, or tv wrestling or sumthin'. Sorry, i didn't really think about that bit.
Theres olympic wrestling, which is crap, sumo wrestling which i've never seen. Ah well. I was referring to "commercial wrestling"? Is that right? I dunno.... Have you ever wondered what would happen if an olympic wrestler starting hitting the orther guy with a chair? And when he came to the ring there were pyro's and music, and he started dancing like "too cool" in wwf? Before putting his opponent in the peoples elbow and shouting "Can you smell what the rock is cooking?"
What would the crowd DO?

Anyhoo,
i've updated the entry to include a BRIEF summary of how it originated, (primarily because i have no idea, and cannot be ar**d to find out)and to include other organizations, the rules, and have changed the title to WWF/WCW Wrestling till i can think of the appropriate variety name.

"Professional Wrestling", perhaps?

Ha! 'Professional' indeed!

But yes, that seems like a good title to me. That is what they call it, after all.

Yeah, but people who enter into olympic wrestling are called professional wrestlers as well aren't they? I mean, they're hardly amateurs, or doing it for a laugh, if its olympic level........I have no idea what to title this bloody entry. SOMEONE!HELP!

actually, the olympics are amateur only. No professionals allowed.

I don't think anyone makes a living from real wrestling... which is kinda sad, if you think about it...

Really??? Thats kinda sad that ACTUAL wrestlers don't get credit whilst cruddy fake wreslters with crazy identities, who spend the whole time acting like their wrestling get paid extraordinary amounts, and become famous world over. Thanks for the title, anyways, i'll just change it.

Uhhh... Could one of you brilliant lovely wonderful superb scout type people actually get around to recomending my entry rather than discussing what it should be called. I don't mean to be rude but i've updated it and feel that it is ready to be put in the edited guide!
PPPPLLLLEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSEEEEE recomend it!!!!

I'm afraid you need to be patient. Believe me, I know how it feels (and so do the other Scouts). If it's good, it will be recommended in good time.

And asking for recommendation NOW is a recipe for delaying your rec a long time - scouts, like anyone, don't like being told how to do their 'job'... {wanders off to add that to his list of tips}

You need structure. That means headings (do them in CAPS or ***stars*** if you don't want to learn GuideML), and an entry which flows a little more logically, and less like a stream of consciousness... take a look at some existing entries for hints, if you like.

Good stuff so far - made me laugh and nod in agreement plenty enough - but needs more effort to make it a truly stellar entry... good luck!

Grr...Argh! If i had any sense i'd stick to chatting with nympho's, as it is, i'll try and fix it.........*grumble*,*grumble*....

Going impatient is the least wise thing to do here. Just look around this page and find out that there are some 300 entries (in various stages of completeness and such) waiting to be picked -- not to mention the h2g2 Writing Workshop. And an overwhelming amount of *25* per week appears on the other end in the form of Edited Entries.

The best thing to do is make your entry not only a good one, but an excellent one (pssst! excellent entries get picked earlier). An equally good thing is to not only look around the conversations on this page but *comment* on them!