Next time Quote by David Shoemaker

There's a misconception about wrestling, that it's really fake, but it's real, and you can really get hurt, even though a lot of it…

— Gayle Rankin

It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want…

— Owen Hart

If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it…

— Hulk Hogan

Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there…

— Kurt Angle

Wrestling isn't real. The falls hurt, sometimes you get punches in the face, but it's not real. It's propaganda. Propaganda makes you the giant…

— Enzo Amore

You can't fake wrestling. We can fake punch, but with wrestling you just have to go ahead and do it. You really need to…

— Channing Tatum

My original perception of wrestling was not a very positive one. I didn't understand it at all, and I thought it was kind of…

— Betty Gilpin

Fans see the competition between wrestling companies, which is the one thing traditionally everyone has known is real.

— Tony Khan

You hear the word 'fake' thrown around wrestling, but it doesn't get more real when you hear the sound of 20,000 people coming unglued.

— Sean Waltman

They say that wrestlers are actors, and they couldn't be more wrong. The truth is wrestling and acting could not be more opposite. Wrestling…

— Roddy Piper

One of the reasons wrestling works is because it allows people to suspend their disbelief. They may know it's not real, but if it's…

— Eric Bischoff

“When done right, pro wrestling can and should be a work of art.”

— A.J. Mendez Brooks