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From: rwg@Solbourne.COM (Rick Gillespie)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call For Discussion: rec.arts.wrestling
Message-ID: <3034@abbeyroad.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 1 Nov 89 22:16:20 GMT
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Reply-To: rwg@Solbourne.com (Rick Gillespie)
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In article <868@scifi.UUCP> scifi!njs@uunet.UU.NET (Nicholas J. Simicich) writes:
>About the newsgroup name:  There is a real sport of wrestling that is
>practiced at the Olympic level and in High School and College.  If
>there is ever to be a newsgroup to discuss that sport, it should
>probably be rec.sport.wrestling.  With pro wrestling out of
>rec.sport.misc, "real" wrestling could be discussed there as well.
>
>A final possibility was talk.wrestling.  rec.arts.wrestling just
>seemed more appropriate, since going to matches or watching them on TV
>is a recreational activity.

I wouldn't care too much for talk.wrestling since we don't get talk
groups here, but I don't think we need to worry about that. We're
in a rec group now so I can't imagine being forced to a less
distributed hierarchy.

I don't have much problem with the "arts" designation. But a little
voice in my head keeps complaining: the wrestlers ARE athletes, and
some of the best in the world. I would like to see Magic Johnson
super-plex someone off the top rope without destroying himself or
his opponent.  I hate to see the wrestlers, themselves, denigrated.

But it *is* only entertainment (gee, unlike other professional sports)
and scripted at that. So, I can live with the "arts" designation.

>I briefly thought about sci.wrestling, so that it could get into
>Europe :-), but discarded the idea.

I guess "scientific" wrestlers like Curt Hennig don't count. :-)

>As for a charter, how about:
>
>   A newsgroup to discuss Professional Wrestling and related
>   exhibition "sports".

I would remove the "related exhibition sports" part. I wouldn't
look in a wrestling group to find roller derby articles.

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