[Pulp Fiction]

Competition: the act or process of trying to get or win something (such as a prize or a higher level of success) that someone else is also trying to get or win : the act or process of competing.
Performance: an activity (such as singing a song or acting in a play) that a person or group does to entertain an audience.

Pro athletes in Basketball, Baseball and Football COMPETE for MVP awards for a game or a season.

Michael Jordan did score all those points in real life.
Bret Favre did throw all those touchdown passes in real life.
Nolan Ryan did throw all those strikeouts in real life.

Results in actual COMPETITION was the reason they won their sports MVP award.


We all know pro wrestling is scripted... the outcome of matches, storylines. Everything except what wrestlers go through during their in-ring PERFORMANCE.

If Pro Wrestling was the same as a UFC/Boxing event where two people compete in an event where the referee was impartial and the outcome wasn't already been pre-determined, then I would say that the Pro Wrestlers COMPETE. But they don't, they PERFORM.

I'm not saying that Pro Wrestlers aren't athletes or what they do is fake or an act. They PERFORM at what they do better than any other people in the world.

A Broadway show about pro wrestling would suck IF they didn't use actual pro wrestlers. If the show cast actors who tried to be pro wrestlers, it would be one of the worst shows in history.



Ric Flair's '92 Royal Rumble and Mick Foley's '98 Hell in the Cell match are two of the best PERFORMANCES in the history of pro wrestling.