The art in delivering pro wrestling strikes is finding the balance between a broken jaw and a laughing audience.
Wrestlers depend on that balance each night. Punches and kicks that make the right amount of contact add excitement to a match, helping the audience to forget that it's theater, not combat.
That's an element of the industry that outsiders struggle to understand.
Trying to cram wrestling into either the "real" or "fake" category doesn't work. The men and women in the ring are indeed hitting each other, just not at full strength. The blows are glancing, not concussive. The violence is restrained but not non-e...
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