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The Gods of Pro Wrestling

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K.L.O.E.:
I was thinking about this the other day and I'm almost certain we'll see a Monkey King hair clone or something in the pro wrestling book. Thoughts?

Conspiracy Theorist:
Not really looking forward to that book, not into wrestling, so it’s going to need to relegate the wrestling to a sub-plot.

If a god really wanted to obtain worship they would be playing football (soccer), as it is the most popular sport in the world, and let’s face it Pele changed gender and moved from Hawaii to Brazil to do this.

Redepisg:
I don't know about that...while individual soccer/football players are famous, it is, overall, about which team is the best.  Pro wrestling, on the other hand...

It's all about the personalities, the characters, the spectacle, and especially the heat the wrestlers generate in the crowd.  It's all about the individual.

While I could see some gods being more interested in pure competition, I could see a lot of the more arrogant ones being attracted to the individual focus of pro wrestling.

K.L.O.E.:
What don't you like about wrestling? (If you don't mind me asking)

I get why they'd be wrestlers over anything else:

* the fandom is specific to you, not a team
* pre-amalgamation you could tour the territories, Europe, and Japan forever and people wouldn't notice the pesky not aging bit
* it's a combat "sport" that uses holds that existed since Greece
* super strength is less noticeable in wrestling as anything can be explained away as a "work"

Conspiracy Theorist:
Not always the team, sometimes you have a player who stands head and shoulders above the team, a Pele, a Maradonna, a Best, a Ronaldo, a Messi, and they are truly lionised by the world as something truly special.

There is no scripting, no stunts, everything they do is real if not hyper real, bestriding the world as the best and it’s champions, they don’t merely have a fan base, they are capable of bringing a country together behind them, and having the rest of the world agog with their genius applauding their own teams defeat.

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