It’s a stage show, a carny ruse, a bajillion-dollar entertainment enterprise, a ferociously American form of art, and a tremendous source of personal gratification, even if I’m usually embarrassed to tell other adults how much I love the shit. Professional wrestling, as we’ve come to know it, is not a sport, even if it also involves feats of strength and skill and etc. Wrestling gave up even the flimsiest of pretenses to athletic legitimacy.