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How do professional wrestling and mixed martial arts differ?

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    by Adam Collier

    Professional wrestling and Mixed Martial Arts differ in so many ways on so many levels. Yet at the same time, Pro Wrestling and MMA are also very, very similar. The differences are easy to spot. Wrestling, despite ...read more

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    by Peter Edwards

    The professional wrestler is extrovert in character driven to perform to a wide audience. Showcasing his fitness and skills in an artificial arena against a like minded opponent. Although choreography plays an important ro...read more

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    by Bubba Ray

    There are many reasons why professonial wrestling and mixed martial arts differ. Professional Wrestling is mostly about storylines, and it's a big soap opera. Whenever I watch professional wrestlling I tell everyone "I'm g...read more

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    by Can Tran

    Coming from a practitioner of mixed martial arts, I have seen very significant differences between professional wrestling and mixed martial arts. There are many people that do think that professional wrestling and mixed m...read more

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    by Bruce Bostwick

    The difference between professional wrestling and mixed martial arts are as clear as day. Both are trying to attract different audiences. Looking at the obvious, one is a sport that goes by who the better man being MMA a...read more

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    by Kirsty O'Lone

    Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a real sport, with real athletes in real fights who are genuinely fighting to win, whereas professional wrestling is "sports entertainment" where the outcome of the matches is determined before ...read more

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    by Aj Brady

    To simplify this argument, professional wrestling and mixed martial arts differ in the fact that wrestling is fake fighting, and mixed martial arts is real fighting. I could end the article there, but the minimum word r...read more

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    by Chad Morgan

    Every professional wrestling fan has confronted this question, "Why do watch it. Everybody knows that it is fake!". Just like every other hardcore fan, we just laughed and brushed it off. Then came the days of when the ...read more

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