It doesn't bother me that the wrestling is staged
What bothers me is what they've done, over the years, with the idea of "good guys" and "bad guys."
Decades ago, when the process of turning wrestling into staged entertaiment began, they could have decided then that they would simply let wrestlers be colorful characters in competition, without anyone being considered "evil." But they did go for good vs. evil. Okay, now they had heroes and villains; no harm in that--except that "villain" wrestlers began having to worry that some stupid fan, believing they really were evil, would attack them with a knife.
Then they began allowing wrestlers to change between good and evil. Well, it's true that a good man may be corrupted, while an evil one may come to repentance; but the rationales for the changes grew more and more flimsy and shallow, until the good vs. evil conflict became trivial EVEN by television wrestling standards. Then, for awhile, good guys almost entirely disappeared, and it became bad against worse--this thug against that thug. Now they are pulling back somewhat from this overly cynical mood; but it bothers me how many fans now cheer a wrestler specifically FOR being foul-mouthed and coarse.
