wrestling

is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of arnolphe or andromaque.

Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. Roland Barthes

is the only sport in which the participants groan as much as the customers.

is a sport where people with no pants fight for a belt.

Wrestling is a sport where people with no pants fight for a belt.

I enjoy watching wrestling a lot more if I think of it as competitive hugging.

is a real Human Comedy, where the most socially-inspired nuances of passion (conceit, rightfulness, refined cruelty) always felicitously find the clearest sign which can receive them, express them and triumphantly carry them to the confines of the hall.

We are therefore dealing with a real Human Comedy, where the most socially-inspired nuances of passion (conceit, rightfulness, refined cruelty, a sense of 'paying one's debts') always felicitously find the clearest sign which can receive them, express them and triumphantly carry them to the confines of the hall.

is a spectacle in which defeat is not an outcome, but quite the contrary, it is a duration, a display, taking up the ancient myths of public Suffering and Humiliation: the cross and the pillory.

In wrestling, unlike judo, Defeat is not a conventional sign, abandoned as soon as it is understood; it is not an outcome, but quite the contrary, it is a duration, a display, it takes up the ancient myths of public Suffering and Humiliation: the cross and the pillory. It is as if the wrestler is crucified in broad daylight and in the sight of all.

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wrestling