From Bard to Bodyslam: Unraveling Wrestling’s Storytelling Magic
Yes, I’m going there!
7 min readApr 11, 2024
Wrestling isn’t real. It pretends to be fought, by stuntmen. These people are more acrobatic than the old-school—fat men slapping and kicking each other—however, they do use some storytelling, too.
You hear talk of it. There are two ways this is done currently: plots in promos and in-ring and…