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So I only really got into wrestling this year when I got a new flatmate because he is a little bit obsessed. His favorite wrestler is old school Kane, up to the 2000's. So although we watch what's going on in the WWE world now, with NXT and RAW, (his favourites are AJ Styles and Sacha Banks. AJ Styles wrestled on the indie circuit for years and years and is now finally part of WWE and has a huge following as most wrestling fans have seen him on the indie circuit, hence the great train robbery of santa "Styles" because it's been a long journey for him. And Sacha Banks is a female wrestler who is the cousin of snoop dogg, she's good but my favourite female wrestler is Bayley, She's a hugger - that's her chant anyways.) I have also persevered through a lot of the best nineties episodes. And it did used to be a lot more brutal, this will be discussed in other posts.

When you think about it though, it's quite a sadistic interest to have, watching people beat each other up and getting excited when it crosses the border of fake fighting and real pain, which is why I think animation is the right medium for it because then there's more focus on the other elements. That and the fact that I'm infusing it with the western genre of cowboys to parody it, because also I have to remember that all of WWE universe is heavily copy writed, but I've looked into it and as long as your not making money off it - which I'm not because it's a student project, and it's for entertainment then they can't do anything. You never know they might actually quite like it. I hope they do.

What I didn't realise for the first 21 years of my life that the winner is predetermined to favour the narrative of the wrestling. I think that what makes a match so gripping is the fact that there is always multiple stories going on and you root for the good characters to be defeated again and again by all the heel wrestlers and then when they finally do win it's like a triumph for the universe making it entertaining. Which is why it's really important that my animation has a really strong animation. It wasn't actually announced until the late eighties when sports and entertainment fell into different tax bands in America so they had to declare it as being fixed.

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