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In such settings, the legitimacy of pro wrestling is not in question, and it is commonly accepted to be just as much a sport as any other competitive martial art. More fantastical stories can take it to another level entirely, portraying pro wrestlers as having supernatural abilities that allow them to perform their death-defying maneuvers.
This is the default assumption in most related [[Video Games]], as a game that reflected the reality of [[Professional Wrestling]] would be difficult to effectively pull off. There are a handful of games that work without [[Kayfabe]], but they're mostly management
Compare to [[Kayfabe]], which is the real life practice of maintaining the illusion that Pro Wrestling is a competitive sport. It should be noted that while Pro Wrestling is staged in real life, it is still a highly physical and dangerous career. As Mick Foley once said, while who wins may be predetermined, there's no way to fake falling 20 feet off the top of a steel cage.
Not to be confused with [[wikipedia:Real Pro Wrestling|Real Pro Wrestling]], a short lived professional league of Olympic-style wrestlers.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[Ayane's High Kick|Ayanes High Kick]]'', the eponymous protagonist dreams of becoming a professional wrestler and eventually winning the women's world title.
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Street Fighter (comics)|Street Fighter]]'' has it both ways; R. Mika's actual wrestling matches (i.e., the stuff that happens off panel) are scripted, while Zangief is baffled by the concept and has never heard of such a thing before. This has roots in ''[[Street Fighter|SF]]'' canon; the series takes place in the same world as the ''[[Saturday Night Slam Masters]]'' games. Not only is wrestling real, but Zangief's old sparring partner Biff Slamkovich is upset that some people think it isn't.
* Both [[
* In [[Marvel Comics]], wrestling is usually depicted as real. There are two notable examples:
** When ''[[Spider-Man]]'' first got his powers, he entered a wrestling tournament and beat a wrestler by the name of Crusher Hogan. Interestingly enough, Crusher came back years later, publicly stated that wrestling was fake, and that he [[Blatant Lies|purposefully threw the fight to Spidey.]]
** During [[Fantastic Four|The Thing's]] run in his 80s solo title, Ben was the champion of the Unlimited Championship Wrestling federation, which was full of fellow super-powered competitors in real fights. One of the notable characters to debut during this time was [[New Warriors|Vance "Jusice" Astrovik]]. By the UCW's most recent appearance, however, they've switched to scripted matches and primarily employ non-powered
* Antarctic Press' ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'' has it both ways with the "Ultimate Fighters' Federation"; the matches are all unbooked [[Mixed Martial Arts]]-style fights, but the contestants do take part in storylines and maintain [[Kayfabe]] about their ring personas.
* ''[[Super Pro KO]]'', which takes inspiration from ''Kinnikuman'' (without the whole "superhuman" angle, though). It's also somewhat notable in that while the fights are unstaged, wrestlers still have angles and scripted
* ''Sensacional de Luchas'' uses this, and pretty much every comic of this type that ''doesn't'' will make the wrestlers into superheroes outside of the ring.
* ''La Mano Del Destino'' justifies this somewhat by explicitly taking place in an alternate universe. At least, more explicitly than
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* ''...AllTheMarbles'' portrayed women's professional wrestling as being real (outcome not predetermined, both participants trying to win).
* Any of the Mexican wrestling films of the sixties and seventies, starring real wrestlers like [[El Santo]], who have to use their wrestling skills to save the world.
* The first ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'' film also depicted wrestling as real as a direct adaptation of his origin story. In that world, Spider-Man beat a wrestler named ''Bonesaw McGraw'', played by [[Randy Savage]]. This is a not-entirely-realistic depiction of a practice known as "hooking", in which a wrestler who actually is a skilled fighter is advertised as taking on anyone who cares to try their luck with a large cash prize on the line, and proceeds to mop the floor with the rank amateurs who come gunning for the prize while making the matches look more even and dramatic than they really are in order to entice more
* ''Ready to Rumble'': [[Berserk Button|"Wrestling is]] ''[[Berserk Button|not]]'' [[Berserk Button|FAKE!!!"]]
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* In one episode of ''[[The Incredible Hulk]]'' David had a job as a trainer/medic at a pro wrestling arena. The wrestlers got along with each other well enough, but inside the ring it was all real.
* ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271812/ Tagteam]'', a [[Pilot Movie]] that was picked up but then canceled the day before shooting the first post-pilot episode. [[Jesse Ventura]] and Rowdy Roddy Piper play two wrestlers who refused to take a dive in a match so they were blackballed from the business. The eventually become cops and now [[They Fight Crime]].
* ''[[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Little House On the Prairie]]'': In the 1979 episode "The King is Dead," the sport's early carny origins are exposed, although in the climatic scene the champion wrestler in this
** Rumor has it that ''[[Bonanza]]'' (Michael Landon's previous series) had a script featuring professional wrestling in development before the show's sudden cancellation in 1973.
* ''[[The A-Team]]'': The 1985 episode "Body Slam" starred [[Hulk Hogan]] in a plot that made heavy use of Hogan's wrestling career (including footage from a 1984 match vs. Greg "the Hammer" Valentine, presented as legit), and featured several WWF faces as un-billed extras in a scene where they fight off that episode's villains. In the segment featuring the Hogan-Valentine match, the ending is altered to show the bad guys entering the arena to confront and assassinate Hogan (don't worry, they're stopped in time).
* In season four of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Cory has to be in [[Two-Timer Date|two places at once]], and one of those places is ringside, giving tips to Big Van [[Vader]] as a favor to Vader's (fictional) son Frankie. Everyone, including Vader, treats the match as entirely real.
* There was a late-80s-vintage ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch set in [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]] in which an angel was answering a newly-ascended soul's every question. When the angel declined to answer "what's the most surprising thing you could tell me?" on the grounds that he wouldn't believe it at all, the soul then asked something like, "What's the ''five-hundredth'' most surprising thing you can tell me?" The angel leaned in and very seriously informed him, "Pro wresting is ''real''." Naturally, the soul was stunned.
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▲== Web Original ==
* The round-robin story ''[http://www.mtcffultra.com/ Magical Troubleshooting Crossover Fighting Federation ULTRA]'' starts with the premise "what if all our favorite anime (and other fiction) characters were the stars of a pro wrestling tournament ... and the fights were not staged. (Also, [[Ranma ½|Kasumi Tendo]] is God.)"
* Many e-feds (essentially a combination of professional wrestling RPing groups and story contests) consider it bad form to have your character treat wrestling as fake.
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* One of the early cartoons satirizing the sport was the 1951 [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoon ''Bunny Hugged''. Bugs has to use his wits (and several conveniently available contraptions) to eventually upend the arrogant champion.
* ''[[Mucha Lucha|¡Mucha Lucha!]]'' is definitely on the "supernatural" side of things, with moves that involve shapeshifting among many others.
* In ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003]]: Fast Forward'', Pro Wrestling has ''become'' a legit sport. However, being from the past, Raphael is unaware of this and treats it like
* Played with in ''[[Futurama]]'', where the Robot Wrestling League is completely scripted, but [[Kayfabe]] is still intact and very few people outside the industry realize that it's scripted. Bender then rebels when the script calls for him to start losing, so it becomes a real
* The ''[[Rugrats]]'' episode "Wrestling Grandpa", being mostly from the babies' POV, has this trope in spades.
* In the [[DuckTales (2017)|2017 reboot of ''DuckTales'']], Pro Wrestling is ''not'' real, but this is because whoever invented it ripped off the concept from an ancient ritual (which is "as old as the world itself", according to Scrooge) used to prevent the Midguard Serpent from waking up and causing the apocalypse. This ritual is a lot like pro wrestling - right down to announcers, flashy costumes, and wrestlers with gimmicks identified as "face" and "heel" - but the fighting is indeed real. So much, it seems, that Scrooge is injured in the first match, [[It's Up to You|meaning his nephews have to take over...]]
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