The thing that made me realize wrestling was fake is when Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero  had a ladder match for custody of Rey Mysterio’s son.

“Yes, it’s fake. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be honest.” Dang.

Cool, guess I'll cry for these two men I just found out existed 10 minutes ago doing a sport I don't watch

It's just amazing when you're a kid and think it's all real.
Then, after the realisation it gets boring.
And after the NEXT realisation, when you start to see whats all behind the show and what the athletes have to endure... it gets amazing again.

“I’m sorry”. “I love you”. I lose it every time. I see that.

Most fans over the age of 10 know it's scripted so it always amuses me when non fans think they're blowing your mind when they tell you it's "fake".
It's like theatre. Theatre where massive dudes smack the shit out of eachother.

The golden lovers story line was so fuckin anime that I feel like I need to read the manga to fully grasp it.
Edit: thanks for all the likes.

"This is so goddamn dumb," I say, wiping a tear from my eye.

Whenever someone says "Wrestling is fake." I reply with "So is porn, but you probably think that's real, don't you?"

Oh god please , just start making videos narrating wrestling arcs

The Golden Lovers saga is unironically a better love story than anything Hollywood has made in the past 10 years

Wrestling is stuntmen doing theatre. That's my favorite way to dumb down wrestling

I appreciate the fact that you called pro wrestling "Physical Theater". It's really a great way to wrap it up in two words.

So you are telling me... Wrestling is serious meta real life anime before all those things were cool?

The choreography of the Golden Lovers was legitimately talented and beautiful, god. That final fight could be turned into a show in itself, man oh man.

I actually got tears with him using "that move."

It’s been 3 years since this video was posted, and it’s been three years since I got obsessed with wrestling. Thank you so much for introducing me to one of my passions!!

I cried listening about the golden lovers storyline wtf

God, the ending of the Golden Lovers section gets me every time.

To be fair, it helps that Kenny Omega and Shinsuke Nakamura are basically real life anime characters

I know the video came 3 years ago but for those who are interested, The Golden Lovers Saga is still not over in 2021 :
The reunion shown in this video took place early 2018 and shortly after, Omega and Ibushi started a fight with two particular members of Bullet Club : The Young Bucks. Young Bucks are twins who are very close to Omega and they felt that Omega betrayed them for Ibushi, so they had a 2vs2 fight which was incredibly emotional and during the match, Omega was torn between his friendship towards Ibushi and Young Bucks. At the end, Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi won the match and everyone realised at the end that all the conflict wasn't worth and that everyone could co-exist together.
So after the match Kenny,Ibushi and the Bucks formed "The Golden Elite" a group based on Omega's friends.
But... not everyone liked that, remember that everyone was still part of the Bullet Club, a group of supposed merciless and disrespectful group of outsiders who were sick of this "friendship bullsh*t" and then a civil war started between The O.G Bullet Club and the Golden Elite. The O.G Bullet Club thought that the Golden Elite didn't belong anymore in the Bullet Club.

But then in 2019 something happened in real life :
A billionaire named Tony Khan with the help of Cody Rhodes wanted to start his own wrestling company named AEW, so they recruited top-tier talents like Chris Jericho, Omega, the Bucks and many more... But not Ibushi...
Kenny Omega was IWGP World heavyweight champion at the time so he had to lose his title before coming to AEW. Ibushi stayed in NJPW and Omega left to AEW...
With the two separated, they went back to solo and Ibushi was one of the fan favorite to win the G1 Climax of the year 2019.
But the interesting thing is that every time that Ibushi wins a match and adress the NJPW crowd, he kept saying the same thing over and over : "I won't quit, I won't lose, I won't abandon you."
You can CLEARLY see that this has a subtext, and that this sentence is a message send indirectly to Kenny Omega.
You can feel that Ibushi felt deeply betrayed by Omega who signed in another company and that he cared about him way more that he will ever admit.
At the same time, Omega indirectly showed that he moved on and that the Golden Lovers is over.

Now that they are in different companies, nothing big happened between Omega and Ibushi, they both became World Champions of their own companies (even if Ibushi eventually lost his championship). But sometimes, you can still feel that they care about each other by using each other moves.

We are in 2021, Golden Lovers are separated, Omega is in America, Ibushi is in Japan. COVID makes it difficult to reunite the team, but we, wrestling fans still hope that the two will meet each other in the ring again. Are they still friends ? How is Ibushi feeling about Omega now ? We don't really know. The story is still evolving and I can't wait for the two to be reunited again.

EDIT : July 13th 2023 They just announced, they will reunite next week ! 😭😭😭