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The WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment, says that almost fifteen percent of their viewers are ages 11 and under and that comes out to about one million children, which a third of that estimate is girls.In a couple of well publicized cases, a seven year old boy killed his three year old brother when he punched him in the neck and in 1999; a ten year old boy received a broken neck for copying a wrestling move. He had to have two major surgeries, missed most of the fourth grade and had to wear a head stabilizing apparatus for several months. Today his range of motion is not very good and he is one of the lucky ones.
It’s not just the weapons that make backyard wrestling dangerous. It is kids that are copying the wrestling moves of their heroes that are the most dangerous part of backyard wrestling. They are performing the moves of their professional counterparts and are not trained to do these dangerous stunts. Stunts are just what they are too and the professional counterparts are even being hurt, paralyzed and killed from performing the stunts. Professional wrestlers have received concussions, broken necks, torn muscles and dislocated bones because of moves going awry and our children are performing these moves
Kids at these ages do not realize that the wrestling moves they are copying are very well choreographed by professional wrestlers and that when they punch their opponents; they are not really hitting them. When kids see wrestlers grimace or scream out in pain, they do not know that the wrestler is doing something called “selling” the move to make it look like he is hurt or injured.