Who cares about pro wrestlers’ lifestyles?

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Last August, we wrote about a TV spot from the Ultimate Fighting Championship that ridiculed pro wrestling, as exhibited by World Wrestling Entertainment, as “fake.” That item got a bunch of 14-year-olds all riled up; they’re still duking it out in an increasingly unpleasant and homophobic comments section. Here’s some more fuel for UFC’s argument that WWE is lame. Next Tuesday, WWE is launching a “men’s lifestyle magazine,” WWE Magazine, that will “focus on the lifestyles of WWE superstars and divas, their activities outside the ring, and what they like in movies, music, gadgets, fashion and other items of interest to young men in their 20s.”

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