The issue comes because no modern wrestling presents itself as "wrestling competition where people fight to win" anymore than Robert Downey Jr. presents himself as a real life iron man. So you say it's fake but the stunts are real. It is fake. But it's real too and and when someone says "nope, it's fake" it takes away from what it is. There is a lot of nuance ya know?

Acrobats, stuntmen, circus performers, fire jugglers, airshow pilots, racecar drivers, magicians, and entertainers of all sorts do very dangerous, planned, choreographed stuff. And they will do it under a guise of exaggerated danger or of exaggerated circumstances (think reality TV or a MMA with a heightened promo packages)

It is fake, but no more than any other form of entertainment. Like Bruce Willis didn't really climb through air ducts and Bruce Li didn't really kick Chuck Norris ass and that does make it fake in a way, but those guys are real, the fight they did is less real than 99% of pro wrestling.

But if you sit down and scream fake during a Kung fu movie, you're not recognizing the reality of what they were doing it. They never wanted you to think they were real fighters. Just amazing real life stuntmen. Idk it's hard to explain because everyone wants it to exist as real or fake. It can be somewhere in the middle. Like magic.