Is pro wrestling fake? Does anyone actually ask that question anymore? According to “Rowdy” Ricky Knight, it’s not important. Sure the sport’s endlessly overacted fight scenarios are pre-determined. What counts, according to Ricky, is that “fans will know if you’re not being real.” There’s a difference, he says.
Ricky is the rotund paterfamilias of a scrappy clan of bottom-rung English wrestlers who were the subject of a 2012 British documentary that has now been refashioned as a feature film by director Stephen Merchant, a creator of the original BBC version of The Office. The virtues of Fighting with My Family are unexpectedly gratifying, given its provenance. The picture was produced in part by WWE Studios, which not long ago gave us a film with the phrase “Robo-WrestleMania” in its title. It also numbers among its producers Mr. Dwayne Johnson, himself a wrestler of some renown, writes Kurt Loder.
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