I haven\'t played the PS1 wrestling games much, but it seems to me they were designed as if the wrestling were real. Would you as a player watch your health bar return to full, but then NOT get up off the canvas because you\'d been told to take a dive? Would you wait to defeat your opponent because the television broadcast would run short?
Of course wrestling videogames are designed as if wrestling was real. Everyone knows real wrestling on TV is fake, but who\'d want to play a wrestling game were all the fights were predetermined and none of your punches and kicks actually landed?
[Edit: Never mind, you already said that in the first part of your post. I just skimmed over it.]
