The Wrestler was really good. The scenes between Rourke and the daughter made me cry. In the interviews I have watched, the old school wrestlers, Piper, Valentine, Dibiase, Dallas Page, Lex Luger have all said that its pretty true to life of how the old guys are.
I spoke without viewing it. Please forgive me. I only saw the scenes from the previews.
But like you, I loved wrestlers when I was a kid in Hawaii. I watched them on TV and my parents would take me to their matches. But I had a schoolgirl vision of what they were like. To me they were superheroes.