Just watched the Bryan vs HHH match with my 10 year old cousin who doesn't understand english and doesn't know what a WWE is. Before it started I told they were fake fighting (because he likes UFC, so he would have noticed anyway) and even so he would moan with the dudes fighting everytime something looked painful. He was more into the submission locks than the high-flying stuff, which he just thought funny.
Without context, Triple H was just some strong guy with an entrance that went too long; on the other hand, he got a kick of everytime Daniel Bryan started shaking his head mounting a comeback; he also loved the kicks and, of course, the running knee in the end.
At one point he asked where was the blood, because the UFC had blood and I reminded him again it was not real and he went like "right, but this is better, because I can see what they are doing, in UFC it's too fast, it's hard to understand".
It was fun to see him walking this line we don't walk anymore of knowing it isn't real, but believing it is real, going "oh wow, his arm must be broken now!" and looking legit shook when Trips did the LeBell lock on Bryan, saying it looked real painful.
In the end, tho, the match went on too long (it really is a long match if you don't have any context whatsoever and can't understand the commentators, I guess); he lost interest torwards the and and started paying atention to other stuff in my room; but his interest was picked again when Bryan ate the Pedigree and, as said, he loved the running knee.
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All in all, I thought it was an interesting experiment.
