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  2. Professional wrestling - Wikipedia

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    Professional wrestling (often referred to as pro wrestling, or simply, wrestling [n 1]) is a form of athletic theater [2] centered around mock combat and based on the premise that its performers are competitive wrestlers.

  3. Kayfabe - Wikipedia

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    Kayfabe characters Sgt Slaughter and The Grand Wizard in a wrestling ring. In professional wrestling, kayfabe (/ ˈ k eɪ f eɪ b /) is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true", specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not staged.

  4. Glossary of professional wrestling terms - Wikipedia

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    A burial is often used a form of punishment due to real-life backstage disagreements between the wrestler and the booker, the wrestler falling out of favor with the company, or sometimes to demote an unpopular performer or gimmick. business Professional wrestling; instead of "profession" or "sport". [3] bust open

  5. History of professional wrestling - Wikipedia

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    A tradition of combining wrestling and showmanship may originate in the early 1800s in Western Europe, Britain, and Ireland, when showmen presented wrestlers under names such as ""Herculean" Flower" [5] and "Edward, the steel eater", "Gustave d'Avignon, the bone wrecker", or "Bonnet, the ox of the low Alps" and would wrestle one another and challenge members of the public to attempt to knock ...

  6. Professional wrestling in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Professional wrestling, in the sense of traveling performers paid for mass entertainment in staged matches, began in the post-Civil War period in the late 1860s and 1870s. [1] During this time, wrestlers were often athletes with amateur wrestling experience who competed at traveling carnivals with carnies working as their promoters and bookers.

  7. What is the true story behind 'Unstoppable'? Wrestling champ ...

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    “Unstoppable,” based on the real-life story of wrestling champion Anthony Robles is one of resilience, strength and proving people wrong. Jharrel Jerome embodies the athlete, who despite being ...

  8. Dirt sheet - Wikipedia

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    In the English speaking professional wrestling culture, a "dirt sheet" is a wrestling magazine, wrestling newsletter or website that covers professional wrestling from a real-life perspective as opposed to treating the storylines as real.

  9. Paul Walter Hauser on His Wrestling Career, Reading ... - AOL

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    In real life, I like flawed people. ... You recently started your career as a professional wrestler. In June you took part in a 40-man royal rumble where you knocked out UFC alumnus Tom Lawlor ...