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Originally Posted by Sarah_MaxCash
Ah, the days of him and Hulk and me being too young to get the fakeness. He was a true character.
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i was too old when the WWF blew up into crazy popularity - i knew it was completely fake and i couldn't enjoy it as cartoon entertainment. but it was impossible even if you weren't a fan to know all the characters and their shtick.
i loved wrestling when i was a kid and believed it was real. it was the 70's, wrestling was on the shitty UHF channels, and cheesy as hell, which for me added to it's appeal. Vince McMahon resurrected fake wrestling and took it to new heights of popularity and production values as a television product.
they say fake wrestling follows a cycle in its popularity - it was huge in the 1950's and early 60's then went a couple decades out of favor with the masses and then hit it big again in the 80's. MMA has taken over - but I bet wrestling will re-emerge again at some point. I think MMA may have already peaked.