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I can attest to most of the statements above as being true. For 4 years, I worked as a Remote Engineer for a TV station in a very large metropolitan city. Every Friday nite, for those 4 years, I was videotaping "raslin." I soon became aware of the "showmanship" portion of the sport.
Participants who "couldn't understand English" or would chew your leg off as look at you, would come in the remote truck and politely ask, in perfect English, if they could get a coke from us (they all knew we had "iced" in the truck).
After the show, mortal enemies would walk out of the locker room deciding where they were all going to have dinner...together.
Is it fake? Well, you and I couldn't do it without getting hurt, badly. Is it what the "storyline" implies? Nope.
But, ya know, those guys in the movies weren't really shooting Indians either!
And, to the participants of the sport, they're truly athletes. And, they've got to be better than just 'good' to have such a career.
So, is it fake? Ummmmm, yes and no.
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