08-12-2005, 11:14 AM
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AlphaQ Attitude
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Originally Posted by El Santo
Hmmmm... it looks like it was fake since the beginning:
"In the early days of professional wrestling, wrestlers toured the country and took on opponents from the audience. Many of the audience participants were approached beforehand and knew that they were supposed to lose to the star. Tom Jenkins and Frank Gotch were well-known performers of this early era, which ended about World War I (1914-1918)."
Source: MS Encarta
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