For those that enjoy watching and/or reading up on old wrestling, Voices of Wrestling recently had an article on the early days of US wrestling going as far back as the 1890s and one of its first mega stars.
Back in the day when wrestling was mostly seen as a real sport although still had its fair share of sports media saying wrestling was fake.
https://www.voicesofwrestling.com/20...-in-the-1890s/