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Originally Posted by The MAC
On these podcasts they discuss getting so much heat because the crowd believed wrestling was real. How stupid does one have to be to see that
men are "punching" each other in the face and there's no instant knock out, no blood, black eyes, fat lips or injuries in every match ?
Also, wrestlers apparently have hatred for each other yet they come out through the same entrance.
Also, a guy goes from one company to another and becomes a different person eg, Diamond Stud becoming a cuban drug dealer.
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1. Al Snow covers this. The reason why the closed fist was illegal was because it is the fakest things wrestlers do. The folks with the best punches often threw potatoes. And you had promotions like East Tennessee where they used such charming things like "The Wedge."
2. The same entrance thing is a recent phenomenon. As in, the last 20 to 25 years or so. Before that, the Heels had a locker room and the Faces had a locker room. And they entered during different parts of the building.
3. You know we didn't always have the internet or nationally televised promotions, right? Because, before we had internet, you could go to a different territory and have a completely different gimmick, and no one would know the difference. Except maybe the occasional person who moved there from another territory or are visiting family or something like that. And if the performer in question changed his look enough, they might not have even noticed.