Adults always knew it was fake.
Think about it, boxing was huge, you don't get hit in the face and not swell up.
Think about it, boxing was huge, you don't get hit in the face and not swell up.
When did the biz become exposed?
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Here Comes the Pain
Superstar
Once it stopped being cool.
Basically when the rock and Austin left.
In the 80s and 90s wrestling still had that believability/mystic factor to it.
Basically when the rock and Austin left.
In the 80s and 90s wrestling still had that believability/mystic factor to it.
Russo's booking of WCW started when they started incorporating more of the wrassling talk into storylines. Like Buff Bagwells doing promos about "not doing jobs" Hulk Hogan showing up and laying down for Sting on Halloween Havoc 1999 and that whole Russo/Jarrett/Hogan blowup at Bash in the Beach 2000
Notorious 1 E.Y.E.
Superstar
When I think fox did that special on wrestling
Notorious 1 E.Y.E.
Superstar
Not really. It's a live action tv showapart of me believe's the business suffers because how exposed it is now a days.. It's hard to get invested emotional wise..
Every decade has had its moment it was exposed... every generation grows up believing it and then it becomes clear to them that it's not "real".
In the 80s, it was admitted... and then there were real-life incidents like Hacksaw Duggan and Iron Sheik being arrested, and even kayfabe things like this:
Like, who would see this and think any of these guys didn't get along with each other?
Then of course there's the 90s where the internet pretty much let everything be known... if you had a connection, you could log on to any wrestling report site and find out who's signing where, who's leaving, who's getting pushed, etc...
And as a result of that, the companies accepted it and didn't do much to hide it.
And nowadays of course, there's nothing to be hidden or protected, not even the stuff that was hidden and protected cause everybone from back then has done either a doc or shoot interview telling us shyt we didn't know about.
In the 80s, it was admitted... and then there were real-life incidents like Hacksaw Duggan and Iron Sheik being arrested, and even kayfabe things like this:
Like, who would see this and think any of these guys didn't get along with each other?
Then of course there's the 90s where the internet pretty much let everything be known... if you had a connection, you could log on to any wrestling report site and find out who's signing where, who's leaving, who's getting pushed, etc...
And as a result of that, the companies accepted it and didn't do much to hide it.
And nowadays of course, there's nothing to be hidden or protected, not even the stuff that was hidden and protected cause everybone from back then has done either a doc or shoot interview telling us shyt we didn't know about.
There's two layers of exposure, the exposure of it not being a real competition (breaking kayfabe) and the exposure of industry techniques.
There was talks of it not being a real contest over a hundred years ago. In the 80s, people kind of knew it was fake but they didn't know how it was done. They didn't know what a babyface was, a push or a resthold. Even if they knew it was fake, they didn't know the tricks.
All that changed in the 90s, when the internet (and some television documentaries at the time, Wrestling with Shadows for instance) exposed the tricks, followed by WWF and WCW exposing the tricks weekly on their TV shows.
The first layer happened roughly in 1908 and the second layer happened in roughly 1997.
There was talks of it not being a real contest over a hundred years ago. In the 80s, people kind of knew it was fake but they didn't know how it was done. They didn't know what a babyface was, a push or a resthold. Even if they knew it was fake, they didn't know the tricks.
All that changed in the 90s, when the internet (and some television documentaries at the time, Wrestling with Shadows for instance) exposed the tricks, followed by WWF and WCW exposing the tricks weekly on their TV shows.
The first layer happened roughly in 1908 and the second layer happened in roughly 1997.
Dreamzeedream
Banned
That's another thing to. Somethings they do come off as lame to Mr now a days
Berniewood Hogan
IT'S BERNIE SANDERS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
Spizoiler that shyt, brother.Dreamzeedream
Banned
Yea now,but it Popularity isn't the same as it was. It's like the "Make it look real" factor isn't always there
Notorious 1 E.Y.E.
Superstar
What do you mean now?
It's always been like that
Dreamzeedream
Banned
Idk mabey it just me. It just seem to phony at times
As soon as the Internet took off in the late 90s.