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When did Kayfabe die for you?

By Scott Keith on 22 July 2013

When did Kayfabe die for you? For me, it was 1985 and I had been to the Pro Wrestling USA card at the Brendan Byrne Arena. Then the local station showed this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-6OdotH_4Q

About 6;35 in and I still love Verne Gagne's explanation (or lack thereof)


For me it was partially PWI Weekly publishing WWF TV taping results in an actual timely manner instead of months behind like the regular magazine, which completely exposed how pre-meditated the whole deal was. And then of course the clincher was logging onto RSPW for the first time while tooling around in my Computing Science class in unversity and reading about how Maxx Payne might be getting ready for a "face turn" and having my mind blown all across the back of the lab. Suddenly I had a vocabulary for all these nebulous concepts I had been trying to put into words for a couple of years. Now of course with the internet so ubiquitous these days there's very little "Aha!" moments for newer fans to have in the same way, but it was big for us in the "internet with no pictures" days.

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