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Notes on wrestling, Part II: The business

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Notes on wrestling, Part II: The business

Oct 20, 2016
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Notes on wrestling, Part II: The business

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Perhaps one of the most distinctive features of modern professional wrestling (and by that I mean the WWE*) is that it represents itself as a business. This wasn’t always the case. Particularly in the late eighties and early nineties, wrestling shows came off more as a kind of spontaneous yet highly organized spectacle: athletes put on a show, a few ann…

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