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Notes on wrestling, Part III: The athletes
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Notes on wrestling, Part III: The athletes

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Carl Beijer
Nov 26, 2016
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Wrestling is fake. Somehow, this is both its dark secret and its obvious critique; inevitably, it is the great truth that critics declare to wrestling’s partisans, who have all this time somehow failed to notice. As a rule, the standard point is to concede this criticism, but to insist that wrestling is a worthy enterprise despite this flaw; even though…

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