I remember back in the 50s and early 60s My Father and I would go watch wrestling every week at the old Chautauqua hall in DeFuniak Springs.
He could not get anyone else to go with him. The girls didn’t care anything about it and my brothers knew it was fake. I was too young to care and Daddy just liked to watch it.
Some of the stars back then were Mario Galento, his brother Spider Galento, The medics, Joe Scarpa, Dick Dunn, and a whole bunch of others I have forgotten.
The girls didn’t care anything about it and my brothers knew it was fake.
I know/knew some of the prominent wrestlers in the various entertainment companies (many live in this area). Not "fake," so to speak, but choreographed. They had to practice the "script," or they could get hurt, badly. And they did. For all the money and endorsments, it was not easy to perform every night. Plus it seems, their life expectancy is short.
Just another point of view.
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Leo & Gino Garibaldi, Wild Red Berry, Lou Thess (sic), Gorgeous George, Baron Michel Leone, and Jesse Ventura (ha ha). Just wanted to prove that you don’t forget everthing as you age. I used to sit on the sofa with Grandma and Grandpa and cheer for the good guys. Those were the good old days !!!!!!!!, Karen