I watched Gorgeous George and others on TV in the late 1940s and early 1950s and it was already show biz. It's true that there were some wrestlers back then who had been straight wrestlers.
Wrestling back then was really fun to watch because even though we knew it was scripted it was fun, now, look at what they have now..they have Bob Backlund with a homo wrestler with the slogan “Make Darren Young Great Again” WOW how original..they are getting suspended left and right for failing drug tests, we all know they take Roids(or as they call it, Adderrol, guess all the wrestlers have ADHD)