Tales from the Territories - CWF Bloodstains in The Everglades
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Back in these days it wasn't widely known that wrestling was faked, and they would beat the crap out of people to see if they quit easy. if people could take the beating and keep coming back they would be let into the business and told it was fake and how to work. when Vince Mcmahon came out and and Immitted it was fake the WWE went from very popular to almost going under
SwantonAtomBomb
2025-01-30 03:16:28 +0000 UTCOne thing to consider is if people didn’t protect the business in the 60s and 70s it probably would never have made it to where it is today so everything happens for a reason.
Ethan Sofinowski
2025-01-30 00:05:11 +0000 UTCThere wasn’t a lot of context provided to the breaking somebody in aspect of it. You have to look into how people were trained before the modern day and rules back then. Most guys coming into the business, they weren’t sat down the first day and told “This is wrestling and here’s how you do it” It was a protected industry, a brotherhood. You had to prove you were tough enough to get into that industry, so they would stretch you and work you out and exhaust you and hurt you. If you could take the level of punishment they were dealing out, thriving though it and coming out on the other side, then they would teach you the business. Guys weren’t even told wrestling was a work until that point either. Doctor D David Schultz when he was training he thought it was real until they sat him down and told him different. A lot of guys have that same story where after they proved their level of toughness, the person training them would bring them into the fold. Stu Hart, who ran Stampede Wrestling up in Canada was famous for stretching guys and putting them in holds with the basement in his house known as the Hart Dungeon. The thing they didn’t get into with Eddie Graham was how detailed he was. Theres a famous story where Eddie is telling a guy a match and giving him like 50 different things, and somewhere in there he wants the guy to do 3 drop kicks. The guy only does 2, but he does everything else in the match, he comes back from the match thinking Eddie is going to praise him he just says “Where was the 3rd dropkick?” There was still a lot called in the ring though. The match that Kevin Sullivan wrestles Barry Windham for the belt to start the heel turn was called completely in the ring.
John Coffey
2025-01-29 23:58:20 +0000 UTC
