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“MY ‘PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING JOURNALS'”
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(“professional wrestling” (colloquially abbreviated to pro wrestling or wrestling) is an ‘athletic’ form of ‘storytelling’ that portrays a “combat sport”)
(taking the form of ‘live events’ held by ‘touring promotions’, it is a unique style of ‘combat’ based on a combination of adopted styles, which include ‘classical wrestling’, ‘catch wrestling’, and various forms of ‘martial arts’, as well as an innovative style based on ‘grappling’ (aka ‘holds’ + ‘throws’), ‘striking’, and ‘aerialism’)
(various forms of ‘weaponry’ are sometimes used)
the ‘content’ – including ‘match outcomes’ – is ‘choreographed’ and the combative ‘actions’ and ‘reactions’ are performed to appear ‘violent’ without injuring the wrestlers)
(before the ‘1980s’, these facts were kept highly secret, after which they were openly declared)
(by and large, the true nature of the ‘content’ is ignored by the ‘performing promotion’ in ‘official media’ in order to sustain and promote the willing “suspension of disbelief” for the audience by maintaining an aura of “verisimilitude”)
(“‘fan communications'” by ‘individual wrestlers'” and “‘promotions’ through ‘outside media'” (i.e., ‘interviews’) will often directly acknowledge the ‘fictional’ nature of the ‘spectacle’, making the predetermined nature of the sport something of an “open secret”)
(the “‘presentation’ of ‘scripted events’ as ‘legitimate'” is known as “kayfabe”)
(although the ‘combative content’ is ‘staged’ and communicated between the ‘wrestlers’, there are legitimate physical hazards resulting in ‘serious injury’ and ‘death’ in limited cases, due to the ‘realism’ and ‘contact’ involved in the ‘performance’)
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