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Why pro wrestling is better than your “real sports” Wrestling. Isn’t. Fucking. Fake. What goes on on-screen is only part of the fun.
I’d seen wrestling before, but it never really made an impact on me until WrestleMania IV. I can’t imagine what my life would be like had I not decided to head over to Tommy O’Malley’s place that fateful day when “Macho Man” Randy Savage went over “The Natural” Butch Reed, One Man Gang, Greg “The Hammer” Valentine, and “The Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase to win his first WWE (then WWF) title. I was instantly hooked. In fact, if you went to Amvet Boulevard Elementary School in 1988, you might still have a copy of my first published piece of writing: a recap of the final match between Savage and…