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Kayfabe

Colin Wright
Mar 26, 2024
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Kayfabe

Colin Wright
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December 19, 2023

In the world of professional wrestling, the term “kayfabe” refers to the shared social agreement to pretend that clearly fake, staged, performed behaviors are real. So while there are actual people engaging in at times quite physically demanding stunts within and beyond the roped-off wrestling arena, those stunts are performed in support of a narrative t…

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