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avg rating 4.05 — 47,342 ratings — published 2009

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avg rating 4.09 — 30,579 ratings — published 2010

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avg rating 3.33 — 651 ratings — published 2023

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avg rating 4.20 — 20,029 ratings — published 2012

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avg rating 4.12 — 22,614 ratings — published 2011

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avg rating 4.04 — 258 ratings — published 2014

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avg rating 3.85 — 909 ratings — published 2011

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avg rating 3.98 — 438 ratings — published 2012

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avg rating 4.24 — 7,965 ratings — published 2000

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avg rating 3.66 — 2,824 ratings — published 2013

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avg rating 3.93 — 122,970 ratings — published 1999

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avg rating 4.19 — 9,949 ratings — published 1999

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avg rating 3.79 — 7,062 ratings — published 2012

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avg rating 3.68 — 359 ratings — published 2009

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avg rating 4.15 — 4,643 ratings — published 2003

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avg rating 4.33 — 55,452 ratings — published 2023

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avg rating 3.88 — 17,394 ratings — published 2009

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avg rating 4.09 — 4,490 ratings — published 2016

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avg rating 4.40 — 1,985 ratings — published 2009

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avg rating 4.28 — 3,347 ratings — published 2011

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avg rating 4.22 — 1,120,359 ratings — published 1936

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avg rating 4.08 — 21,794 ratings — published 2015

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avg rating 4.17 — 570,670 ratings — published 2011

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avg rating 3.59 — 1,399 ratings — published 2012

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avg rating 4.01 — 207 ratings — published 1972

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avg rating 4.15 — 61,919 ratings — published 2013

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avg rating 4.00 — 149,966 ratings — published 1999

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avg rating 4.18 — 632,591 ratings — published 1996

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avg rating 3.64 — 358 ratings — published 2007

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avg rating 3.70 — 1,036 ratings — published 2006

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avg rating 3.65 — 1,843 ratings — published 2005

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avg rating 3.85 — 207 ratings — published 2006

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avg rating 4.09 — 16,556 ratings — published 1998

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avg rating 4.28 — 4,302 ratings — published 2004

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avg rating 4.22 — 4,648 ratings — published 2005

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avg rating 3.81 — 20,089 ratings — published 1895

by (shelved 1 time as edge)
avg rating 4.22 — 9,194 ratings — published 1997

by (shelved 1 time as edge)
avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published

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avg rating 4.08 — 1,905 ratings — published 2017

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avg rating 3.58 — 243 ratings — published 2022

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avg rating 4.10 — 9,516 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 1 time as edge)
avg rating 3.82 — 11 ratings — published

“Importantly, Kayfabe also seems to have discovered the limits of how much disbelief the human mind is capable of successfully suspending before fantasy and reality become fully conflated. Wrestling's system of lies has recently become so intricate that wrestlers have occasionally found themselves engaging in real life adultery following exactly behind the introduction of a fictitious adulterous plot twist in a Kayfabe back-story. Eventually, even Kayfabe itself became a victim of its own success as it grew to a level of deceit that could not be maintained when the wrestling world collided with outside regulators exercising oversight over major sporting events.
At the point Kayfabe was forced to own up to the fact that professional wrestling contained no sport whatsoever, it did more than avoid being regulated and taxed into oblivion. Wrestling discovered the unthinkable: its audience did not seem to require even a thin veneer of realism. Professional wrestling had come full circle to its honest origins by at last moving the responsibility for deception off of the shoulders of the performers and into the willing minds of the audience.
Kayfabe, it appears, is a dish best served client-side.”
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At the point Kayfabe was forced to own up to the fact that professional wrestling contained no sport whatsoever, it did more than avoid being regulated and taxed into oblivion. Wrestling discovered the unthinkable: its audience did not seem to require even a thin veneer of realism. Professional wrestling had come full circle to its honest origins by at last moving the responsibility for deception off of the shoulders of the performers and into the willing minds of the audience.
Kayfabe, it appears, is a dish best served client-side.”
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“You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.”
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