Comments on: Kayfabrication

By: FNN

FNN — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:55:56 +0000

Search “Bearcat Wright” plus “Gene LeBelle” for an earlier famous “screwjob.” Wright wouldn’t give up the local title at the appointed time. Promotion enforcer Gene LeBelle had to be called in to remove the problem.

By: Slovenian Guest

Slovenian Guest — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:43:23 +0000

It’s kayfabe everywhere. At least in wrestling they go home with broken bones and concussions; it’s real in that regard. There’s more kayfabe on CNN than on the Wrestling Channel. It would be only fair to rename the damn thing to KFB already.

The lamestream media is basically one-third native advertising, one-third scare mongering, and one-third outright government propaganda, all held together by said kayfabe.

Barry O. even reads responses to hecklers from the teleprompter…

By: Grurray

Grurray — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:38:51 +0000

A notable instance of kayfabe being broken was the infamous Montreal Screwjob. The interesting part about it was McMahon committed the screwjob, thus breaking the kayfabe, but then rolled it into a larger kayfabe that included the backstage fight and subsequent feud. It lasted years until they reconciled a few years ago. Fans and aficionados are still debating to this day who knew what and when, what was planned or not, what was real and what was fake. In many ways it was probably the peak of wrestling as performance art because theatrics seamlessly and permanently blurred with reality.