May 5, 2015

Get Real

Jonathan Goodwin is like no escape artist we’ve ever met, mostly because he doesn’t always escape. But his commitment to being the real deal pushes us to look for those little slices of reality where you’d least expect. Like, say, professional wrestling. When you think of professional wrestling, you probably picture cartoonish characters like Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage. But after the Montreal screwjob, the real world lurked just beneath the scripted spectacle of professional wrestling. Simon Adler tells the story of one moment that tore a hole in the fiction of wrestling. 

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