For decades, pro wrestling did everything it could to try and protect the secrets of the artform.
Wrestlers would hide their actual names and their real-world friendships with opponents they professed to hate, instead presenting a glamorous life of sequins and spandex. But that changed as the world did. In the 1990s and 2000s, as reality TV ascended and we all became savvier about “structured reality,” what was previously a whispered claim of fakery became an open conversation.
