Quote Originally Posted by fasterspider
My grandmother used to goto Madison Square Garden in the 40s and 50s to watch wrestlers like Gorgous George. My grandma was only 4'10" tall and she came alive when wrestling was on. She would curse them and jump around in her chair like it was life & death.
I have always known wrestling to be fake or choreographed but my grandma liked it, so it was cool with me for a long time. I have not watched wrestling since the 80s, it got too flamboyant for me.
Some of the wrestling your grandmother used to see may have been real. It was only around the time of gorgous george and such that wrestling started to go fake. Before then, the wrestling was real, but the matched could go on for a half hour or more and people just didn't want to watch that long so they started taking dives to shorten the matches so they could have more.

At least thats how I understand it.