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Part Five: Vince McMahon, History's Greatest Monster

Behind the Bastards

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Vince Vaughn's Attempt to Kill Kayfabe

In the late 1980s and early 90s, wrestling was mostly treated as a real sport under the law. The modest regulation that wrestling existed under cost money and the McMans weren't about to stand for that. This is the first time that a wrestling promoter publicly acknowledges that wrestling isn't real. So next, it's a good thing no wrestlers die in the ring after this episode because that's not what this entire series is building towards.

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