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Part One: Vince McMahon, History's Greatest Monster

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Wrestling

In the late 1920s and early 30s, other people were innovating wrestling too. Billy Sandow would test new recruits for kind of this wrestling business that they're building in his own private ring. This kind of period is when they invent the concept of wrestling having a go home sequence. Toots also introduced the concept of the no contest and double count out.

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