Kayfabe
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kayfabe-186-10581338
title:
Kayfabe
text:
In professional wrestling, kayfabe is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true", specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not staged. The term kayfabe has evolved to also become a code word of sorts for maintaining this "reality" within the direct or indirect presence of the general public. Kayfabe, in the United States, is often seen as the suspension of disbelief that is used to create the non
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Portrayal of staged events as being real
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe
date created:
2004-04-02T21:29:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T15:13:24Z
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