The Unreal Story of Professional Wrestling
- The Unreal Story of Professional Wrestling
The Unreal Story of Professional Wrestling is a television documentary dealing with the true history of professional wrestling. The documentary talked about professional wrestling's beginnings right up until the Monday Night Wars era of professional wrestling. Much of the footage used in the documentary was filmed in 1997, with both the promotions of World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment taking part of the documentary (Since the intial airing of the documentary, World Championship Wrestling has since become a subsidiary of World Wrestling Entertainment)
The special was narrated by Steve Allen.
The documentary was produced and broadcast by the A&E Network in 1998.
External links
* [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/unreal_story_of_pro_wrestling/ rottentomatoes.com]
* [http://www.aetv.com/listings/episode_details.do?episodeid=189394 Official A&E Network website]
* [http://www.wrestlingperspective.com/UnrealVideo.html Unreal Stories]
* [http://sheldongoldberg.blogspot.com/2007/07/thoughts-on-wrestling-history-special.html Sheldon Goldberg on Wrestling: Thoughts on Wrestling History]
* [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mwrestle.html The Straight Dope: Is professional wrestling real ?]
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