History of professional wrestling - Wikipedia
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A tradition of combining wrestling and showmanship may originate in the early 1800s in Western Europe, Britain and Ireland, when showmen presented wrestlers under names such as ""Herculean" Flower" and “Edward, the steel eater”, “Gustave d’Avignon, the bone wrecker”, or “Bonnet, the ox of the low Alps” and would wrestle one another and challenge members of the …
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