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FROM THE VAULT: Stu Saks Comes Clean (October 2017)
The following column was first published in the October 2017 edition of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine.
FROM the DESK OF...
STU SAKS
FOR NEARLY 40 years I’ve kept a secret that practically everyone already knows. So I guess it’s not really a secret, just something I wouldn’t allow myself to talk about. It’s very similar to when Vince McMahon finally weighed the pluses and minuses and decided it was time to admit that what his company presented was not actually sport, but rather sports entertainment. The men and women in the ring were extremely athletic, but what they were doing was not competition in the most literal sense.
That admission angered a lot of fans, most of whom already knew the secret but resented the notion that it was being spoken by the most important man in the industry.
McMahon had a financial reason to go public with the truth. The only way he could free himself from the costly jurisdiction of various state athletic commissions was to admit that pro wrestling wasn’t an actual athletic contest. It didn’t turn out to be the ruination of his business, like so many said it would, now did it?
There is no tangible reason to discuss my secret. The only reason to do it is because, well, it’s just time. And, like I said, the only news here is that I’m actually saying it.
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