John LaRocca and Garrett Gonzales pull back the curtain thanks to the June 1985 Wrestling Observer Newsletter — a month that revealed a growing gap between wrestling's image and its reality. The business was being sold as bigger than ever, but the Observer told a different story.
They dig into promoters inviting mainstream media in and risking exposure of the business, the AWA out-drawing the WWF in their own territory, wild road stories involving the Road Warriors and Butch Reed, and Jim Crockett Promotions leveraging TBS to launch a national expansion.
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