Guest column: A 'crazy and improbable' WrestleMania moment
By ELI DAITCHMAN, with footnotes by Avi Stern - For SLAM! Wrestling

Growing up in my neighborhood in Queens, New York, being a professional wrestling fan was not something you publicized. People considered it low class and trashy. But as a child, every Sunday I would visit my grandparent's house and I remember watching Sunday morning wrestling along with promos for their pay-Per-views, featuring Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Lex Luger, and Yokozuna to name a few stars of that era. That was my first exposure to the wrestling world, and I was immediately drawn into both the violence -- we lived in a (thankfully) safe neighborhood where there was rarely any fighting -- and the colorful characters -- we had colorful characters, but not THAT colorful. I didn't tell my parents, because I knew they'd freak out, and my grandparents either didn't know or didn't care what I was watching.
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