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AL CASTLE'S TAKE

THE WORLD IS IN FLUX … SO, TOO, IS THE “500”

that shut down wrestling companies around the globe for more than a third of the evaluation period. A national reckoning on institutional racism that spurred us to more closely look at the names (and skin tones) of the wrestlers on our list. And a new milestone “500.”

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