Win Lose or Draw
GOOD VS. EVIL. Back when I was a kid, with no internet and starving for wrestling information, I often revisited my 1979 Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia to find the brief entry for “professional wrestling,” which featured a great black-and-white photo of Bruno Sammartino backdropping Ivan Koloff en route to losing the WWWF title in 1971. But I dreaded reading the actual entry because it went on to describe pro wrestling as “entertainment.”
It was unsettling information, to say the least. I chose to believe my own alternative facts.
Nevertheless, this authoritative source stated that “one of the contestants” usually assumed a “villainous attitude” while his “opponent wins the sympathy of the spectators
