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the lie everyone agrees to believe so the show can go on.
means the professional wrestling code of presenting staged, scripted rivalries and outcomes as if they were genuinely real and unrehearsed.
from carny slang from early 1900s traveling circuses and wrestling territories, possibly pig latin for fake or derived from be fake reversed, used by insiders to talk shop without marks catching on.
secrecy codewrestlers stayed in character even off camera, always
real injuries hiddenbroken bones were once explained away as storyline
death of kayfabe1990s wwe admitted matches were predetermined, entertainment
still used todaydescribes any maintained public fiction, beyond wrestling
for instance
hulk hogan vs andre — wrestlemania 3, 1987, sold as a real grudge match
montreal screwjob — 1997 bret hart shoot finish blurred kayfabe and reality
mr mcmahon character — vince mcmahon played evil boss for over two decades
jake the snake roberts — lived kayfabe offstage, rarely broke character publicly