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Professional wrestling : Kiss my ass.(Brief Article)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19990828
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NEW YORK

WHEN the history of sports journalism comes to be written, Norman Mailer, Red Smith and Ring Lardner will undoubtedly have to cede some space to the mostly anonymous chroniclers of professional wrestling. Consider, for example, this classic account by the World Wrestling Federation of its gripping bout at the SummerSlam it hosted in Minneapolis last weekend:

In a "Kiss My Ass" match, Badd Ass Billy Gunn took on The Rock. Mr Ass brought an extremely fat woman with him to ringside, and said that when he beats [sic] The Rock, the People's Champ would have to kiss ...

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