>youtube.com/watch?v=jl3WMjHPovUThe thing that makes this video so cool isn't so much that it's riot footage but the every circumstance and piece of context that made the people in that arena go ape shit
Context: Ox baker's heart punch was kayfabe'd as a life threatening maneuver after two seperate ocassions where a wrestler coincidentally died some time after stepping in the ring with Ox.
A worked sport, the face/heel dynamic, a unique acting method called "kayfabe", the way the promoters back then educated the audience on everything that happened. The more i think about the factors that led to that riot the more bizarre it seems and the cooler the footage becomes. I wish we could still be able to care about wrestling this much