>>11670334It's hard to pinpoint a moment when it happened for everyone, but there's two major events that can be traced.
Frank Gotch vs. George Hackenschmidt is the first huge match that can be proven to be fake or fixed, the audience reportedly leaving in disgust because the match was so badly worked due to Hackenschmidt having a foot injury that made it obvious the entire thing wa s asham.
Pro wrestling continued to be reported in newspapers until 1932, sort of like boxing where it was believed some matches were rigged but they were mostly real, until a promoter by the name of Jack Pfefer got mad that he was screwed out of money so he went to the newspapers and admitted pro wrestling is all fake, giving several match results out as proof of this. Newspapers stopped publishing wrestling results following this and pretty much everyone smartened up soon.
TL;DR : If Jim Cucknette says people think wrasslin was still real in the 70s, he's retarded and a mark
