[Manic_Episode]

Late 70s or early 80s Jim Klobuchar, columnist for the Star Tribune and Father of Senator Amy Klobuchar, had a talk show on PBS and was interviewing Verne Gagne.

Klobuchar inevitably asked Verne if wrestling was fake.

Verne grabbed Klobuchar and put him in his signature move, the sleeper hold.

Klobuchar went unconscious and Verne laid him on the floor and then took over the show explaining to the TV audience that wrestling was indeed real.

Sidenote: Verne recently killed a fellow nursing home resident via bodyslam but no charges were filed due to Vernes dementia.

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I remember Verne Gagne. He was an old timer who undoubtedly participated in real wrestling matches (like Lou Thez)before wrestling trended toward show biz in the late 40s. But by the 70s and 80s wrestling had been scripted for a long time.