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    Wrestling’s new golden era, packed into a Toronto church basement

    TV shows like Netflix’s ‘GLOW’ help mainstream viewers better understand wrestling. Rather than campy combat, they see performance art. And in Toronto, they see the real thing.

    Pro wrestling’s surprising Prairie roots

    A Lakehead University scholar provides a ‘matside people’s history’ of pro wrestling in 19th-century Manitoba

    Inside the crazy, rowdy world of pro wrestling in Montreal

    Text and photographs by Quebec bureau chief Martin Patriquin

    ‘Push yourself to total self-destruction’

    The Ultimate Warrior, wrestling’s mad genius, passes on in a nimbus of glory