Breaking the Ice

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Breaking the Ice #85 - Kayfabe

johnkeating

on Feb. 10, 2009

People seemed to enjoy seeing “El Arquitecto” last week so I figured, while I had him out of the toybox, I might as well do something else with him.

This was inspired by a lot of masked pro wrestlers of the past like The Destroyer and El Santo. Both who were NEVER seen without their masks and even buried with the masks on. That’s some commitment.

“Kayfabe” is an old pro wrestling term that meant keeping up the illusion that it was real. The wrestlers would say that to each other if there was someone around them not “smartened” up to how wrestling really worked, so as not to break the illusion.