This video examines the history of professional wrestling's core illusion known as "kayfabe," how it was protected for ...

Kayfabe is dead, rejoice all ye who come here. Between WWE Unreal, the murder-like nature of AEW 'fighting,' and now a haunted house at Universal Studios recreating backstage areas once forbidden to ...

Ahead of his supposed final WrestleMania, John Cena has become a bad guy. It was one of the most shocking moments in recent WWE history, and a few weeks ago in Belgium, he picked one kid out of the ...

The notion that kayfabe remains a sacred, living element of professional wrestling is an idea that can finally be declared deceased. With the fake realism era coming to an end, this development may be ...

Former WWE star MVP has discussed the end of kayfabe, claiming that Vince McMahon was responsible for its decline in professional wrestling. Kayfabe, the term used for the suspension of disbelief in ...

Does kayfabe still apply in modern WWE? I know — it’s the sort of cliched topic that wrestling forum types can debate for hours on end. But after the year we’ve just seen, we need to ask the question ...

In WWE lore, the demise of kayfabe — pro wrestling parlance for sticking to the storyline under any and all circumstances — first began on May 19, 1996. At the conclusion of a main event steel cage ...

Greetings, comrades! It is I, your El Presidente, reporting to you live from my underground bunker beneath a replica WrestleMania ring, where I am currently hiding from CIA operatives who discovered ...

Never mind gnomes or the John Cena cologne set, the real fuss these days in WWE Shopzone matters is over their line of “Kayfabe tees,” currently available on ...

The rivalry between Cody Rhodes and Pat McAfee was a major part of WWE heading into WrestleMania 42, but the two recently appeared together publicly in a surprising reunion. For wrestling fans, though ...

WWE’s Monday Night Raw is now a fixture of Netflix programming, but with their next project, WWE and Netflix are taking fans behind the moments they see happen in the ring. That project is a new ...

When reality meets Kayfabe, wrestling fans win. Some of the best promos in wrestling history were rooted heavily in reality. Let’s look back at Mick Foley’s “anti-hardcore” promos in ECW. The reality ...