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khmerhit
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 Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 2:25 am Post subject: Question for Internationalists |
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My question today is, and I sinceerely want to know....
Is World Wide Federation Wrestling really world-wide? |
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Gordon
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 3:43 am Post subject: |
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| Not in Japan. They like kick boxing here. |
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Buck Turgidson
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The Japanese have several different versions of professional wrestling. I think they are partial to the Mexican tradition especially the masks. They also have a thing called "Pancrase" which is professional wrestling posing as mixed martial arts.
K-1 is pretty cool. I miss it, especially the kick-in-the-head knockouts.
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yaramaz
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 6:56 am Post subject: |
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| The Turks have a special fondness for stripped down, greased up wrestling in fields. No big names though. Not WWF. No leotards or tights or bizarre personae. Just simple, basic, back-home wrasslin'. |
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cabbagehead
Joined: 22 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:08 am Post subject: |
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I'd like to use this opportunity to ask a question that has been bugging me for years:
Why is it called the World Series? Do baseball teams from all over the world really take part? |
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Glenski
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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cabbagehead
Joined: 22 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 9:36 am Post subject: |
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Glenski I thank you for your search on my behalf.
Alas my question, which I should have worded better perhaps, was actually why it persists in being called the World series despite no teams from other nations competing.
I did read the sites you referred me to and they all seemed to take it for granted that calling whoever won the thing "World Champions" was perfectly reasonable irrespective of the various theories of how the name originated. None of the sites questioned this and that, really, is my point...
... not how the name originated but why. |
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Gordon
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 9:54 am Post subject: |
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Correction cabbagehead.
There are two Canadian baseball teams in MLB, Toronto and Montreal. So now that Canada is there, you could safely call it the World Series.  |
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