![]() ![]() The outcome of Avengers movies is pre-determined too, but the millions of people who enjoy them are not idiots. Or a wrestler hoisting an opponent over her head before slamming him to the mat - usually a piece of plywood with a pretty paltry amount of cushioning over it.īecause wrestling is “fake” wrestling fans have a reputation for being suckers, or just not too bright. But there is nothing fake about Maddison Miles leaping off the top rope and landing on several opponents outside the ring. Wrestling is fake, of course, in the sense that the outcomes of matches are pre-determined. It’s one of my favourite pieces from the past year, and one of the magazine’s most-read 2019 stories. I wrote about Miles for the November issue of Halifax Magazine. After five years on the local circuit, she’s gone to England to pursue her dreams there. She started coming to wrestling as a child, decked out in a cape, and eventually stepped into the ring herself. I was about to say decades, but Miles is only 19. Maddison Miles has been a mainstay at those local shows for years. It’s fun to see the big names when they come to town - I don’t think I’ll ever forget the heavy, brooding, magnetic presence of Roman Reigns in the ring - but I particularly enjoy going to the local shows, where most of the performers have day jobs and wrestling is a true passion. Every so often I’ll get together with friends to watch a big event, and a few times a year I’ll head out to the Halifax Forum, the Spryfield Lions rink or the Alderney Landing theatre to watch a show live. ![]() I’ve always enjoyed professional wrestling (to my mother’s ongoing bafflement) and I like writing about it.
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