Meaning of kayfabed | Babel Free

Definitions

Of events within the industry: portrayed as real, and not scripted or staged.

not-comparable

Examples

“While some respectable sporting journals, most significantly Ring⟳ Magazine, continued to offer⟳ balanced (but kayfabed) coverage of wrestling, the ballyhoo-filled wrestling magazines came to be the main source of printed information for devotees.”

“He also lived in the bizarre, hazy world of half-truth, half-kayfabed fiction that wrestling in 2007 had become⟳. Lest we forget⟳ just how far the line between reality and storyline was blurred, WWE refused to acknowledge the death of Sherri Martel because it would undermine the Vince is dead angle.”

“[King Kong] Bundy and I stood our ground and yelled shit at each other, acting like⟳ we were about to go to blows. Then I scuffed my feet, rubbed my hands together, and went for the slam. I picked him up about halfway before I felt him deadweight me, and I had to let⟳ go of him. I grabbed my back in kayfabed pain.”

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