To step inside the muggy, homely dirt-floored Dallas Sportatorium was to step inside a monument to the art of pro wrestling.
The tin barn-turned-wrestling temple that stood on the corner of Industrial Boulevard and Cadiz Street in Dallas, Texas, lacked the architectural handsomeness that modern arenas do, but for decades, it housed the biggest names in the business. Wild brawls unfolded as cheers echoed off the metal walls. Blood dampened the mat; beer soaked through the bleachers.
The Sportatorium was an intimate building, one that...
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