The internet is forever.

It’s changed shape a few times since we all got our grubby hands on it, and the rate of changes pushed through by those billionaire boffins in Silicon Valley might be faster than any of us normies can keep up with, but if you just assume everything on this and every screen is for keeps, you’re best equipped for whatever comes next. Yes, posts on socials can be deleted, old websites can be give a scorched-earth treatment and Google itself might not quite be the internet detective it once was. But it’s sat in a server room somewhere, ignored like a lot of lost media but there all the same. Alive, if not kicking.

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Wrestlers forget this sometimes when trying to peddle some false narrative via worker-speak that was more effective before anybody could fact check every single detail a frazzled memory can summon. Incredible archives such as HistoryOfWWE, Cagematch and ProFightDB can prove or disprove just how close or far away a wrestler is when trying recall exactly how many towns they made. Wrestlenomics and WrestleTix have the numbers – all kinds of numbers – even when promoters want to provide their own. The likes of the Wrestling Observer and Pro Wrestling Torch archives sit as neatly(ish) ordered(ish) collections of the gossip, scuttlebutt and industry talk from the time they were published.

Then, behind cobwebbed corners and long-abandoned Geocities hyperlinks, there’s…

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