Exposed! Pro Wrestling's Greatest Secrets

Exposed! Pro Wrestling's Greatest Secrets

Infobox Film
name = Exposed! Pro Wrestling's Greatest Secrets


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caption = Cover of the VHS version of the documentary.
director = Don Weiner
producer = Don Weiner
Troy A. Norton
Bruce Nash (executive)
writer = Dave Boone
Michael Miller
Bruce Nash
narrator = Nick Bakay
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distributor = NBC Television
released = September 22, 1999
runtime = 52 minutes
country =
language = English
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imdb_id = 0499206

"Exposed! Pro Wrestling's Greatest Secrets" is a 1998 documentary about professional wrestling. It was first aired on NBC television on November 1, 1998, and released on VHS on September 22, 1999 to overwhelmingly negative reviews. Nick Bakay narrates. The program reaired January 16, 2008 on MyTV.

Plot

The stars of "Exposed! Pro Wrestling's Greatest Secrets" are eight real-life professional wrestlers who wear masks and work under pseudonyms to conceal their true identities. The reason given is that, by breaking "kayfabe" (literally, "the secrets of the business"), their careers and even their well-beings are at risk.

The documentary was roundly criticized for being sensationalist, misleading, and outdated in the presentation of the "secret tricks." Critics in and out of the wrestling business contend that many of the "secrets" exposed were already widely known by fans to begin with, and others were so obscure as to be non-notable.

"Exposed! Pro Wrestling's Greatest Secrets" was filmed mostly in a empty Los Angeles arena, although an audience was present for some scenes.

This program has achieved a certain level of notoriety among professional wrestling fans as an object of ridicule, and served to introduce the term "stunt granny" [ [http://www.wrestlecrap.com/oldinductions.html Exposed! Pro Wrestling's Greatest Secrets Revealed! Two words: STUNT GRANNY.] ] to the professional wrestling lexicon.

Participants

The wrestlers' names:
*The All-American Boy
*Booker: Harley Race
*Colossus
*Ben Hurt
*Brash Knuckles
*Brute Force
*Private Pain
*Skullduggery: Haku/Meng (Tonga Fifita)
*Slither
*The Referee

Reaction

While most of the professional wrestling world refrained from acknowledging the program, the night following its airing, Ernest "The Cat" Miller entered the ring during "WCW Monday Nitro" and sarcastically shouted in a melodramatic tone to the audience, "Now you know all our secrets!"

Likewise, Mick Foley on "WWF Monday Night RAW" announced, to tag partner Al Snow, "We didn't do so well last week, but last night, the secrets of professional wrestling were revealed to me!" Foley also poked fun at the program several times in his autobiography, "Have a Nice Day!"

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