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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 9. 1966.

Hero lost!

Hero lost!

The hero doesn't always win, however, King Kong won much to the anger of the crowd, who had paid much, seen little and, what's more, had their hero cruelly beaten.

However, this is the way of wrestling ... a colourful and entertaining sport which is now reaching the proportions of a big entertainment business. In America it is estimated that there are more than 600 arenas catering for more than 25 million cash-paying customers. In addition, there is wide television coverage. Wrestling has also flourished in Australia, where some tv networks finish off their evening programme with an hour of wrestling.

There will be many more like King Kong. They will come and go, entertaining us or at least letting us air some of those primitive repressions that still exist in the people of this enlightened age.