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The keyword isn't a typo. It isn't a forgotten trash product. is a shorthand for a moment in time when professional wrestling tried to become high art through low melodrama. It failed commercially—hence its obscurity. But it succeeded artistically in ways we are only now beginning to understand.
The "Academy" part mattered because these young wrestlers (like a young Lance Storm or a pre-WWF Chris Candido) hated the soap elements. They were trained in holds and counters, but in '93 they were being asked to cry in locker room promos or accuse their tag partner of sleeping with their valet. The tension between their technical purity and the required melodrama is what makes this era so compelling. academy wrestling soap 93