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The marquee names read like a wrestling fan’s dream team of the glorious 1980s.
That was the era when the spectacle emerged from its dark cocoon in dingy arenas on Saturday afternoons and into the mainstream.
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Names like Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka, Joseph “Road Warrior Animal” Laurinaitis, Paul “Mr. Wonderful” Orndorff, Chris “King Kong Bundy” Pallies and Harry Masayoshi Fujiwara, known as Mr. Fuji.
Snuka, Bundy, Fujiwara are now dead.
But after they went to the squared circle in the sky, Snuka and Fujiwara were diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, their lawyer says.