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Pro wrestling meets formidable challenges in China

World Wrestling Entertainment has started a new service live-streaming Chinese language matches

Published Mon, Dec 26, 2016 · 09:50 PM

Shanghai

WANG Bin looked down. A man wearing a blue, skintight unitard writhed at his feet. Wang grinned. This was the moment he had been waiting for.

So, too, had Cheng Shi. When Wang lifted the writhing man and slammed him to the floor for a three-count, it completed Mr Cheng's dream of watching a professional wrestler - battling in that most American of fake spectacles - who hails from China.

"I feel very proud and …

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