Dude not everybody knew it was fake, up until the attitude era most people still thought it was real. That’s what killed wrestling, they don’t try to pretend that it’s real anymore

@@ladistar wrestling isn’t dead at all. WWE is terrible and AEW is merely good, but there are 100 indie promotions around the country that are very entertaining. And that’s just in America :) Wrestling will always remain because it’s the art form that best presents pure melodrama.

Well said.

Strider England Gaming same with him

@Strider England Gaming Undertaker has broken kayfabe.

Or it’s just a sign of massive insecurity and it’s just pitiful.

The legendary British wrestler Kendo Nagasaki has never broken Kayfabe and should be on this list.

Andy "The Winner" Vineberg from MCW is absolutely brilliant as a throwback heel manager, and he entirely keeps kayfabe online.

Yeah, actually more than 1 million of people went to his funeral, and is even somewhat of a superhero here in Mexico, even having it's own mini animated series in Cartoon Network like one decade ago about him, saving the world. He had a comic book, was mentioned in a lot of songs like the cumbia "Los Luchadores", and even made lucha libre one of the biggest sports for a few decades from the 60s to the 90s, taking a big spot that made it as important as soccer in that time (Latin America most important sport). El Santo was a phenom even before The Phenom was a thing in the 90s, and with his great "luchador" capabilites made lucha libre trully important to the world, changing how Japan and even USA wrestle in a ring.

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Sammy Lane never herd of him

@@kiezersosay49 Or of spelling.

@@miskatonic6210 lmao

I heard they used to call him "The Steel Man"

In America He was the masked Mexican, I had no.idea He passed did he ever demask？ 7Ripozzle

Movies, TV, comics and toys,he did everything, unlike superman you could see him live!!! wrestling every week!!!

Dave Rindone No one called him that lol “el hombre de acero” (Spanish for man of steel) is Superman’s thing in Mexico too. El Santo was “El enmascarado de plata” or roughly the one in the mask of silver

@@JoseAlberto-sk9lq El Enmascarado de Plata podría traducirse como "The Man in the Silver Mask"

trahapace150 Social media ruins wrestling.

I don’t care if thet do it on social media, everybody nows that is fiction, what really annoys me is the fact that they do it on the shows

@@TheDangerBlog I disagree. I think social media could be used to even more so keep kayfabe alive , but management doesnt give a shit what so ever

@Poison don´t think so bud, she doesn't like virgin internet trolls

Knowtheledge Thelastdayz , you must be a teenager, or at the very least 20. It'll explain a lot.

It's impossible, but some shit they could do better with like seriously stop fucking taking selfies with each other, and all that other goofy shit

ha, i was typing this out then i saw yours.

As soon as he said kayfabe is dead, this instantly came into my head haha!

Take it easy man.

Thank you for saying what needed to be said.

clayton haynes damn I was about to say it and boom it was the first comment

Mr. Bradshaw lol I just saw that movie in Spanish class for some reason and I can understand the movie in Spanish because I can speak Spanish

El Santo is a legend in Mexico

In his mask, even after death

So was blue demon. :)

@@LuchaGangsta when?

juan salvador escobar santiago salud!

juan salvador escobar santiago due to El Santo starting it

Yes

This is one of the reasons I love lucha libre. It's a dedication above and beyond the norm to never be seen without a dragon mask.

Yeahhhh that was bullshit.

But farhat is a Lebanese family isn't it?

Well he was Lebanese-American, born in Lansing Michigan

The iron sheik too never down. Watch his Twitter it's awesome he goes on about Iran

Blackmoore_AJPW82 sabu's uncle right?

The Original Sheik was Sabu's uncle and I've heard he once threatened a man's life who called him Ed Farhat and said he knew him from high school

That's brutal

@@codafett Hahahahaha

yeah i'm sure you did

and now you have hep

And then everyone started clapping?

Original Sheik wouldn’t let visiting wrestlers eat in the same room as him in his house or something along those lines

@evilphoenix 007 That's dedication to being a heel, alright.

outstretchedwings For karaoke afterwards?

If I'm correct he was also buried with his mask on

Yeah man that’s true. El Hijo Del Santo has to change his mask for the one with the cutout part during dinner. I got to see that at an event. That’s commitment

@@JohnGoldBunny Tf?

DJDoubleCee He just broke it lately

he breaks kayfabe all the time

**most of the ones in the list continued the keyfabe after retirement, give it some years and he will probably be on the top 5 if he doesn't break it (not #1 of course), he already got an interview out of keyfabe btw.

He went from dead to biker to feuding with Shawn a lot that afterwards he raised his hand on several occasions.

He only recently started breaking it

Most mexican luchadores live an anonymous life, no one knows their real names until they lose the mask or, in santo's case, until they die.

Lol

The movie was great

Ramses is number 1

Turns out, Ramses is a real douche....

I love those cheesy santo movies,with him whipping on vampires and werewolves.The music in those movies was epic.

Abraham Rivera the hispanic hulk hogan for sure but he was a better wrestler than Hogan

One thing I get a kick out of is that the Mexican promotions still regularly use the 2-out-of-3 falls format that the Gringo promotions used as recently as the '60's; it really helped build up the storylines they were trying to push.....

i came

La manera correcta de decir eso sería, I came here for El Santo, pero igual di click por él.

@@TheRatedOniChannel No fui yo, El traductor de Google decirme a mi otra cosa

@@roninwarrior216 Google Fail

which is dumb because we watch the Avengers and KNOW Chris Evans isn't actually Captain America

@@CButtonshaw I know. I mean even if Kayfabe is dead, that doesn't mean we shouldn't get interesting characters. At the very least, let the wrestlers work on their character and storylines instead of scripting incoherent dribble.

@@awesomecoyote5534 I don't think I EVER thought they were real... maybe the names but not the ppl. Apparently wrestling fans have less intelligence than comic book fans/children? I get having Kayfabe when ppl thought wrestling was a SPORT but it's entertainment now {yes it's athletic & stunt work.... but it's not a sport}

Knowtheledge Thelastdayz it's pretty much all scripted promos in Wwe nowadays maybe not in other promotions but definitely in wwe

*WWE

@@SnipingIsFun it isn't just WWE

@@swaggymilk8306 It is mostly WWE as other companies while they do small things it isn't as major.

Kayfabe ended in 1984 by Eddie Mansfield on John Stossel’s expose on ABC’s 20/20 of pro wrestling. That episode is here on KZfaq. Just use the search terms: Eddie Mansfield POS

Nah, it's the fans

The Great Sasuke.

There is a wrestler in Mexico that is also a priest (that's where they get the inspiration for Nacho Libre) and he officiates in his mask

Diego Bonales his name is El Frey Tormenta

@@MKUltra77715 Fray Tormenta (Fray = some catholic priest denomination)

@@diegohoja it means friar storm

They were talking about mainstream popularity. During the mid to late 1980's, NO ONE was more popular than Hulk Hogan. He was everywhere. Movies. TV. Magazine covers (and I don't just mean wrestling magazines, he was the first pro wrestler to ever be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated). Hulk Hogan covered all forms of media in North America the way El Santo did in Latin America. Possibly even more so, as Hogan was also popular in Europe and Australia, where few people outside Mexico even knew El Santo's name.

Hogan is BS regardless of any other consideration.

@Simply Ravishing you are right there is no S, just like there is no chill on you

@Simply Ravishing well yeah, probable your father didn't even know you were born. You know, You being a bastard

How about Evel Knievel?

Really what role

@@nakiasmith2699 He didn't have a role but his likeness was in the movie as an Easter Egg. Sorry for any confusion.

ROH says hello, as does NJPW, Noah Fulks.

Kayfabe isn't dead, it's just chained up in New Jack's basement.

Ehhh

Piero Giusseppe Salcedo Salcedo #1 (Tim Woods) or #2? I hope you mean #2.

Because he was in the NWA.

Jose Blanco Santo contra Las Momias de Guanajato!! epicness!!