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WHEN it comes to pro wrestling, you're either a devoted fan or indifferent; there is no in-between.

Non-fans, for example, may have missed the fact World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), the world's largest pro wrestling company, regularly tours Australia "playing" to packed-out stadiums; in 2007 they broke wrestling attendance records at Rod Laver Arena with a crowd of more than 15,000 fans.

For the uninitiated, WWE is a hybrid of sport and theatre; of hulking musclemen and women and outrageous theatrics.

Matches are "simulated", which means outcomes are fixed and all moves highly choreographed and all involved — the wrestlers, their promoters and even the excitable ringside announcers — are players in a high-camp soap opera of intricate plot lines involving feuds, fights, adultery and even the occasional love child.