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Texas has a special place in professional wrestling lore. Countless icons, from “Stone Cold” Steve Austin to Eddie Guerrero to Terry Funk, have called the state home, and in previous eras, when the sport was governed by regional territories, cities like Amarillo, Dallas, and El Paso were thriving hubs of scripted combat. Texas didn’t just conceive famous wrestlers; it also spawned a unique type of match that has forever linked the Lone Star State and hard-core violence in the minds of rasslin’ fans—the Texas Death Match. Created in the Panhandle in the 1960s, the Texas Death Match has retained its place over more than half a century of change, as wrestling transformed from regional entertainment to a global multimedia industry. You won’t see a Texas…
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