Contrary
Wrestling
Wrestling noun - The sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down.
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Contrary and wrestling are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contrary" instead an adjective "Wrestling".
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- On the contrary, pretty much all wrestling fans are fully aware of the fact that the sport itself technically "fake," but still enjoy it in spite of that (or perhaps because of it).
Source: Pro Wrestling Is Real -
Contrary to his underdog image, Dusty was a tank in his prime, known and feared throughout various permutations of the National Wrestling Alliance.Working in various wrestling organizations since the late sixties, Dusty joined Jim Crockett Promotions in 1978.
Source: Wrestling / Dusty Rhodes - After Kazuchika Okada had taken the pro wrestling world by surprise and New Japan by storm upon his return from his North American "excursion", Bullet Club recruited AJ Styles in 2014, who insisted that contrary to popular belief Okada was still the lost kid he met in the states, to deal with him.
Source: You Are Not Ready
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