Anxious Elder Millenial

Wrestling fan or not... you should read this.

the hair being so thick it overlaps his pants?????

ROSE: Okay, so back to Mexican transvestite wrestling. Back in '95, Eddie turns up at a show, and he's wearing a wrestling mask, and he gives me and my circus performers masks. No one knew who Eddie was, so we could walk around in the crowd and do these little mock fuckin' wrestling matches. We started thinking, wow, let's do wrestling as part of the show. And, well, what if the rules are changed? What if they wear dildos? What if the first one who can force it into the other one's mouth for a 1-2-3 count wins? And it's Mexican transvestite wrestling. So from '96 to '98 we basically did a wrestling show with the Jim Rose Circus opening for it. And because I'd told people that Eddie had helped me come up with the idea, people decided Eddie was Billy Martinez, "The Barrio Bottom," underneath that mask. I had hundreds of kids in every city I went to asking, "Is Eddie really Billy Martinez, 'The Barrio Bottom'?" They don't even know what bottom means in gay culture or whatever. I ran into Eddie a year later—I was really dreading running into him because I knew it'd been all over the press—but he just smiles at me and goes, "I've been asked about that Mexican transvestite wrestler thing a hundred times this year." Just looked at me and rolled his eyes.