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How Michael Cole Got Over
Hours before any wrestling began, Michael Cole sat at the announcers’ table next to the ring. The stands in the Fairborn, Ohio, Nutter Center were empty. In the ring, wrestlers in street clothes worked through slow-motion rehearsals of their matches for …