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Burlington, Vermont - October 2, 2004
The World Wrestling Entertainment tour rolled into Burlington Saturday night for it's "Raw Live" show at Memorial Auditorium. And just like years past, Wrestling fans faced off with protestors. Those opposed to W-W-E style wrestling say it promotes homophobia and violence against women. The group points to a display just before the show took place -- where a male and female wrestler reportedly pretended to fight for fans.
"If they see it glorified that way, it re enforces that that's a good way or acceptable way to treat somebody in their life and it's not," said Wendy Huff, who opposes pro-wrestling.
But wrestling fans say the protesters are ridiculous and that wrestling is purely entertainment.
"We know what's fake and what's real," said George Carpenter. "We can understand it. Nobody's actually getting hurt in the ring. It's entertainment. That's all there is to it."
According to police, there were no major clashes between the fans and protesters.
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