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"I think the very fact that Jesse won because of his celebrity is most distressing," says Steve Schier, a political-science professor at Carleton College. "There was this generational appeal for a wrestler by young voters who never cast a ballot before. It was not clear if they cared whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready To Rumble | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

Then comes Jesse.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready To Rumble | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

"Jesse was a brawling-type, punch-and-kick kind of guy, and he had this big flying elbow drop," says wrestler Lawler, the man who nearly broke comedian Andy Kaufman's neck with a pile driver. Now that politics and pro wrestling have melded, Lawler is contemplating a run for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready To Rumble | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

There may be no more appropriate lab in which to study the Jesse phenomenon than the Mall of America, which is referred to by all six or seven cynics in Minnesota as the Fall of America. On an upper level there's a Planet Hollywood next to a Hooters. Several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready To Rumble | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

Erin wouldn't even have voted if not for Jesse, but Trista wasn't that impressed. A third waitress, not crazy about either Jesse or being a Hooters girl, asked TIME to make up a name for her. O.K., we can do that. "I think it's stupid to cut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready To Rumble | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

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