When I was a kid, I was an avid reader of the Apter mags that my Mom would buy for me at the grocery store. One of my favorite parts was the section that gave results of bouts from all around the country in the different territories. You'd see all the standard gimmick matches, sure, but one in particular caught my eye: The 'Shark Cage' match. To my 10-year0-old mind, that sounded like the coolest thing possible. Can you imagine two guys battling in a freaking shark cage while, I presumed, a man-eating shark circled them, threatening to devour the loser and turn him into chum? This sounded like something I had to hunt down and watch immediately. Imagine my disappointment when it turned out there was no danger of death, there was no shark and there wasn't even any water. There was just a stupid little cage (like the one you go shark diving in) in the middle of a ring. The most famous (or infamous) Shark Cage match took place between "Bulldog" Don Kent and Chief Jay Strongbow in Detroit. The winner would be the first one to escape the tiny cage. Because the cage was so small, there was really nothing the two workers could do in terms of high spots, or in fact anything resembling wrestling. It feature lots of punching and choking while the fans sat on their hands and dreamed about Great Whites. Shame on you, Bill Apter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOOxv-LkhMI
