8 Questions Only WWE Kayfabe Era Children Would Understand

2. Why Isn't Parts Unknown On My Globe?

Parts Unknown wasn't really a town or a fixed location, it was simply a way for Howard Finkel to express the question mark next to €œPlace of origin€ on a wrestler's bio. The idea was that the individual in question was either a) from the last remaining uncharted depths of the Earth, or b) so violent and out of control that even asking them their vitals was a life-threatening affair. In any case, as a child, I always wondered where these unknown parts could be. Surely, they were on this planet (because come on, this isn't science fiction) but nowhere on any globe or map could I find any telltale pockets of black marked €œcoming soon.€ I wondered if somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, there was some secluded chain of islands where face-painted berzerkers ate freshly-killed saber-tooth tiger under a purple sky like a heavy metal album cover come to life€ a place simply too savage for any cartographer to venture. Obviously, I thought, they all just said €œwhatever€ and painted it ocean blue.