IT’S A TALE AS OLD as time. The old Aesop’s fable of the farmer and the snake has been repeated and quoted by the Greeks, the Romans, peoples of the Middle Ages, and right up into modern times and popular songs. The farmer takes in a frozen snake from out in the cold. He nourishes and supports it, only to have the snake bite and kill him in the end—because, of course, that is its nature. The farmer, in his final moments, regrets helping the snake. But by then, it is too late.
Wrestling promoters have long been characterized in similarly less-than-flattering terms. The industry has been likened
