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“Union membership rates in the UK’s major sports exceeds 90%,” said Dr Malcolm, “but wrestling is traditionally non-unionised; only recently has actors’ union Equity begun to represent wrestlers. (What makes this particularly ironic is that dramatic performance is also highly unionised, with Equity operating one of the last ‘closed shops’ in the UK until outlawed in 1990). Finally, there is no singular governing body for wrestling or what organisational theorists call a dominant self-regulator.”