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The mask allows for an unbound individual to express himself in the ring by a loss of the previous identity and the taking on of a new one. Wearing the mask is to challenge the opponent and to often lead into a false sense of security, to take on the manic qualities embodied by the mask, and to refuse them of your true identity. Upon donning the mask, an extrasensory change is undergone and the man becomes psychologically attached to the character he is helping to create, bringing it alive by irrational movements and an incoherent attitude. He loses his own identity and is marked by uncontrolled emotion, without his own will, which has become submissive to that of the mask. To lose the mask is to be revealed as a human being and susceptible to more than just the opposition. With the losing of the mask, the protection and distinctive powers that the mask creates will be gone forever.
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