I said years ago how the thing about the 30s-60s cable channel range nature shows (say Bear Grillis thru Duck Dynasty) had been how they were recasting “close-to-the-land innate nature skills” as a white thing just as it had been strongly constructed as a red (as in amerindian) thing for decades before

Boxing used to be a field of racial conflict from Jack Johnson through Rocky and HBO-era Mike Tyson at least, the rise of MMA kind of went in parallel with the mainstreaming of ex- and post-Soviet Europeans into white to claim it back, gritty fightin’ is a paleskin thing again

And then there’s the WWE, America’s real volk opera, which has processed every turn in our national drama through gymnastic stock figure caricatures, like commedia dell’arte that’s also a live action Punch-and-Judy