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Kayfabe Breakdown

2:50 PM, Oct 7, 2009 • By MICHAEL GOLDFARB
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A huge heel turn by Linda McMahon -- the wife of WWF/WWE founder Vince McMahon and newly-minted Republican candidate for Senate in Connecticut -- this afternoon as her campaign sends out a release that includes the email addresses of hundreds of people. Whether all the emails on the list are "real" is not clear, but among the over the top rope email addresses seem to be several professional wrestlers and their hangers on. THE WEEKLY STANDARD has combed the list and come up with the following addresses that we suspect may belong to well known wrestlers, though we have not confirmed the emails, and they could be "fake." Here are the email handles and, if you're not a smart mark like us, you can see the names we think they correspond to after the jump below:

MARK.BATTISTA@xxx.com
rickflair@xxx.com
clidell@xxx.com
Nobbs3325@xxx.com
hardyboyz4555@xxx.com
test23@xxx.com
matbandit4life@xxx.com
ultimatedragon619@xxx.com
WCW1Pac@xxx.com
mr.wrestlemania788@xxx.com
jeffhardysgurl23@xxx.com
hhh@xxx.com
jeffhardy2297@xxx.com
mikeknoxville1@xxx.com
sable60@xxx.com
rudpoo64@xxx.com
foleymon@xxx.com

Conspicuously absent from this list -- the Hogans, the Godfather, JBL, Kurt Angle, Eric Bischoff, and the Hart Family.

Special thanks to WWE experts JVL and BP for the assist on this. Our guesses, in order, after the jump:

Batista
Nature Boy Rick Flair
UFC Champ Chuck Lidell
Brian Nobbs
Matt Hardy
The Ghost of Test
The Brooklyn Brawler?
Yoshihiro Asai
Sean Waltham -- X-PAC
Shawn Michaels
Jeff Hardy's Girlfriend, of course.
Triple H -- The Game -- The Cerebral Assassin -- The King of Kings
Jeff Hardy
Mike Knox
Sable
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Mankind -- Cactus Jack -- Dude Love