A Look Into The History Of Professional Wrestling

By Minnie Whitley


Pro fighting is a type of entertainment that is seen it terms of a game and a performing art, it is very common in the Latin America, Europe, North America and Japan. Its scripted form has in most cases been a subject of criticism owing to the fact that it is of a deceiving nature when compared with other fighting games such as boxing, martial arts and amateur brawling. None of the major promoter or wrestler has denied existence of prearranged outcome of matches. A look into the history of professional wrestling is as abridged below.

The wandering fiesta strongman that in many instances posed a fight challenge in the ring or just last for a few minutes can be said to have given rise to emergence of grappling. Later in time, the carnies came to a realization that they could make more money than they were collecting from fighting participants by levying entry charges to crowds that came to cheer. The fighters gave the impression of bad guys to the fans in order encourage them to bet.

During the end of the nineteenth century, events were put in arenas by the promoters just like boxing. Many grappling events were held by various different individual promoters in a few decades. Championship belts had no real authority despite their existence. The National Wrestling Association was loosely organized by Promoters in 1901 which awarded a sole championship belt.

Regional leagues were formed when NWA divided brawling sometime after the world war two had come to a standstill. A gentleman agreement was settled that prohibited tapping of talent from other confederations or enlarging their arena into the agreed confederation. The Northeast federation known by name of World Wide Wrestling Federation turned defiant, immediately after shortening their name to being World Wrestling Federation they broke the informal agreements.

The only remaining longstanding area NWA by 1980s was only operational in the Southeast. It was in real fact called the NWA before it got purchased and its name converted to World Championship Wrestling. It was successful in outdoing the WWF and for a period of time it rose to top level as it was able to entice top talents from rival and hence their rating went higher.

The lowest moments in the WWF occurred after various factors including below par conceived storylines and the federal investigation on steroids distribution surrounded it. Ingenious approaches and youthful talented wrestlers came to its aid making it recover. It bought WCW on the period of 2001 and managed its video library, trademarks and wrestlers which made WCW become a history.

The Extreme Championship Wrestling also was a league that influenced greatly the pro tussling. It was a small league that acquired fans through its broadcasting on local sports airwaves at late night. Their fighting styles incorporated rough styles that are risky and audacious making it look insane. It quickly went bankrupt and was purchased by WWF who embraced the blood chilling fighting styles.

World Wildlife Fund won a successful court case that saw WWF amend their name to being called World Wrestling Entertainment so as to remove ambiguity that was a result of the acronyms. Absorption of the grizzly styles of fighting in the mainstream has seen the sport attract larger fan bases who are obsessed with the adrenalin packed fights.




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