The History Of Professional Wrestling In Brief

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.

Tussling grew as a result of the on journey carnival strongman who would in most cases challenge anybody to fight him inside the ring or just last ten minutes. Time later the carnies found out that they could be able to make money by charging entry fee to the crowd that watched the matches rather than rely on the entry fee of the fighters. The fighters identified themselves with fake names and encouraged betting by playing the dislike of crowd.

As the nineteenth century neared its end, organizers put events in arenas just like boxing. For some decades, numerous occasions on grappling got held by dissimilar individual promoters. There was presence of championship belts which held no real authority. The National Wrestling Association was formed in 1901 by promoters and it gave a sole belt for championship.

Regional leagues were made from the division of tussling by NWA after the Second World War. A gentleman agreement was decided on not to take talent from another one or expand their arena into the region of another. The Northeast federation which was known as World Wide Wrestling Federation was a slightly rebellious, after the shortening of the name to World Wrestling Federation the gentleman agreement was almost immediately broken.

The last standing NWA in the 1980s only operated in Southeast. In fact the league was known as NWA and later changed to World Championship Wrestling after it was purchased. It outdid the WWF successfully and rose to higher levels where it was able to woo top talents from competitors and their rating shot up.

WWF experienced its lowest moments at a time when several factors that included poorly conceived storylines and federal investigation on the distribution of steroids hit it. Inventive approaches and young talented wrestlers were able to see its rise to recovery. It took over the WCW in 2001 and came over control of video library, wrestlers and trademarks making WCW disappear from existence.

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.

A lawsuit by the World Wildlife Fund filled a successful lawsuit that saw the WWF change its name to World Wrestling Entertainment due to their ambiguous acronyms. As a result of the fall of ECW a grittier style of brawling has moved into the mainstream making the blood chilling fights have a bigger fan following throughout the world.




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