Essay on Professional Wrestling

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Professional Wrestling

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Professional Wrestling

When some people hear the word wrestling they think of “2 points takedown” or
headgear and singlets. But most people think of the WWF, WCW, NWO, and the
WolfPac. They think of names such as Hollywood Hogan, Sting, Stone Cold, Diamond
Dallas Page, and Golberg. If you have been alive in today’s TV culture, you have
undoubtedly heard these names.
Although professional wrestling has been enjoying newfound success lately, it is
not a new sport by any means. Professional Wrestling has been around since the 1800’s
but it was mainly confined to barns and other small areas with people betting on the
winner. These were often bloody and dangerous fights. Dangerous for the wrestlers as
well as the audience as sometimes the fight would spill out into the crowd.
Professional Wrestling became more of a spectator sport in the early to mid
1900’s, but it resembled very little of what we think of Professional Wrestling today.
Today, as opposed to old-time wrestling, it is just a spectator event with people cheering
for a “hero” against a “vilian”. Most all matches are set up in a way that there is always
one crowd favorite, and one that the crowd hates.
Today Professional Wrestling is no longer a sport but a entertainment industry.
The fights are rigged, the wrestling is fake, and the only thing real about wrestling is the
money. Millions of dollars are generated by professional w

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