Thursday, June 5, 2014

The History Of Professional Wrestling At A Glance

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.

By the conclusion of the nineteenth century, like boxing matches, promoters also put brawling events in arenas. In the few decades, various occasions were held by dissimilar distinct promoters. Championship belts existed though they did not have any real authority. Promoters in 1901 loosely formed National Wrestling Association that awarded a single 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.

Various factors that included storylines that were poorly conceived and a steroid distribution scandal by the federal investigation brought WWF to its lowest point. It was however able to recover with ingenious angles and wrestlers that were young and talented. In 2001, it bought WCW and took control of wrestlers, video library and trademarks wiping it out of existence.

Extreme Championship Wrestling was another league that had a chief impact on pro fighting. It was a minor league that was based in Philadelphia, it gathered following of fans through broadcasts at late night on local sports networks. It promoted a hardcore style with daring and dangerous moves that appeared completely insane. It lasted for about five years and it went bankrupt and their popular hardcore styles were incorporated into the WWF.

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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