joi, 17 decembrie 2015

WWE- The Beginning

By Wanda Rosner


World Wrestling Entertainment or WWE is a popular sport which is watched nowadays. Whether it is a kid or an adult everyone is interested to know about the latest happening in the ring of WWE wrestling.

Both of them later formed a Capitol Wrestling Corporation also known as CWC, which later became today's WWE. It was 1993 when then joined the National wrestling Alliance when they gave more legitimacy to the business. It was also later joined by Vincent McMahon which made sure that a McMahon will always be at the head of the business or company. The company soon witnessed the largest booking at the National Wrestling Alliance with a significant number. After few years it began aired their first wrestling show on television.

Just as in other professional wrestling promotions, the shows performed by the wrestlers of WWE are not legitimate but merely for entertainment. It has storyline, it is scripted and the matches held are choreographed, it includes moves and stunts that can be harmful for the wrestlers if not performed properly.

The WWE wrestling company has its history way back from 1950 when it was started by Vincent McMahon and Mondt, which is now handled by him and his wife Linda McMahon. WWE is said to be the inheritance of the McMahon family so even his son, Shane McMahon has joined the corporation. Majority of the number of shares of WWE is under the McMahons.

Both McMahon and Mondt want him to defend his title, but being the title holder Roger had to choices either to defend the title or to pay 25,000. In which roger chose to defend the title and ultimately lost the battle. This made McMahon and Mondt upset and they decide to leave NWA. This made the creation of the new wrestling corporation, World Wide Wrestling Federation or WWWF.

On 2002, the WWF (World Wrestling Entertainment) revealed that it was changing its company name and also the name by which it is branded as, WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment). It had to face many disputes due to this such as the music used, the change in funds raised etc. But the company's main motive to change the name was to bring the viewer's focus on entertainment. It later announced that it will not use the full name and only call itself as "WWE". It reflected WWE's entertainment expansion outside the ring and spreading the goal of contacting entertainment companies and getting into television, holding live events and also producing films.

WWE is a basically considered a professional wrestling entertainment. This simply means that it consists of role plays, dramas and theatrics and pure fighting. The wrestlers work out the Drama in the stage according to the story line but the fight is real, the fight is captured without retakes and cuts in between.

McMahon was later found to hire Hulk Hogan and many other wrestlers and started selling the WWF television shows to several stations and on VHS outside the north-eastern territory. WWF got a great response from the viewers and it made a lot of publicity, but they also caught up in the conflicts with the NWA and other wrestling promoters. It began happening especially when McMahon started taking wrestlers from different groups. Despite of all the chaos it was McMahon's efforts that created the WWF which is today known as WWE or the World Wrestling Entertainment. It changed the way people enjoyed sports and made huge success in entertainment world.




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