World Wrestling Federation example essay topic

Around the Ring Since the beginning of time man has competed for supremacy, and in today's time nothing has changed, just how the game is played. Professional Wrestling dates back to the early 1900's and late 1800's. The biggest wrestling corporation that many fans can relate to is the World Wrestling Federation. The WWF is a huge corporation but is only one of many and independent circuits across the nation are much smaller than the WWF. Explain and show just how wrestling as a sport from the early to mid 1900's until present time has gone from wrestling to " ", and from classic take downs to phenomenal finishers. Wrestling began to get big in the United states in early 1920's, wrestling didn't have that gigantic following, it was more of a regional market.

Wrestling promoters kept their shows in the region mainly of where their wrestlers were located. Vince McMahon Sr. founded the World Wide Wrestling Federation ( F) and began to put shows together in the New York area around. This established wrestlers like "Classy" Freddie B lassie, "Gorgeous" George, Buddy Rogers, Bruno Sam Martini. These where the guys when wrestling was the real deal, when they could battle it out for the right to be called the best in the world, or in the northern region under the F... Madison Square garden was a common location for the F to put on a show and because of this wrestling began to grow in popularity in the late 40's early 50's. Madison Square Garden at the time was one of the most played in venue's, pro basketball, boxing, and yes, now wrestling.

Wrestling was increasingly popular in New York during the time of Vince Sr. operating the company (Metzler 13). Wrestling gates (ticket prices) where increasingly higher than they had been five years before, and the fan base was continuing to grow, until the American public got a new hero. The cowboy hit the wrestling world very hard, taking its fans and turning them away from the wrestling world. Cowboy shows destroyed american wrestling in the eyes of the public on TV. Wrestling would continue to suffer until "Vince McMahon Jr. would buy the company from his father and turn it into a international phenomenon overnight" (BTM). Wrestling became a industry when Vince Jr. took over as the World Wide Wrestling Federation ( F) became the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the late 1970's with Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, Andre the Giant, Iron Sheik, "The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase, Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, and "Nature Boy" Ric Flair.

These guys are the ones who made it possible for wrestling what it is today. They made wrestling through talent, and everyone knows that wrestling is fake, but these guys do get hurt. Wrestling became a huge industry and because of McMahon's obvious success in the sport, another high dollar man wanted in on the action in 1993. Ted Turner bought the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in 1992 and transformed it into the (WCW), World Championship Wrestling. Turner brought out the guns, acquiring aging talent like, Hogan, Savage, Warrior, Nash and Hall (WCW Magazine 32). The WCW countered the WWF with it's former talent, bring Nash and Hall into the company as renegades from "another federation".

They quickly became known as the Outsiders. A Match was set up with The Outsiders and their third man against, Sting, Luger & Savage at the Bash at the Beach PPV. As the match was reaching it's end, the Outsiders obviously had the upper hand when, "real american" Hulk Hogan's theme hit the PA system and out walked Hogan to save the day for WCW. Hogan entered the ring, and the Outsiders fled to the outside of the ring. Hogan then leaned down to check on Savage and then went to the ropes and looked at the Outsiders. He then turned and dropped the so-called "Leg drop heard around the world".

This brought up the start of the New World Order or the N.W.O... This was the actual turning point in wrestling events or so say Mark Madden and Dave Metzler two of wrestling's biggest analyst's. They state that this event caused so much eruption from fans that wrestling would never be the same and thank god they were right. Wrestling slowly began to change into a family product even though more degrading things were being shown on television. Sex became a more regular ingredient in the weekly showing of the events on cable and satellite televisions across the United States and the World.

The WWF took advantage of the women they had and quickly exploited them by making them sex symbols for the company (Madden 21). Wrestling has gone from family fun to billion dollar markets. There's no longer room for headlock take downs and pile drivers, now everything comes down to Huracanrana's and shooting star presses, Power Bombs and Rock Bottoms. The game has changed, the fan has changed, the entertainers have changed, however, the love of the sport has not. Wrestling is one of the highest rated programs on television according to the Nielsen ratings. So why has wrestling become so large, its quite easy, exposure, and that's exactly why wrestling has gone from wrestling to ".".