Tuesday, December 22, 2015

History Of WWE

By Wanda Rosner


World Wrestling entertainment is a American based entertainment company which basically comprises of professional wrestling, the major revenues of this company comes from film productions, music, advertisement and also direct sales of various products. WWE aims to the promotion of professional wrestling which was earlier founded by McMahon and Mondt as Capitol wrestling Corporation.

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.

So the NWA decided to let the Buddy Rogers, CWC's wrestler to participate in the championship. He won the NWA world heavy weight Championship. However, Mondt did not like Rogers to fight outside the North east as it was the region which the CWC controlled.

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.

Later Vincent McMahon became the only head of the WWWF in 60's just after the retirement of Mondt. McMahon was also one of the board of directors of the NWA, also there were several matches held between the NWA and the WWWF champions. However, most of the matches ended without showing any results.

Later WWE decided to start two branches of it, namely the RAW and the SmackDown. There were lot of talented wrestlers that couldn't find their place in the WWE ring, therefore providing them another platform was necessary. Raw and Smackdown followed the same protocols for entertainment. They continued to divide and create separate shows such as the ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling). They also launched combined shows of Raw and SmackDown under the tag Raw Supershow.

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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