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As time has been going on violence has been a form of entertainment. Over time we as people have evolved and the form of entertainment has too. Television has become one of the most popular forms of entertainment. When you mix up some violence into television there is always an audience that will watch. To keep this audience watching you must add storylines and characters. The male soap opera of professional wrestling is born.
Professional wrestling is the form of entertain and sports mixed together to get sport-entertainment. Just like any other form of entertainment there needs to be a cast and story. The wrestlers are the cast and take they take the violent bumps and bruises. The stories they tell is the entertainment side of professional wrestling. In the world of professional wrestling anything is legal. The more the violent the more the crowd erupts. Slam a man on the mat not much a reaction. Put that man threw a table louder reaction. Thru that man off the top of 20 foot cage the crowd goes wild. The more violent the fans love it even more.
Violence, profanity, gratuity, and sex sells in our civilization. Professional wrestling capitalized on all those in its heyday. Those larger than life figures were characters an audience watch and wanted to be. They were told to eat there vitamins and say their prayers. They saw these professionals jump of ladders onto tables, and they tried to emulate what they had sawn. This same industry had an audience yelling “suck it.” This is the industry with so much influence. This same audience has had moments when they tried wrestling maneuvers and killed their “opponent”, most of the time the opponents were family or friends. In this study do viewers who watch pro wrestling have differen...

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...football. It is one of the most violent sports out there. The reason people watch it is because they enjoy seeing the violence caused to another human being. It gives the viewers a feeling of being in the violence but without any of the side effects of being attacked.
Television isn’t always kind to violent programs. Professional wrestling isn’t the most scholarly program far from it. It won’t be winning awards from parents. A study “The Raw Nature of Televised Professional Wrestling: Is the Violence a Cause for Concern?” it gave more insight into the nature of televised professional wrestling. The study took a sample of programs of theirs. “It was a procedure to establish a very precise time code for use in unitizing the acts to be coded in this study. Given the uncommon frequency and speed with which violent acts begin and end in TV wrestling…” (Tamborini, 2005)

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