WWE's business focuses on professional wrestling, a simulated sport. It is currently the largest professional wrestling business in the world. The business previously existed as the Capitol Wrestling Corporation (CWC), which promoted under the banner of the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF), then the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and later World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Since then the business has grown into three brands, RAW, Smack Down, and ECW. The McMahons keep this wrestling business in their family for fifty years, with the help of a few friends, which made this business what it is today.
Roderick James “Jess” McMahon was a boxing promoter. In 1926, while working with Tex Rickard, who built Madison Square Garden, they started promoting boxing. Wikipedia states that, during that same time Joseph Raymond “Toots” Mondt created a new style of wrestling called “Slam Bang Western Style Wrestling” to make the sport more appealing to spectators.
Together, Roderick McMahon and Raymond Mondt where a successful combination, they created the Capitol Wrestling Corporation (CWC). The CWC joined the National Wrestling Association (NWA) in 1953. WWE.com explains that also in that year, Ray Fabiani, one of Mondt’s associates, brought in Vincent J. McMahon to replace his father Jess in the business. Mondt taught McMahon about booking and how to work in the wrestling business (WWE.com).
Kayfabememovies.com states that in 1963, Mondt and McMahon left the NWA, to create the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) (Kayfabememovies.com). The WWWF rejoined the NWA in 1973, ran under the World Wide Wrestling Federation banner until 1978, when the name was shortened to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Vincent J. McMahon so...
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... developing cardiac issues. The drug testing is handled by Aegis Sciences Corporation (WWE.com). The cardiac evaluations are handled by New York Cardiology Associates P.C. WWE openly suspended 11 performers immediately following release of their names in conjunction with anabolic steroid purchases.
The WWE is a publicly traded, privately controlled integrated media and sports entertainment company dealing primarily in the professional wrestling industry. Vince McMahon is the majority owner and Chairman of the company and his wife Linda McMahon holds the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Together with their children, Executive Vice President of Global Media Shane McMahon and Executive Vice President of Talent and Creative Writing Stephanie McMahon-Lévesque, the McMahon family holds approximately 70% of WWE’s economic interests and rules the wrestling world.
Vince McMahon’s WWF is a multi-million dollar corporation and has been wildly successful in capturing the sports entertainment market. “Monday Night Raw,” the weekly soap opera on TNN, is one of the three most watched cable shows each week. In addition, the WWF has weekly wrestling shows on UPN and MTV. Personally, I am caught up in the phenomenon. I set aside my Monday evenings to watch Monday Night Football and professional wrestling. I enjoy attempting to figure out the storylines before they unfold and attempt to guess the action that may happen in the next segment.
Another reason the XFL will survive and prosper is its business savvy. Vice McMahon, who established himself as the owner and founder of the WWF, has proved to be a marketing genius. In a 50-50 partnership with NBC, who pumped in 50 million dollars and marketing muscle, Vince is targeting 13-24 year old males for his new football league.This target audience of 13-24 year old males just happens to be the same target audience of his WWF, which should make cross promotions a breeze (Efferon 31).
I have many things that I love in this life, one of those things is wrestling. I have been wrestling for seven years and I have developed quite the passion and love for it. Wrestling has always been an interesting sport for me. Growing up in Oregon I watched my uncles wrestle in high school. I watched both of them win their state tournament in their respective weight classes, this is one of my fondest memories of my childhood. One of them went on to wrestle division one, I thought this was the coolest thing in the world. I looked up to my uncles and wanted to be just like them. I did not always wrestle though. The process of pursing my dream as of becoming a wrestler started of with basketball, then went to a rocky start, then being on Worland High School wrestling team.
that, Wyatt moved to Dodge City, Kansas where he served as a police man three separate
Since at least the 1980’s performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) have been a major challenge in the world of Major League Baseball, and past trends indicate they will continue to pose an ongoing problem. A number of the most prominent and accomplished professional baseball players, such as Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Jason Giambi, Roger Clemens, are also the most famous examples of baseball players who have broken longstanding records, attracted countless numbers of fans, and allegedly have taken performance-enhancing drugs. Athletes who have been caught using steroids in order to increase and better their performance rates have been suspended, fined and traded from the teams on which they once played. Despite the punitive actions taken against them by the League and lawmakers, players continue to use performance-enhancing drugs and likely will continue to do so, because the associated athletic effects will draw more fans and bring more money to the individual player and franchise.
Maryln Bowlin of Taiban, New Mexico founded the Billy the Kid Outlaw Gang shortly thereafter for the purpose of protecting the true, and well researched, history of William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid.
The crowd roars with a deafening volume that could awaken the dead from their eternal slumber. He explodes through the doors, the crowd's cheers raise to an even higher decibel, as he sprits up to the ring it appears the only thing running through his veins is pure adrenaline, his muscles bulge as he slides into the ring. He rises to he feet, the crowd is still ecstatic, as he lifts his extended middle finger into the air as he screams, "Give me a HELL YEAH!", and the crowd, including people from all walks of life, answers back, "HELL YEAH!" He once held the Heavy Weight Champion belt of the World Wrestling Federation, making him number one, and he believes, and gets his fans to believe, he is still number one. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin is a prime candidate for the nomination of a modern day Anglo-Saxon hero. "Stone Cold's" immense physical strength, his courage, and his loyalty would have any Anglo-Saxon by his side.
In a new study, middle-aged weight lifters who took steroids for a decade showed evidence of a heart pumping function that was not seen in weight lifters who did not take steroids. “The finding suggests that many years of anabolic steroid use weakens the heart more than has been previously recognized”, says cardiologist and study researcher Aaron L. Baggish, MD, of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
after school is let out for the summer. The rules of Free style wrestling are
Associated Press "Steroid, Other Drugs Found in Bodies of Wrestler, Wife, Son," ESPN.com, July 17, 2007
Wrestling is more than just a sport; it is a way of life. And for those who enjoy its opportunities, it is something that takes the mind off of all of life’s troubling times, and puts one man against another to get their hand raised. Competition makes everything evolve, and there is no other sport that epitomizes what competition truly is. Wrestling spans the entire globe, and although it incorporates several different styles and many National and World events, remains overlooked by most.
Lucha Libre in Spanish means, "free fight." And in the wrestling world it is just that, a "free fight." The idea of high-flying was first realized in Mexico and Japan and became a very hot commodity in the mid-90's.
Wrestling is a great sport to better yourself and earn a bunch of awards and titles to look back on later on in life. It 's something i will never forget and cherish always. But the memories of losing all the weight and making myself miserable for all those seasons is something i will not miss. People around me were only worried about the medals i had gotten and not about my personal being, that 's where wrestling goes wrong. That 's what needs to change in the future for not only wrestlers but the people around them as well.
Do you ever watch wrestling? Anything like WWE? TNA? Or NXT? Have you heard of the attitude era during a match or the show and have no idea what it is or who started it? Well, if you heard of the phrase the attitude era then you must have heard of the legendary Stone Cold Steve Austin. Stone Cold, for short, has been in the wrestling industry since the 1990’s. Back in the 1990’s, the wrestling industry was called WWF which stands for world wrestling federation. During the attitude era, Stone Cold’s popularity rose with the WWF universe. From T-shirts to sweatpants with his name on them, Stone Cold Steve Austin officially became the founder of the attitude era.
Although most IFs instituted drug testing in the 1970’s, the use of anabolic steroids had already become widespread and it was just too hard to detect them yet. Finally in 1974 a reliable method for the testing of performance enhancing drugs was found and people were starting to get caught. One of those who were caught w...