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Thứ Bảy, 26 tháng 12, 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.

The NWA got an undisputed World Heavy Weight championship that went to several other wrestling companies in the alliance. The championship was defended around the world. Now the NWA only chose good fighters as champions, so to give their worked sport credibility. They have made a strong business in the Middle West which was also the core of the alliance. The wrestlers gained interest in the Capitol territory.

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.

The major shares of the company are possessed by the McMahon family, in which Vince McMcahon is the chairman. Today's WWE came into existence in the year 1980. It was then known as the Titan Sports. It later incorporated the holding company of the World Wrestling Federation in 1982. The name of the company had to undergo several changes like World Wrestling Federation in 1998, then World Wrestling Federation in 1999 and then World Wrestling Entertainment in 2002. WWE is official name for the company and all its products are branded under this name, though the legal name of the company has not been changed.

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.

After few years it was the company's name was again changed to World wrestling federation or the WWF and it came completely under the control of Vincent J McMahon. The following year his son brought in the Titan Sports and along with it he also bought Capitol Sports and its assets which included WWF too. Vincent j McMahon wanted to keep focusing the WWF towards the north-eastern region, his son wanted to do something else and he started expanding WWF.

The WWE Corporation also launched their online streaming network where all the matches were documented and kept for viewers to watch them; it also allowed live streaming for matches held. They were able to get a lot of subscribers from this and it was the largest ever subscription. WWE uses several terms for defining there products such as the fans are termed as WWE Universe, the male wrestlers are termed as the WWE superstars and the female Wrestlers are known as the WWE Divas.




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