Saturday 26 December 2015

WWE- The Beginning

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.

WWE is considered to be one of the biggest organisations in the world of multimedia and entertainment. McMahons also share a major part of WWE economic interest. Having the highest number of shares of WWE, McMahons manage the company accordingly on their own.

The WWE has its headquarters at Connecticut. It has also opened other branches in various other cities all over the world such as London, Toronto, New York, etc. This makes it relevant that the WWE franchise does not only restrict itself to a part of the world. It has spread its wings to several countries across the world. It is considered to be a phenomenon more than a sport or an event. Individuals tend to fall for it once they watch it. Even you can get addicted to it if you watch it once and make sure you watch all the matches and events that happen in WWE.

WWE is a basically considered a professional wrestling entertainment. This simply means that it consists of role plays, dramas and theatrics and pure fighting. The wrestlers work out the Drama in the stage according to the story line but the fight is real, the fight is captured without retakes and cuts in between.

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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