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The Captivating World of Pro-Wrestling
The World of Professional Wrestling
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To be real with you guys, I’m a huge wrestling fan.
No, I’m not that kid from school who doesn’t know that professional wrestling is scripted.
Well in turn, the only reason I love it so much is because I know it is scripted.
Things like the promos are ‘scripted’, story lines are ‘written’, the show is ‘planned’ and all the moves are ‘rehearsed’ between wrestlers before they come to the ring to actually ‘wrestle’.
It is similar to watching a movie, you know the actors are acting and everything is planned but you always want to see how it ends.
While some of you might shrug off saying that you watch WWE TV !?
To them, I would say yes sometimes, but I’m more of an AEW, NJPW, Lucha Underground, Ring Of Honour (ROH) kind of guy.
what’s the difference you ask, let us begin!
Case for Wrestling
Do you know that former US President, Donald Trump is in the WWE Hall of Fame?
OR
Hollywood actor, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson was an active WWE wrestler before his acting career took off and has a family lineage of Sports entertainers.
OR
Did you ever read in class that Abraham Lincoln was a professional wrestler in his youth?
Do you even know that WWE has 100+ million subscribers on YouTube and is the only 3rd channel from The United States to be in the Top 10 most subscribed channels in the world?
Last year, WWE merged with the UFC to form the TKO Group Holdings with a total market valuation of over $21.4 billion at that time!
AEW ALL IN: London 2023 sold 81,035 tickets at Wembley Stadium, the largest paid crowd in wrestling history, and had an actual turnstile attendance of 72,265 for a single show.
The market for wrestling is crazy and I can go on & on about how great the business is from Television rights, TV shows, Merchandise, Pay-Per-Views (PPVs), Live Events, Live Appearances, Brand deals, etc.