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суббота, 26 декабря 2015 г.

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.

The WWE wrestling company has its history way back from 1950 when it was started by Vincent McMahon and Mondt, which is now handled by him and his wife Linda McMahon. WWE is said to be the inheritance of the McMahon family so even his son, Shane McMahon has joined the corporation. Majority of the number of shares of WWE is under the McMahons.

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.

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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