Wrestling

Professional Wrestling... One of the greatest forms of sports entertainment. It was invented in the early 1900's by a carney. It soon became a very popular event and many carnivals included professional wrestling in their show. Then came rise of wrestling organizations. A few major promotions are (or were) the WWWF (World Wide Wrestling Federation), which was changed to its current name WWF (World Wrestling Federation, the IWA (International Wrestling Association), the NWA (National Wrestling Association), the ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling), and of course, my personal favorite, the WCW (World Championship Wrestling).

Currently the two most popular wrestling promotions are the WWF and WCW. In the past few months, the WWF's Monday Night Raw/Warzone/Raw Is War (Mondays at 9:00 to 11:00PM EST.. on USA Network) has been dominating the WCW's Monday Nitro (Mondays at 8:00 to 11:00PM ET in ratings). I actually prefer the WCW because it has many of the wrestling legends that I saw when I started watching. But my preference is rapidly changing, because the WCW has been presenting extremely stupid stories and my favorite wrestlers haven't made appearances in months. But I shall remain loyal, for loyalty is necessary to keep your integrity.

Even though Professional Wrestling has become one of the most popular forms of entertainment, many people still say wrestling is "stupid." To all those people, I must say that I disagree. In a broad view Professional Wrestling is no different than day time soap operas which people have no problems or statements such as "It's so fake and stupid." Both are based on intricate story lines of love, hate, double crosses, deceit, ect.. (surrounding a group of people). The only difference is that professional wrestlers resolve their problems by fighting in a ring. Also, people don't expect the fighting to be real, the promoters even say that it's not. I feel that its extremely difficult to pull off the incredible moves of strength and agility which do not fully harm the people who get the moves done on. And don't tell me that some of those moves don't hurt. Just think about, there's no way possible for someone not to get hurt from some of those slams and airborne maneuvers