I'm a pro wrestling fan.
There I said it, all you cute girls can leave now. I'll wait
Ok there, that being said I'm a wrestling fan and have been for as long as I can remember. My earliest memories all involve WWF action and men like the Ultimate Warrior, Papa Shango, and the Bushwhackers to name a few.
So Imagine my surprise when I saw analogies in the film Outfoxed as I did with the current affair of professional wrestling.
The owner of the WWE Vince McMahon is a marketing genius. Wrestlers like Hulk Hogan and Steve Austin catched the public eye and held the WWE on top of the ratings for periods of time. The interesting thing is Vince mcMahon hates wrestling
He hates the idea of professional wrestling.
To him, it is sports entertainment. Sports Entertainment was a term coined by him as a way to appeal to a mass audience. With professional wrestling comes the usual connontations of redneck hillbillies yelling at two muscleheads rolling around in the ring
He created a way to spin professional wrestling into a whole different avenue. Sports Entertainment doesn't carry such a stigma and it seems to have worked in some strange way.
I mean...potential Oscar winner Mickey Rourke is scheduled for a match at Wrestlemania.
Who can argue with that
Friday, January 30, 2009
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