Pro Wrestling
has been on T.V. since the very beginning of Television with weekly shows and then moving to a Saturday morning show in 1974, when Vince McMahon bought the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from his father. In 1974, the WWF only had about five hundred thousand viewers where today it has over thirty five million viewers weekly tuning into the Monday Night Raw show. How did Vince make famous today? The reason for the rise to the top is that it has always pushed things to the limit with the sex, the violence and the storylines.
For over twenty years ABC Monday night football had no rival. It was the only thing for men to watch on Monday nights that wasn’t like Melrose Place, Ally ...
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become the highest rated television show ever on Monday night. It was hard to believe that that many people were watching a fake sport, but than again, its hard to argue with 35 million viewers tuning in each week to watch. These fans come from all different walks of life.
No longer are the fans coming just form trailer parks or are little kids. They now come form all social classes, ethnic backgrounds and age groups. In the last year the percentage of people who tune in that have gone to college for four years or more has risen by 154 percent and in households which make 50,000 dollars or more the percent as risen by 111 percent. This has Fortune 500 companies wanting to be a part of this with sponsors like the U.S. Army, CoCa-Cola, Nintendo, Sony, AT&T, Honda, and Parker Brothers just to name a few. Each one of these and many more companies pay 75,000 dollars a pay-per view just to be a sponsor of that event. The WWF’s last pay- per view brought in over 30 million dollars ...
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blood match. Another thing they do to keep the fans entertained is that they change the roles of the superstars, and what they say and do. Some of the things they come up with to say are brilliant, and always are very catchy. If you go in to any classroom in America from about fifth grade to a college class, you could ask the students to name any wrestler and one of the wrestlers sayings and at least one person could respond and some could even be able to go further.
The women wrestlers are one of the main attractions to the WWF. With superstars like Luna, Sable, China, PMS, Debra and Tori, they are helping bring fans to the WWF and giving the male fans something to look at. Whoever ...
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