All Star Pro Wrestling Women! Vintage Women's Professional Wrestling, 1970, 1980, 1990
Steel Kittens Presents Ladies Vintage Wrestling, an all-star line up of some of the most exciting Women's Professional Wrestling matches ever caught on tape!
https://steelkittens.com/wrestling-videos/vintage-classic-pro-wrestling/vintage-70-s-80-s-90-s
The text of the news report, which was featured in the documentary "Bigger, Stronger, Faster":
>The Iron Sheik had been arrested recently along with wrestler Hacksaw Jim Duggan while driving along the Garden State Parkway. The Iron Sheik was charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana. What has interested most wrestling fans in this case is that the Iron Sheik and Hacksaw are known to be adversaries. So why were they traveling together?
>The World Wrestling Federation coined the term "sports entertainment" during the 1980s as a description for their style of professional wrestling, although precursors date back to February 1935, when Toronto Star sports editor Lou Marsh described professional wrestling as "sportive entertainment". In 1989 WWF used the phrase in a case it made to the New Jersey Senate for classifying professional wrestling as "sports entertainment" and thus not subject to regulation like a directly competitive sport.
>Some sports entertainment events represent variants of actual sports, such as exhibition basketball with the Harlem Globetrotters association, or American football with the Legends Football League. Others modify sport for entertainment purposes: many types of professional wrestling (which derived from traditional wrestling), and more recently many of the various mascot races held at numerous Major League Baseball games in-between innings.
>Some forms of sports entertainment involve taking competitive games usually considered minor, such as dodgeball, poker, or rock-paper-scissors, and televising them with trumped-up theatrics, involving (for example) celebrity competitors or elaborate audiovisual packages.
Never occurred to me before that there might be a Wikipedia article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_entertainment
I came across this earlier:
> all the kids that loved the attitude era are now adults and ready to admit that they're marks again.
- /u/magnetosgiantcock
As soon as I read that, I paused for a few seconds, thought it over and realized that he is correct. Over the past 8 months or so my friends and I, who were all huge fans up until 04/05 have gotten back into wrestling. Now I spend a majority of the time I am on Reddit, on this subreddit. I love being back into it, especially now. Our resurgence began when we started doing our best Hogan impressions wasted off our asses. That led to YouTube videos, which led to catching up on storylines, which led to SummerSlam '13. After that, we were all hooked once again. This has to be true for others. Kids from the Attitude and Ruthless Aggression Eras are now somewhere in the 20s or even early 30s and we remember the thrill it gave us as kids. Watching the product now makes me feel like a kid. The WWE Network ^Brother makes me feel like a kid. Remembering how great Monday Nights were because I was allowed to stay up until 11:05- it is a great feeling. I used to have a big bear I would wrestle with and I would frogsplash that fucker from my kitchen counter. I want to frogsplash his ass right now. As /u/magnetosgiantcock said, we are ready to admit we are marks again. I am a mark again, deal with it.
I see these post here saying we are heading into a new boom; how the period we are in right now is similar to the period right before the Attitude Era took off. I have to say, you guys are right. The new era is here and the boom is coming. I am excited for the future- for Rollins, Reigns, Ambrose, Bryan, Neville, Bo, Bray, the list goes on. The sky is the limit right now. I believe that the threshold was passed at WMXXX- the Streak ended, Daniel Bryan won, and every current champion is an NXT alumni. Not only was the threshold passed, but it was fucking annihilated.
These four guys are involved in all of the best stories in North American wrestling and a lot of it is great because of their work.
Please, don’t take that the wrong way. Obviously Reigns and Omega are the best guys in the [North American side of the] business because they’re heels that you love off TV, hate in character, and although you think their opponent can never realistically beat them, their selling keeps you thinking “well, shit, maybe they actually might give Cesaro/Orange Cassidy the title after all!” I digress.
My point is that these managers are extremely vital, at least when it comes to keeping my viewership. They are so great at keeping a fan interested in a story, and helping blur any “faux pas” the writing may have in it with their performances. They draw the heat, they make it clear as to why you should not be cheering for their “clients,” and they are all masters of the microphone. Granted you could compare them and say who is better than who and who is more important, or whatever, but I don’t think that should be the discussion. The discussion to me is, where would we be today without these four men?
Thanks for reading my thoughts I wrote to kill time in between my work shifts. Shout out to everyone who knows how important great managers are in wrestling.
Booker of the Year, not one, but TWO years in a row.
It all makes sense now fellow goofs. Warner moving AEW to TBS means we are their target audience due to all the jerk and comedy content we get from it.
Thank you Tony Khan🙏
