...Is Pro Wrestling fake or real? EN1320 Comp1 Research Paper IIT-Tech As long time avid fan of pro wrestling I always get ask is pro wrestling is fake? Sure pro wrestling is a male oriented soap opera, that storylines and matches do have predetermined outcome. Predetermined meaning the refs, wrestlers and bookers know who is going to win or lose a match before the actual match starts. Yes the hazards can be real inside the squared circle because if a wrestler receives or takes a “bump” the wrong way. It could be a career ending injury that wrestler might not even wrestle again. That being said every pro wrestler trains day in and day out to insure nobody gets hurt in the squared circle. For the untrained eye or people who don’t follow wrestling do not factor that in. Now the question that is always topic of debate about pro wrestling is it a sport or entertainment? Pro wrestling is part entertainment part sport because Greco Roman wrestling style it uses. The moves preformed like headlocks, suplexs and slams come from the Greco Roman wrestling style. Pro wrestling uses “Gimmicks” meaning the persona, usually artificially created; one has in order to draw fan interest. Here is where the entertainment comes into play for pro wrestling. Without the entertainment aspect of it, pro wrestling would boring, stale and not really fun to watch. Who wouldn’t want to watch a guy named “Dude Love” an overweight guy wearing tie dye, sunglasses and talking like a throwback 1960's hippie...
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...Is Pro Wrestling fake or real? (07/31/2015) EN1320 Comp1 Research Paper IIT-Tech As long time avid fan of pro wrestling I always get ask is pro wrestling is fake? Sure pro wrestling is a male oriented soap opera, that storylines and matches do have predetermined outcome. Predetermined meaning the refs, wrestlers and bookers know who is going to win or lose a match before the actual match starts. Yes the hazards can be real inside the squared circle because if a wrestler receives or takes a “bump” the wrong way. It could be a career ending injury that wrestler might not even wrestle again. That being said every pro wrestler trains day in and day out to insure nobody gets hurt in the squared circle. For the untrained eye or people who don’t follow wrestling do not factor that in. Now the question that is always topic of debate about pro wrestling is it a sport or entertainment? Pro wrestling is part entertainment part sport because Greco Roman wrestling style it uses. The moves preformed like headlocks, suplexs and slams come from the Greco Roman wrestling style. Pro wrestling uses “Gimmicks” meaning the persona, usually artificially created; one has in order to draw fan interest. Here is where the entertainment comes into play for pro wrestling. Without the entertainment aspect of it, pro wrestling would boring, stale and not really fun to watch. Who wouldn’t want to watch a guy named “Dude Love” an overweight guy wearing tie dye, sunglasses and talking like a throwback...
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...to the dictionary, “Wrestling is a sport in which two opponents struggle hand to hand in order to pin or press each other shoulders’ to the mat or ground, with style, rules, and regulation.” This is why amatuer wrestling is more of a real sport than Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). This excerpt from The World of Wrestling by Roland Barthes contrast the different nature of the two. “Of course, there exists a false wrestling, in which the participants unnecessarily go to great lengths to make a show of a fair fight;this is of no interest. True wrestling, wrongly called amateur wrestling, is performed in second rate halls, where the public spontaneously attunes itself to the spectacular nature of the contest.” For those who don’t know the difference between amatur wrestling and WWE; let me break it down for you. WWE stands for World of Wrestling Entertainment and was created about 30 years ago. It mostly consists of people playing actor roles. They have dramas before matches, and even the wrestling moves are faked. While amatuer wrestling was a sport developed in ancient Greece and was in the first olympics. There’s three types of wrestling,...
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...To: Prof. Raymond D Godeke From: Emily Ung Re: Case Study Analysis Date: 03/04/2014 World Wrestling Entertainment Issue: World Wrestling Entertainment is lacking the diversity in its target market and encountering with many competitors such as new reality shows and the other professional sports organizations. Analysis: World Wrestling Entertainment is an entertainment company that deals primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources coming from film, music, product licensing and direct product sales. WWE merchandises are mainly male base for example video games, sport magazines, books, live wrestling events, TV broadcasting; therefore the majority of their fans are males between ages of 12 to 34. Moreover, WWE shows were mostly involving in its sex and violence during the past years, it was considered not appropriate for family friendly market. This leads to limit the variety of their customers such as children, parents, and females. Furthermore, WWE is also facing many competitors. If WWE was just only a wrestling company, their competitors would be the likes of TNA (Total Nonstop Action Wrestling) or some other professional fighting organization. But because of the fact that it’s in the entertainment business, their competitors come in all sorts such as new reality shows like Fear Factor, Survivor, and many major Hollywood movie studios like 20th Century Fox, Columbia pictures, or Warner Bros studio on producing films. Alternatives: In order to broaden...
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...family, neighbors, etc. etc.). Previously, if you wanted to research someone’s arrest records, you might have had to actually go in to a county court office—in the appropriate county—and formally request information on an individual. This process may have taken days or weeks, or the information might not have been available at all. With websites like Instant Checkmate, however, a background check takes just a few clicks of the mouse, and no more than a minute or two. While preparing this article I decided to run a quick search on myself to give the service a real-world test. To my dismay, the search revealed several items I’d long forgotten—one of them being for the possession of a fake ID I was (embarrassingly) issued back in college when I was just 18 years old. "possession of a fake ID I was (embarrassingly) issued back in college when I was just 18 years old" After searching myself and finding those records, my curiosity was piqued, and I began...
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...Case Study #2 World Wrestling Entertainment Under the leadership of CEO, Vince McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has become one of the most popular entertainment brands in the world. WWE strives to keep its exposure to the 35 million fans and attract new viewers by using various customer facing platforms from live wrestling matches to mobile apps. McMahon clearly understands what the fans want and has been innovating and improving ways to satisfy their needs in the entertainment industry. McMahon’s entrepreneurial spirit and continual efforts to stay competitive have allowed WWE to become successful. Although there are a few direct competitors in the wrestling entertainment business, WWE has to watch out an emerging competitor in the combat sport such as Ultimate Fighter Championship (UFC). After 12 years of working at his father’s company, McMahon acquired the firm from his father in 1982 and named it World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Aggressive and ambitious man he was, he knew that he could transform the business into a global brand if the firm had implemented different strategies. Since the acquisition, McMahon has been continually innovating and adapting various customer facing platforms to maintain its competitive advantage. In order to grow the business from regional to national, McMahon started broadcasting his matches across the country to reach out to new audiences. As a result, he eliminated many of the rivals, and people gradually began to have more...
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...Wrestlers and fans have also created terms to describe the more diehard fans. The main three terms are: marks, smarts, and smarks. Marks are fans who believe that every aspect of professional wrestling is real. Nothing is ever faked or predetermined and when the wrestlers feud with each other they really do hate each other and are not acting. Sometimes the term mark is also used to describe fans who may like a particular wrestler or promotion so much it is considered excessive. A smart is an individual who possesses inside information on the wrestling business and maybe even a certain promotion. Smarts are usually the individuals who run the dirt sheets online, provide information about backstage happenings, and gossip about the wrestlers and...
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...I can feel the cold wind on my face. It’s Saturday night, and I’m riding my bike with my best friend to an unknown neighbourhood. I can’t wait to arrive and start my field study. Even though it’s taking place in a church’s basement, the site I’m going to study has nothing to do with spirituality and religious worship. It’s an amateur wrestling tournament. The whole event is taking place in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, known for a long time to be one of Montreal’s poorest neighbourhood. I’m really exited about the whole thing. First of all, I don’t know Hochelaga-Maisonneuve at all. If it weren’t for my friend, I’d be lost. Second, my knowledge about wrestling is limited to zero. This place is taking me completely out of my comfort zone and it’s...
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...The article I’m writing about is “The Rise of Beefcake Yoga” by Alex French, which explores the progressively popular DDP Yoga program, which the name is derived from the former professional wrestler Diamond Dallas Page. I chose this article because it was something far different than any subject that I would have normally pick. I found it both interesting and unique as a human story and from a business perspective I could see its positive potential. Before reading the article I was only vaguely familiar with wrestling and the entertainment side of it through my step-dad and brother. French described in the article that wrestling is the world’s most widespread fake-sport association (French). I had no idea that so many former professional wrestlers had such broken down bodies and tended to die at such a young age. In a 2003 survey of news reports showed that between 1983 and 2009, 64 wresters died of mostly heart failure and a medical examiner found that 40 years old and younger in this industry has seven times greater risk of dying. (French) The DDP Yoga program has been a godsend to many former injured wrestlers by...
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...did together the most. It seemed like it was the one thing we were best at and proud of. My Dad used to own a bar. I began working at my Dad’s bar when I was still in school. I would walk to the bar after football practice work at the bar. On weekends I would work one night in the back. My brother John worked there too and my brother Brian got sent away. One time we were drinking at the bar and some of the guys were arm wrestling. I pretended I was beating Stan the bouncer and my Dad got mad at me for it. My Dad, thought that I was really dissing Stan. My Dad then went to the bottle bin, took out two empty beer bottles and smashed the bottoms off of them. He then told me to stand opposite him. We’ll hold these bottles out here (about a foot away from our respective faces), and at the count of ‘three’, we’ll grind this broken glass into each other’s faces. Just then, Stan got between us and grabbed my Dad’s “bottle” hand. He broke us up and Dad gave Stan a fake smile. He did not look at me and went to sit down. My Dad was not always like this, especially now that he does not drink anymore. I guess experiences like this let me know at an early age that my Dad could not really be counted on. This made me more independent. This was what was considered a typical experience for a seventh grade boy in my...
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...For example, when my little brother punches or fights me or any of my family family members, we are blamed. He will fake an injury until my mom yells at us. After she starts yelling at us, he stands behind her and laughs or he just walks away. He is the biggest baby in the family. One time I got in trouble for not shutting the door when we all left, and I was not the last one out of the house. My brother ran back in the house to grab something before we left and he claims that I went back in with him, but I never did. My mom didn't care if I was the last one out or not, she said I still should have made sure the door was shut. I get blamed for things I don't do and it is not fair. I can remember lots of times I felt like I was not treated fair. First, it was not fair I didn't get to go with my brother. Then when my parents didn't believe me because of my...
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...A Letter in Response To “Calling Bruce Jenner a Woman is an Insult to Women” Dear Mr. Walsh, I have written this letter to alter your skewed understanding by expressing my strong disdain towards your biased article about Caitlyn Jenner. What brings most disgrace is that while your article is engaging and packed with strong opinions, you have remarked starkly about Caitlyn Jenner and you should realize how mistaken you were about your views of her. Firstly, I would like to point out the fact that you have repeatedly called her Bruce and not Caitlyn. Every individual is entitled to his opinion. However, an opinion that strips an individual of her identity is not just intolerant, but also unacceptable. By using terms like ‘imbecile’, ‘fake’,...
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...Garner was pronounced dead at the hospital. Officer Daniel Pantaleo was not indicted and of course this caused major protest in Staten Island, but the city of New York paid Garner’s family $5.9 million on July 13, 2016 on an out-of-court settlement. Another incident involving two Cleveland police officers and 12-year-old Tamir Rice. On November 22, 2014 there were reports of a black male at the park pointing a gun a people in the city park. During parts of the call the person was saying that the gun could be fake, but on the original it was not stated, but at the end of the call the person stated the male is probably a juvenile. 26-year-old Timothy Loehmann and 46-year-old Frank Garmback responded to the call and when they arrived Tamir Rice pulled out the gun then Leohmann fired two shots from the car, one hitting Rice in his chest. After Rice got hit Garmback and Loehmann drove off, but no first aid was given to Rice and he died instantly. Later on the gun was found to be a fake replica and a surveillance video was released on November 26, four days later after the incident. Both officers were place on administrative left and were not indicted. Based on one of the previous job Timothy Loehman had he was declared unfit and emotionally unstable to be a police, but Cleveland police department did not find anything about his poor performance review from his previous job. Officer Loehmann acted hastily and didn’t even try to negotiate with Tamir to put down his weapon. Then you have 18-year-old...
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...series of cases were stupendously similar to each other. All the decedents were surgeons from many hospitals in this town. And all the surgeons were killed through some sharp tools like scalpels, and their corpses were abandoned in the wild field by the murderer. These incidents caused a impact on all the surgeons in this town, and they felt frightened. They did not know if these nightmares would fall upon their heads. The only one point that confused Richard was that all the crime scenes were left in a undisturbed wild field. He wondered if the surgeons who had been killed had appeared obediently followed the murderer to the wild field without a struggle. The more surprising thing was that policemen could not find any trace of wrestling in the crime scenes. Why surgeons did not try any possible way to resist with the murderer? Were they are bewitched by the murderer? Multitudinous questions plagued Richard. When it came to the surgeons, Richard did not have good feeling for them. One year ago, on a cold night, Richard’s wife Vivien suddenly felt great pain that from her stomach. At that time, Richard was chasing several criminals in the wild field. She had to come alone to the hospital when she was suffering. Nobody knew where to find the surgeon who was supposed to be on the duty. The fact was that the surgeon was...
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...Stop Trying to Make Me Make Friends Everybody –everybody! Knows what I am talking about. Those moments when you are driving along, maybe sitting at your computer, when all of a sudden, unbidden and unwelcome, comes the memory from your past. It is usually embarrassing, cringe worthy, and inconsequential to every other person on the planet but you. It was years ago and it still haunts you; more so since it happened in a social setting ( hey, who obsesses over the time they farted all alone in their own house at 2 o’clock in the morning.) Sometimes I feel like I have more than most. And most of them were the result of the age old struggle of trying to “fit in” Of course in my childhood and teen years I wanted to please, most children do. All through my twenties I wrestled with question of where I belonged and what made me happy. I was often TOLD what would make me happy and when it didn’t I believed it was a failing on my part. I suppressed and ignore my instincts. I had zero confidence that I could make good choices and second and third guessed myself in every way. I lacked a certain type of social skills. The “acceptable” social groups felt I was dull, uninteresting, refused to conform and regularly stuck my foot in my mouth. I felt they were dull, shallow, incredibly insular and had zero imagination. (but I could connect with them if I just tried harder). The truth was they were not bad people; they just weren’t my people. Attempting to fit together on any level deeper...
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