An Overview on World Wresting Entertainment (WWE) History
1925 was the year when WWE started. Roderick McMahon was promoting boxing in New York and met up with Joseph Mondt. Joseph is a professional wrestler, who would want to take wrestling unto the next level. He was willing to look for wrestlers to make it a real sport for WWE fans.
Capitol Wrestling Corporation was soon founded by Mc Mahon and Mondt, which eventually is the WWE. They became officially a member of the National Wrestling Alliance to make the business legal, in 1953. Vincent J. McMahon, inherited the vision of his dad, and took the helm of the company which makes it a whooping 70% ownership of all the NWA bookings. Later on, they started airing live wrestling matches.
Buddy Rogers in 1963 won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Rogers was challenged to defend his title outside Northeastern region, however McMahon and Mondt, didn’t want to risk his title. He was penalized to pay $25,000 or fight. Rogers decided to fight, but lost. World Wide Wrestling Federations was founded as a result.
Later on, Vincent Mc. Mahon is the head of the WWWF, by 1960 Mondt retires. Mc Mahon continues to be one of the board of directors of NWA, and they had several matches between WWWF and NWA, but there this time there are no real winners announced.
WWWF was later on became WWF or World Wrestling Federation in 1979. It was later solely owned by Vincent J. McMahon. His son Vincent K. McMahon opened Titan Sports and bought Capitol Sports and WWF by 1982. His dad wanted to focus on the northeastern part, but his son wants to expand the WWF.
Hulk Hogan and other famous wrestlers were later on hired by the younger McMahon to sell WWF in TV shows and VHS. It brought it lots of publicity, but it did put them in a precarious situation with NWA an some advertisers of the show. McMahon enticed lots of wrestlers from other groups as well.
Despite all McMahon’s initiative which creative a stir in the wrestling world, it opened a new avenue of entertainment known as the wrestling entertainment. Wrestling became an official sport accepted globally.
