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Vince McMahon poisoned the pro wrestling business in the 80's and early 90's. When ECW finally got a prime time TV spot only to be sabotaged by Vince McMahon then canceled, pro wrestling was truly dead. WCW had switched to "sports entertainment" by then.

Vince McMahon has done everything he can to erase pro wrestling from the viewers' eyes and minds and memories. If you saw RAW last night you saw that grinning bastard talk about how "great" the WWE, and especially RAW, has been the last 20 years. What you did NOT hear come from his mouth was the word "wrestling" or any of it's derivatives.

He talked about romance, drama, entertainment, and all the bullshit he used to describe what the WWE is. He never, not even one time, used the word "wrestling" to describe the WWE or anything it does. Simply because the WWE is NOT pro wrestling.

It is a TV melodrama set in a pro wrestling environment, basically little more than a scripted "reality" show. Vince calls it "sports entertainment". And he has so warped the meaning of "pro wrestling" and the perception of today's fans that they don't know the difference between pro wrestling and what the WWE does.

Most of today's fans have never seen anything other than the WWE. TNA started out trying to revive pro wrestling 10 years ago but had to switch to "sports entertainment" to survive and grow. Their quality of wrestling is miles above anything the WWE does but they are still "sports entertainment".

ROH was the other company that tried to revive pro wrestling 10 years ago, but they never sold out to "sports entertainment" in order to appeal to the mainstream casual fans. ROH is pro wrestling the way it was always meant to be and is intended for pro wrestling fans, not mainstream casual "sports entertainment" fans. There are dozens of small pro wrestling companies all over the country.

Chances are you have at least one within reasonable driving distance of where you live (that goes for everybody no matter where in the U.S. you live). None of them are like the WWE, none of them are "sports entertainment". Pro wrestling was dead.

Vince McMahon killed it. Few of today's fans are old enough to have seen Vince kill pro wrestling. I was there.

I saw him poison the business, I saw him kill dozens of wrestling companies, I saw him rewrite history, I saw him kill pro wrestling and replace it with his fantasy land he calls the "WWE universe". I've watched him retrain the North American fans to sneer at pro wrestling and believe the WWE is the best, and even believe the WWE IS the "wrestling business". Pro wrestling isn't really dead at all.

Despite Vince McMahon killing it, the spirit lived on, and eventually it came back to life, first with TNA and ROH, then other pro wrestling companies springing up all over the country. Pro wrestling isn't dead. There are dozens of pro wrestling companies all over the country.

Despite Vince McMahon's machinations and the ubiquitous WWE every-damn-where, pro wrestling is alive and well, just obscured by that huge wet blanket called "sports entertainment". Check you local listings. Chances are good that you have at least one local pro wrestling company with a local (to your area) TV show.

That's pro wrestling. The WWE is "sports entertainment", not pro wrestling.

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