Flair and The Four Horsemen terrorized the world of wrestling for most of the
80’s and the early 90’s, just like HHH and DX are doing to the WWF or Jeff
Jarrett and the Young Blood are doing in WCW. It seems that all of the most
notorious bad guys in the business ran in-groups such as The NWO, which
consisted of such big names as Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, and Scott Hall.
Degeneration X or D/X as they are called (HHH, Road Dawg, X-Pac. One thing that
I have noticed is that most bad guys always rolled in packs though. Most bad
guys always have a manager. This can play a huge psychological advantage. Reason
being managers such as JJ Dillion, Eric Bischoff, Miss Liz, and Paul Ellering
have made their teams very good due to their interference methods. In my
opinion, they are not needed. All a manger does is take up part of the wrestlers
salary, and they have been known to cause their wrestler to lose their titles
due to interference.
Wrestling by today’s standards is so much different from
what it was back in the day. Bad guys such as HHH and Stone Cold are cheered.
They are cheered for the heart they put into a match. Wrestlemania 13 when Stone
Cold the bad guy lost to The Heartbreak Kid the good guy. Yet Stone Cold was
cheered due to his heart and all of dedication. Dedication is such a major role
in wrestling, due to a wrestlers extremem training and diet. Wrestlers have a
very demanding regimen, which would include running and weight lifting on a
daily basis. Most wrestlers will train for months, even years before they step
into the squared circle. They must get the idea on how to throw a punch.
Wrestling as a sport has changed so much since I started watching when I was 6
years old. Wrestling has gone from being a sport that took two hours for a match
when it was called a sport. Wrestling has become a weekly show of breasts, chair
shots and numberous other crazy things . The popularity of wrestling has blown
up. So popular infact that ABC wanted to pay USA the company that shows WWF Raw
is War on Monday nights, to move it to Tuesday nights because that they where
drawing a huge part of the ratings of Monday Night Football. I hope this essay
has enlightened you on the world of pro wrestling. From being down and out in
the late 80’s to the late 90’s to being at the top of the sports world today,
wrestling has shown through all the adversity that everyone who made what it is
today had heart.
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