In 1985, pro wrestling was main streamed, promotors own different territories, in the north it was Vince Mcmahon, and in the south it was Jim Crockett, and the rest was lower class wrestling promotions. The world Wrestling Federation was once owned by Vince mcmahon senior in the early 50's to late 70's, but the sudden death by vince senior changed all that when vince mcmahon junior inherited the company and it's fortune. Vince junior had Big shoes to fill, and he did so by make his father company into a global empire. Today we take a look back on how vince junior took the WWF from main stream territories to a world wide Phenomenon...
In the early 80's the WWF had a large amount of talent in their stable, such talent like, Bob Backlund, the Iron Sheak, Nikoli Volkoff, The Wild Somoans, Andre the Giant, Big John Studd, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Cowboy Bob Ortan, The magnificent Muraco, Hercules hernandez, Randy the macho-man savage, Ricky steamboat, Jake the Snake Roberts, The Honky Tonk Man, The killer Bees, The Hart Foundation, The Bristish Bulldogs, Hacksaw jim Duggan, The Million Dollar man Ted Dibiase, George The Animal Steele, Strike Force, The Islanders, The Ultimate Warrior, Dino Bravo, Ravishing Rick Rude, King kong Bundy, The Natural Butch Reed, The One-Man Gang, The Big Bossman, Dusty Rhodes, Terry Taylor, Greg The Hammer Valentine, Rugged Ronnie Garvin, The Junkyard Dog, and Hulk Hogan.
Vince Mcmahon also Created The Events to showcase this great talent like, Wrestlemania, Survivor Series, Summerslam, The Royal Rumble, and other small Time house events. Over the 80's The WWf was more a tradition wrestling company for the adverage wrestling fan from ages 15 to 30 years of age, and maybe older fans also. The WWF in the 80's was a great Era in Pro Wrestling. But as the years went by so has the talent, and the fans.... The WWF started to change also it went from " What the World Was Watching" to "The Next Gerneration" to The adittude Era. Wrestling Talent started to change drasticly, from Hulk Hogan & Hulkamania to Bret hart to Big Daddy cool to HBK to Stone cold to The Most Electrifing to Olympic to The Dead to and finally Straight To Hell Era. Yes The WWF had alot of troubles over the years, but that didn't stop there... The problems only persisted when steriods started to shape The WWF as Big Monster look wrestlers like the Ultimate warrior and hulk Hogan started to show the World That Big was better, but the only problem was Their Wrestling Skills were One Dimensional, and wrestlers with true wrestling talent took a back seat to wrestlers like Hulk Hogan over the years. Vince mcmahon was sued so many time he even has a Dictionary to prove it, lol that's amazing, but he also had to have a dictionary of Abituaries of former wrestlers who died in a young age.
The wrestling business With the WWF continued to change as The most famous logo which has embodied The World Wrestling Federation for so many years took a different appearence form WWF to WWE(World Wrestling Entertainment), Vince Mcmahon lost the rights to this logo to another company which had the WWF logo for many years The World Wild Life Ferderation in the late 1998.
The down fall of the WWE, started when their talent started to dissapear from this earth, as a result The WWE Roster had early deaths. It all started when monday night Raw had it second show on the USA Network, Word got around That Andre the Giant had died of an apparent Heart attack while attending his father's funeral in france, alot of fans were shocked of the news and sad, the WWF gave a ten bell salute to The 8th wonder of the world. A few Years Later the WWF would lose another piece of their talent roster, Brian Pillman Died of Heart Disease, which he been Battling all of his life, A Couple of months later Owen Hart's Death Came Accidently, when he fell 50 feet from the Arena ceiling, another sad day in the WWF. But their was a Brief period when the death toll stopped. But the dark cloud which plagued the WWF appeared once more as one of the most popular superstar in pro wrestling fadded away, Eddie Guerrero died Of Heart Failer resulted in drug abuse that eddie sustained in his years in WCW. But The one death that spilled the End of the WWE waas when Chris benoit did the Most Shameful thing that any Human Being has ever done, He Killed his own family as a result of brain damage and a high amount of steriod Substances, the end result was the WWE decline in superstar power & storyline scripts. But the WWE has had success in marketing for Young children which kept them on top of the wrestling world.
but the question is, Has The WWE Run out of time... Or Is this just a smoke Screen of things to come!!!
WELL HAS A TRU FAN I HOPE THEY FIND THERE WAY BACK,BUT TIME WILL TELL. GREAT STUFF AS ALWAYS
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