Olympic History

If the Olympic Games are a history of mankind, wrestling is the prologue. When the ancient Games of the Olympiad were born, wrestling already was an ancient game. Widely recognised as the world's oldest competitive sport, wrestling appeared in a series of Egyptian wall paintings as many as 5000 years ago. When the Games began in 776 BC, more than two millenniums later, it included wrestling, and, in the years that followed, wrestling featured as the main event.

In 1904, the Olympic Games added the second wrestling event and called it "freestyle". Now, wrestlers could use their legs for pushing, lifting and tripping, and they could hold opponents above or below the waist.

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VIP Lounge with MVP & Mark Henry opens the show, MVP attempts to introduce our guest host this evening, but is cut off by the Unified Tag Team Champions, Chris Jericho & Big Show! Jericho isn't pleased with MVP's weak introduction and the two one-up each other to give the proper greeting to Reverend Al Sharpton! Have I mentioned how utterly bizarre this is? Sharpton is unsurprisingly booed, but I have to hang my head in shame a bit when the fans continued to boo the guy for talking about putting aside politics to achieve the goal of education reform. Wrestling fans booing education? Way to keep that stereotype alive, guys. But to be honest, it is weird that of all people to team up for this task, it's Al Sharpton and Newt Gingrich. Liberals hate Gingrich, conservatives hate Sharpton, but let's be honest, regardless of your political affiliation, does anyone actually like either one of those guys? Anyhoo, back on the topic of wrestling, Sharpton gives the fans what they want and makes a Tag Title match between JeriShow and MVP/Mark Henry... right now!

The National Wrestling Coaches

The National Wrestling Coaches Convention last month had a discernable theme of helping coaches run their program as if they were the CEO. The idea is that they don't have to do everything- they just have to oversee everything. This means different things depending on whether you're a D1 coach in the Big Ten vs. a D3 coach vs a high school coach. You may have paid assistants or you may be a volunteer head coach. Regardless, if you find ways to leverage the time and resources of those around you then you'll be able to get more done. More coaching, more fundraising, more promoting.... more everything.

Premiere of the World Wrestling

The premiere of the World Wrestling Federation area on AOL will be dedicated to the August 27th pay-per-view, WWF "SUMMERSLAM." The WWF "SUMMERSLAM" area will be featured as AOL and the WWF continue to create the World Wrestling Federation's entire area. The "SUMMERSLAM" area will consist of information on the "SUMMERSLAM" card, WWF Superstars and inside information on WWF "SUMMERSLAM" story-line. Also, on Sunday, August 27th, the World Wrestling Federation invites AOL subscribers to "Face the Heat," as WWF "SUMMERSLAM" is simulcast live on the WWF's AOL area by two WWF Superstars, as well as a live chat session with a "SUMMERSLAM" participant following the event.

The WOW is still alive

We made it out. Everything is destroyed but we are not pinned in any shape or form. Everything that it took to put on our show was swallowed by 13 feet of water. Since we made everything ourselves and invented the way we carried out our show, we have every intent of rebuilding. We were in a deep rebuilding before the storm. Since we can now start from scratch, we can explore other ideas that were not possible before. I'm currently staying in Tuscaloosa Alabama and also keeping in contact with former wrestlers. It will take us a few more months to get through the insurance and lawyers, We'll start posting weekly updates when possible. All online content should be ok because all video and pics were hard copied to DVD. If the water didn't destroy them. I went to my house after the storm and tried to find them along with other things but a 6 ft. rattlesnake told my to leave. Rita came through and reflooded the house and I haven't gone back a second time. We based our home office in St. Bernard Parish La. I don't have to tell you what has happened there. We got it worse that anyone. My hometown is gone for now. But we'll show you why our show has gone on for 14 years. We made a good show. Katrina and Rita will help us to make it better.

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World Wrestling Entertainment is a publicly-traded company, but 70% of voting shares are owned by Chairman Vince McMahon, his wife, CEO Linda McMahon, his son, Executive Vice President of Global Media Shane McMahon, and his daughter, Vice President of Creative Writing Stephanie McMahon-Levesque. As of 2005, the headquarters of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. are located in Stamford, Connecticut at 1241 East Main Street.

World Wrestling Federation Entertainment,

World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWF) announced it is undertaking a campaign to encourage potential advertising and marketing partners to "Think Again" about the company's global World Wrestling Federation brand. While, over the past four years, World Wrestling Federation Entertainment has grown from 15 advertisers to more than 150 partners today - an increase of more than 1000%; the company is looking to aggressively add new advertising partners in the coming years.

World Wrestling Entertainment in Spain.

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in Madrid for its only show in Spain. WWE superstars Edge, Rey Mysterio, Chris Jericho, CM Punk and Chistian will no doubt thrill spanish fans with their favorite Smackdown programmes.

WRESTLING SHORT HISTORY

World Wrestling Entertainment’s (WWE) Vince and Linda McMahon are both masters at challenging and shattering conventional wisdom. They prove that anyone can build a Cult Brand. Neither Vince nor Linda McMahon grew up with a silver spoon in their mouths. In fact, Vince McMahon started out his career selling Encyclopedia Britannica door-to-door before eventually joining his father’s small wrestling company in 1971.

Building a national brand meant that they had to be willing to break the unwritten rule that the twenty or so regional promoters who controlled U.S. wrestling wouldn’t compete with each other. They began by taking what little profits they had and paying local TV stations to regularly broadcast tapes of their company’s wrestling matches. The McMahons figured that wrestling fans nationwide who watched on television would eventually find themselves craving an exciting live WWE match in their own towns, instead of the tame offerings of the local promoter. They were right. WWE’s risky TV broadcast strategy ended up working incredibly well.

It was 1982 when they first decided to really roll the dice in the wrestling world. The two convinced Vince’s father and partners to sell them the family wrestling business. They agreed to make four quarterly payments of roughly $250,000 each. If Vince and Linda missed a payment, they would lose everything, and the business would revert back to the partners of Vince’s father.

Four years after the McMahons started their videotape blitzkrieg, only a handful of regional wrestling operators remained in business, and these survivors were running scared. WWE’s promotions had not only won it thousands of new fans, but it also helped make the McMahons appear much larger and more powerful than they really were. Their risk taking redefined professional wrestling.

Today, WWE is the only international brand of any consequence in professional wrestling. Taking huge risks and always keeping the fans alive allowed Vince and Lind McMahon to build from scratch an entertainment empire that generates over $400 million in sales annually.

Wrestling

Wrestling Reality is a documentary television series airing on the Fight Network that follows the lives of a group of independent pro wrestlers in the Maritime provinces of Canada. The series will be 2 hours and consist of a documentary portion, as well as televised matches & shoot interviews. The series will tackle the many issues that go on behind the scenes in the world of professional wrestling including drug use, steroid use, injuries and all the emotional highs and lows that pro wrestlers deal with on a daily basis. For the first time ever the public will get a glimpse of what the lives of pro wrestlers are really like.

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is an integrated media and entertainment company headquartered in Stamford, Conn., with offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto and London. Additional information can be found at wwe.com and corporate.wwe.com. For additional information on WrestleMania XX, to be broadcast live on pay-per-view from Madison Square Garden in New York City on March 14, 2004, go to wrestlemania.wwe.com. TVN Entertainment Corporation; World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.

Wrestling was an important precolonial sport in many parts of Africa, including Nigeria. Today, Nigerian athletes perform at the world class level in many sports. At the 1996 Olympics, gold medals were awarded to the men's soccer team and the women's team in track and field

Wrestling disciplines defined by FILA, are broken down into two categories; International wrestling disciplines and folk wrestling disciplines. According to the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles, there are five current International wrestling disciplines acknowledged throughout the world. They are Greco-Roman Wrestling, Freestyle Wrestling, Grappling, Beach wrestling and Sambo.

"Entertainment Tonight," HSN and World Wrestling Entertainment as well as several Microsoft Web initiatives including the "Halo(R) 3" preview, Tafiti.com and The Podium '08 are just a few of the brands already demonstrating the power of Silverlight. "Entertainment Tonight," the No. 1 entertainment newsmagazine, worked with interactive design agencies REZN8 and IdentityMine Inc. to build a complete minisite dedicated to Emmy Award coverage linked from ETOnline.com and TheInsiderOnline.com. This is the first phase in ET's long-term commitment to build Silverlight-powered minisites to cover high-profile entertainment events.

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Conclusion: Other actions have been filed making similar allegations regarding the IPOs of more than 300 other companies. All of these have been coordinated for pretrial purposes as In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, Civil Action No. 21-MC-92. According to a Press Release dated December 5, 2001, a complaint was filed asserting claims under Sections 11, 12 and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5. The complaint alleges that World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. ("WWFE") and certain of its officers and directors at the time of its IPO violated the federal securities laws by issuing and selling WWFE common stock pursuant to the initial public offering without disclosing to investors that several of the underwriters of the IPO had solicited and received excessive and undisclosed commissions from certain investors. In exchange for the excessive commissions, the complaint alleges, defendants Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Incorporated, Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation, Wit Capital Corporation, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation and Chase H&Q (formerly Hambrecht & Quist) allocated WWFE shares to customers at the IPO price of $17.00 per share. To receive the allocations (i.e., the ability to purchase shares) at $17.00, the defendant underwriters' brokerage customers had to agree to purchase additional shares in the aftermarket at progressively higher prices. The requirement that customers make additional purchases at progressively higher prices as the price of WWFE stock rocketed upward (a practice known on Wall Street as "laddering") was intended to (and did) drive WWFE's share price up to artificially high levels. This artificial price inflation, the complaint alleges, enabled both the defendant underwriters and their customers to reap enormous profits by buying WWFE stock at the $17.00 IPO price and then selling it later for a profit at inflated aftermarket prices, which rose as high as$34.00 during its first day of trading. Rather than allowing their customers to keep their profits from the IPO, the complaint alleges, the defendant underwriters required their customers to "kick back" some of their profits in the form of secret commissions. These secret commission payments were sometimes calculated after the fact based on how much profit each investor had made from his or her IPO stock allocation. The complaint further alleges that defendants violated the Securities Act of 1933 because the Prospectus distributed to investors and the Registration Statement filed with the SEC in order to gain regulatory approval for the WWFE offering contained material misstatements regarding the commissions that the underwriters would derive from the IPO and failed to disclose the additional commissions and "laddering" scheme discussed above.

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World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), the promotion of professional wrestling largest in North America and around the world because of his extensive experience and their talents to defeat the enemy. The parent company company was formerly known as Titan Sports, Inc. .. Moreover, the organisation, such as the promotion of rings, names like Capitol Wrestling Corporation, the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) and the World Wrestling Federation, or WWF.
In 2005, the WWE began a program for the “Legends”, the continuation of the tradition of promoting the new members into the Hall of Fame of WWE on the weekend of Wrestlemania. This allows them to work with legends such as “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and Superstar Billy Graham to create goods such as clothing, figures, video games and DVDs. The legend program began informally with the introduction of WWE 24 / 7, the “on-demand” from the WWE and the successful DVD with the retrospect of history Ric Flair. Later this year were added to the list superstars like Dusty Rhodes, Big Van Vader and Jake “The Snake” Roberts.

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World Wrestling Entertainment

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) is a publicly-traded, privately-controlled integrated media (focusing in television, Internet, and live events) and sports entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales. Vince McMahon is the majority owner, chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company. Together with his wife Linda McMahon, and their children, Executive Vice President of Global Media, Shane McMahon and Executive Vice President of Talent and Creative Writing, Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, the McMahons hold approximately 70% of WWE's economic interest and 96% of the voting power in the company.
The company's global headquarters are located in Stamford, Connecticut with offices in Los Angeles, New York City, London, and Toronto. The company was previously known as Titan Sports before changing to World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc., and then becoming World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.
WWE's business focus is on professional wrestling, a simulated sport that consists of wrestling combined with acting and theatre. It is currently the largest professional wrestling promotion in the world and holds an extensive library of videos representing a significant portion of the visual history of professional wrestling. The promotion previously existed as the Capitol Wrestling Corporation, which promoted under the banner of the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF), and later the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). WWE promotes under three brands: Raw, SmackDown, and ECW. WWE is also home to three world heavyweight championships: the WWE Championship, the World Heavyweight Championship, and the ECW Championsh

WRESTLING MEDIA

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) is an integrated media and entertainment company. The Company develops creative content centered on its talent and presented at its live and televised events. Its three brands include Raw, SmackDown and ECW. The Company operates through four segments: Live and Televised Entertainment, Consumer Products, Digital Media and WWE Studios (formerly WWE Films).

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After suffering major blows, World Wrestling Entertainment, has come back to the linelight to promote Sports Entertainment.

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Official site with wrestler information, corporate details, news, merchandise, and a directory of affiliated sites.

Wrestling is an ancient martial art that uses grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, generally between two people, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position. Wrestling is one of the oldest of martial arts with references to it as early as the Iliad that recounts the Trojan War in the 13th or 12th century BC. There are a wide range of styles with varying rules with both traditional historic and modern styles. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into other martial arts as well as military hand-to-hand combat systems.

Mythology

Main article: Wrestling mythology

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel; illustration by Gustave Doré (1855)

Some of the earliest references to wrestling, can be found in wrestling mythology.

• The Mahabharata describes the encounter between the accomplished wrestlers Bhima and Jarasandha.
• The Epic of Gilgamesh: Gilgamesh established his credibility as a leader, after wrestling Enkidu.

• Greek mythology celebrates the rise of Zeus as ruler of the earth after a wrestling match with his father, Cronus. Both Heracles and Theseus were famous for their wrestling against man and beast.

By country

• Shuai Jiao, a wrestling style originating in China, has a reported history of over 4,000 years.

• In Egypt, wrestling has been evidenced by documentation on tombs (circa 2300 BC) and Egyptian artwork (2000-1085 BC).
• Greek wrestling was a popular form of martial art, at least in Ancient Greece (about 1100 to 146 BC).^[1]

• Roman Wrestling: After the Roman conquest of the Greeks, Greek wrestling was absorbed by the Roman culture and became Roman Wrestling during the period of the Roman Empire (510 BC to AD 500).^{[citation needed]}

• Arabic literature depicted Muhammad as a skilled wrestler, defeating a skeptic in a match at one point. By the eighth century, the Byzantine emperor Basil I, according to court historians, won in wrestling against a boastful wrestler from Bulgaria.^[2]
• In 1520 at the Field of the Cloth of Gold pageant, Francis I of France threw Henry VIII of England in a wrestling match.^[2]

• The Lancashire style of folk wrestling may have formed the basis for Catch wrestling also known as "catch as catch can." The Scots later formed a variant of this style, and the Irish developed the "collar-and-elbow" style which later found its way into the United States.^[3]

• A Frenchman ^{[n 1]} "is generally credited with reorganizing European loose wrestling into a professional sport", Greco-Roman wrestling. ^[4] This style which was finalized by the 19th century and by then, wrestling was featured in many fairs and festivals,in Europe.^[5]

Modern

Greco-Roman wrestling and modern freestyle wrestling were soon regulated in formal competitions, in part resulting from the rise of gymnasiums and athletic clubs.

On continental Europe, prize money was offered in large sums to the winners of Greco-Roman tournaments, and freestyle wrestling spread rapidly in the United Kingdom and in the United States after the American Civil War. Wrestling professionals soon increased the popularity of Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling, worldwide.^[3][6]

• Greco-Roman wrestling became an event at the first modern Olympic games, in Athens in 1896. Since 1908, the event has been in every Summer Olympics.

• Freestyle wrestling became an olympic event, in 1904. Women's freestyle wrestling was added to the Summer Olympics in 2004.

Since 1921, the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA) has regulated amateur wrestling as an athletic discipline, while professional wrestling has largely become infused with theatrics but still requires athletic ability.