Professional Wrestling Proposal
Part I:Interest and Motivation
The topic I have chosen to write about is the world of
professional wrestling. There are many reasons as to why this subject has
interested me. One major reason is that I grew up watching pro-wrestling
on television. As a child, I was fascinated with the spectacle of the
wrestling matches and wondered at the wrestlers themselves. At that age, I
took wrestling for what it was. It was a full-contact gladiator sport
filled with exaggerated and extravagant wrestlers, cocky commentators, and
interesting "one-of-a kind" personalities which added up to a high
entertainment value.
As I got older and more aware of the sport, I did not just see it
as another part of sports entertainment but also as a multi-million dollar
business which catered to a wide audience. I began to wonder what was it
that made this popular genere work and how it was able to attract the
crowds of people, young and old. I also wanted to know the history of
pro-wrestling. How did it get started and how it became a part of the
American culture? As a fan for several of my childhood years, I now wanted
to know the real deal behind wrestling.
The professional wrestling sport is a very secretive business. It
is on a "what you see is what you get" basis. Many of the fans take the
sport for face value and enjoy it for what it is, even if many of them are
uninformed on the inside workings of it all. Although many books have been
published about wrestling, a high number of them are as cryptic and
secretive as the business itself. That is why I am motivated to go into an
in-depth research to answer and unravel the questions of the professional
wrestling world. Professional Wrestling. Part II: Knowledge and
Preconceptions.
After being exposed to professional wrestling for quite sometime,
I became somewhat knowledgeable of the sport. I became familiar with most
of the wrestling superstars it produced, notably Hulk Hogan which many
consider the icon of pro- wrestling. I was also mindful of the wrestling
maneuvers and techniques that were used. Although I knew all this, it was
all common knowledge. Through personal experience, the people I know who
are fans of the sport only know this basic ideology of its premise.
I feel that one major reason for the scarce information on pro-
wrestling is due to the lack of media coverage. Wrestling is infamous for
blurring the lines between true sport and pure entertainment. Many major
news, magazines, and articles rarely cover the wrestling world because of
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