Professional Wrestling - Exposing American Culture

Wrestling - Exposing American Culture

Wrestling on television today is a window into the basis of the American culture. It shows our need for violence and sex at an accessible arena. It’s not extremely graphic but it’s what serves a wide variety of audiences. It reaches a wide range of people, everyone from 10-12 year olds and elderly men and women.

The largest demographic for them is the 18-24 year olds.

Today in the American society the highest rated weekly television show is the

WWF “RAW IS WAR” followed closely by the WWF “WARZONE”. Both of these shows are wrestling shows. Wrestling is not a very complex sport, It basically is two combatants trying to beat up each other until one either is counted down with there shoulders on the mat for 3 seconds, till they submit, are knocked unconscious, or are disqualified. The way to get disqualified in most matches is to bring and weapon to the ring, have out side interference by a team member, or be outside the ring for more the a ten second count by the ref. To score these victories they use some moves that are very technical and precise but other moves our punches and kicks. The wrestlers dress in mostly bright colored and tight clothes that have there name or “catch phrase” written on it.

Wrestling goes straight to it’s demographic audience when it gets sponsors like Castrol motor oil, RC cola, Chef Boyarde, and Tower Records. The color commentators plug these every chance they get before or after the matches. The fans of this sport cheer every chance they get and bring large signs for everyone to see. even though the fans don’t physically get into a match, they psychologically distract some wrestlers with blaring chants that go straight to the wrestlers brain.

There are 2 announcers that sit at ringside and tell the actions of the match witch includes telling who did what, what happened on previous shows, and why 2 wrestlers are engaged in this type of combat. Even though wrestling is called a fake sport it can be very tiring on peoples body’s, minds, and souls. They get beat up and slanders yelled at for a living. These men and women can show the best and worst side of the American culture in a single show. They can show that hard work pays off in the long run and that cheating pays off right away. It lets us praise the

“good” guys and boo the “bad” guys. It sometimes shows a piece of American