How Professional Wrestling Has Effected Children in the 90's
A worldwide phenomenon has swept our worlds people. It has sold out huge stadiums every Monday, Tuesday, and once a month Sundays. This phenom is called Pro-Wrestling, and it seems to have a death grip on today's youth. I for the most part am an avid fan of wrestling and consider myself very knowledgeable on this subject. That is why I feel that I am able to show an unbiased view of wrestling and what happens behind the scenes, and around children's homes. The company called WWFE (World Wrestling Federation Enterprises) went from a small company into a huge corporation basically overnight, and then drifted into obscurity again. The WWF's first popularity influx occurred in the mid 1980's due to a man called Terry Boella, better known as Hulk Hogan. His charisma and basic likeability made people take a liking to his character right away. Hogan was quoted as saying, "I am happy that I can bring the business that I have put my blood, sweat, and tears into straight up to the top of the world" (Hogan) Unfortunately, Vince McMahon, the CEO of the WWF, was involved in a scandal that shocked the world. He was handing out steroids to his employees, in order to make them bigger and more intimidati
There have also been problems with these matches, because kids doing "high-risk" maneuvers on other kids have caused death. A 17 year old from Massachusetts was killed after he was piledrived onto a metal chair. That isn't as bad as some of the other wrestling that occurs in these federations. The kids have been known to use weapons, which include chairs, cheese graters, pizza cutters, broken glass, barbed wire, and fire in their matches. Thomas, Karen. "Wannabes are Mimicking Sports, Uhm, Racier Moves" WWF Corporation Site. May 2000
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