Category:Professional wrestling

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Professional wrestling is a form of entertainment where the participants engage in simulated wrestling matches for means of entertainment. It is believed that the origins of professional wrestling began in Greece, where it was a hybrid of Greco-Roman wrestling and hand-to-hand combat. The earliest records of professional wrestling in the United States date back to the beginning of the twentieth century and the company now known as the National Wrestling Alliance, or "Association", as it was once referred. In its purported rules and competitions, it apes the convention of sport. During its earlier history, professional wrestling promoters and performers claimed that the competition was real, and varying fractions of the audience have believed this to be the case (a situation known as kayfabe). Any pretence to be a sporting competition was dropped in the 1990s, when Vince McMahon's WWF wrestling organization began describing its events as "sports entertainment".

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