Why WWE Just Perfected Sports Entertainment...
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🗓️ 15 February 2023
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WWE just crafted pure, unfiltered sports entertainment genius...
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| 0:00.0 | That's right, perfect hit sports entertainment, oh shanit all down. |
| 0:04.7 | Although don't do that because I'm having a great time. |
| 0:07.7 | Because for years WWE and Vince McMahon have been shouting about sports entertainment and |
| 0:12.1 | sure there are a lot of times where you're all like, oh well I tell you, my sport was |
| 0:16.2 | just entertained, but in somewhat of a right twist Triple H just took over and yeah. |
| 0:22.4 | As the title says, WWE may just have perfected sports entertainment. |
| 0:28.6 | So right away we should take note that the term sports entertainment has actually been |
| 0:40.2 | around for quite a while. |
| 0:41.2 | I think Vince McMahon first dropped it back in 1989 when he was talking to the New Jersey |
| 0:45.8 | Commission and say, look, you don't need to make us pay all this extra money because |
| 0:50.6 | we're a sport, because we're not a sport, we're da da da, sports entertainment. |
| 0:55.7 | So we are coming on 30 years, but as long as I'm concerned, it really came on to |
| 0:59.2 | its own when WWE took the company public and then did so again after they said goodbye |
| 1:04.1 | TV 14, we're going to become TV PG and the reason they did all of this is because they wanted |
| 1:09.9 | more sponsorships, they wanted more licenses and they just wanted a big bag of cash. |
| 1:14.6 | But basically, McMahon thought it sounded much more friendlier than the smoke filled bars |
| 1:19.3 | that many people associated pro wrestling with. |
| 1:22.0 | And what you have to do is go back to many a promotion from a yesterday and see them |
| 1:26.5 | taking place in massive arenas, but hey, stereotype is a stereotype, sometimes you can't get away |
| 1:32.0 | from it. |
| 1:33.0 | I mean, World Class or Jim Crockett would be able to do this within seconds and then of |
| 1:36.0 | course, as soon as you get one buzz word, you get a bunch of buzz words, much like the |
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