{"id":10259,"date":"2024-04-08T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cosmundus.com\/?p=10259"},"modified":"2024-06-12T16:57:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:57:42","slug":"history-of-professional-wrestling-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cosmundus.com\/en\/history-of-professional-wrestling-0\/","title":{"rendered":"History of professional wrestling, from carnivals to WrestleMania XL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Professional wrestling is a unique blend of sports and theater, athleticism and entertainment, in which larger than life characters face each other in staged and dramatized matches, under the pretense of actual competition, creating a form of suspension of disbelief similar to that employed with works of fiction. While now professional wrestling is a global phenomenon, it has very humble origins, and it underwent several transformations and various periods of widespread popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The history of professional wrestling is long, complex, and full of plot twists. In order to explain it to its fullest extent, I ended up writing an extremely long article, and I even cut a lot of other facts. I divided the entire history into six chapters. The first one will be published immediately, while the others will come out over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Note: the articles include spoilers for events up to WrestleMania XL.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmundus.com\/history-of-professional-wrestling-1\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Chapter 1: the origins<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmundus.com\/history-of-professional-wrestling-2\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Chapter 2: the territory era<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmundus.com\/history-of-professional-wrestling-3\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Chapter 3: the 1980s boom<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmundus.com\/history-of-professional-wrestling-4\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Chapter 4: the Monday Night War<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmundus.com\/history-of-professional-wrestling-5\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Chapter 5: WWE dominance<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmundus.com\/history-of-professional-wrestling-6\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Chapter 6: professional wrestling today<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional wrestling is a unique blend of sports and theater, athleticism and entertainment, in which larger than life characters face each other in staged and dramatized matches, under the pretense of actual competition, creating a form of suspension of disbelief similar to that employed with works of fiction. 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