So what’s the key to pro wrestling’s success?
It’s a blend of dramatic storytelling and raw athleticism that has been described as “sports entertainment,” a phrase McMahon coined to describe pro wrestling in 1989. When he did so, he broke the illusion that wrestling was an athletic endeavor on par with other professional sports, but at the same time, he declared that pro wrestling had something entirely unique to offer: an art form developed around a distinct set of storytelling principles that plays with the concept of reality and rewards fans who are “in on it.”
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