"its not wrestling its sports entertainment" WRONG

[Bobafett]

I really am getting fed up of when someone makes a comment about the WWE and wrestling and you always get someone

I used this arguement in another post but i'm posting it anyway

I know this will sound silly but it is world WRESTLING Entertainment.

thats what the program is called

The moves aren;t superstar moves, uits wrestling moves

its not a superstar ring its a wrestling ring

you get the point

the fact isits ok to call em wrestlers

I mean if he doesn't want it assosiated with wrestling why not rename it the WSE World Sports Entertainment?

I mean honestly thats like the people running..say baseball telling everyone in the buisness not to call it basenball or refer to the players as players but superstars.

or

its not actors in a movie, they are superstars of hollywood

vince need to relise what the hell it is he is running

put it another way HHH grew up watching WRESTLERS, thats why he got into the buisness, thats why everyone does, to be a wrestler, how many would (truthfully say "I wanna be a sports entertainer, I wanna be a superstar" ? ).

the fact is its Sports entertainment meaning its using sport as the medium to entertain, like a production company may use a comedy to entertain us but we don;'t call those productin companys programs comedy entertainment or something crap like that..its a comedy simple as that

WWE/Titan towers choose to entertain us by making a wrestling program, they chose Wrestling as the sport thats the sport in SPORTS entertainment, deal with it

its like WBF was an attempt to use bodybuilding as the sport to entertain and XFL was the attempt to use football in the same way, its just that wrestling is more sucessful

I rest my case

(for some reason I imagine this rant being read in bits by Sam Kiniston )

[Michael Coello]

So, are you yelling at us, the WWE or what?

[bret screwed bret]

sinister1 said:

So, are you yelling at us, the WWE or what?

[Bobafett]

well..a bit of both..but in the WWE's cas its a very very angry yell, in you guys cases its more like "come on guys..don't buy into the WE's way f thionking on this "

[Shy Guy]

see, the thing is, is that you can say its world WRESTLING entertainment

or

world wrestling ENTERTAINMENT

[Lenny: Smooth like Keith Stone]

or

WORLD wrestling entertainment.

You know, in case anyone thinks it's just continental.

[Bobafett]

the fact is it says wrestling in it

[The OP]

Yeah, that is really stupid. I can understand why they would consider it more glamorous to call them Superstars, but I certainly don't think it should be taboo to call them wrestlers. That's just dumb.

[leemir]

Didn't you hear? they changed the name to World Wide Entertainment, it's a Sports Entertainment, Music & Movies company.

[BRV]

It's almost gotten to the point where hearing the word "wrestler" or "wrestling" is weird. A few months back, they called a match between Kurt Angle and (I believe) Rey Mysterio, Jr. "An old fashioned wrestling match." and my head nearly exploded.

[thiazzi]

They always say "wrestling" "wrestler" "wrestle" "wrestled" "has wrestled" and other forms of the word when BENOIT is tearing someone a new asshole.

[DukeDavis]

There was that article after Heyman got released where they bracketed [sports entertainment] in front of wrestling.

[EvilMasterBetty, Esq.]

To me, "Sports Entertainment" is just a show that is supposed to be a sport but is really just entertainment, meaning there is no actual competition. The thing is, the only "sports entertainment" i can think of are wrestling and Rollerjam. You could argue that boxing is also dangerously close to that as well.

I just feel like people bow this way out of proportion.

[carter 15]

get over it. they're only words.

[stevolution]

It's all just empty terminology to me. As much as WWE tries to force the term Sports Entertainment on the entire industry Sports Entertainment just a sub genre of Wrestling. I don't hear regular people call it sports entertainment. They call it wrestling. I once told someone (I think it was my brother) that WWE don't like to use the terms Wrestling or Wrestler and they said "Well what the are you suppose to call it then?" When I told them Sports Entertainment or Sports Entertainment and they rolled their eyes laughed and said "Ok, whatever."

[Deleted]

I personally prefer the term, 'Aggressive Ballet.'

[Corporate H]

Sports Entertainment is just another word for Professional Wrestling. In this day in age when pretty much everyone is a smart fan it is a fitting title. It's less insulting.