Do Not Call WWE A Wrestling Company

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Originally Posted by Gertner It is entertainment. It's fake. Very little actual wrestling actually goes on. I don't know why people care about this.

I don't think people "care" as much as they are calling bullshit on this. Look here:

Originally Posted by Fred Bizkit “We are no longer a wrestling company but rather a global entertainment company with a movie studio, international licensing deals, publisher of three magazines, consumer good distributor and more.” The publicist further said “No, we don’t do wrestling events. They’re entertainments. And we don’t call them wrestlers. They’re superstars and divas.”

That's some dumb shit right there. International licensing deals? To make action figures of your wrestlers and video games featuring them. Puplisher of three magazines? Three WRESTLING magazines. And so on. Even their movie studio features their wrestlers.

It just sounds so desperate to appear to be something they are quite clearly not.

Originally Posted by Xero Also, the WWE name can be seen as MTV. MTV still has a bit of music on it, but for the most part, it isn't music. WWE still has "wrestling" on it, but for the most part, it isn't wrestling. I'd imagine that's their line of thinking.

TBF, over here in the UK the MTV channel has been moved from the "music" listings to the "entertainment" section on Sky/cable TV. Not sure if that was their call or not.

Are we suggesting that WWE programming should be moved off of Sky Sports and on to one of their "entertainment" channels? Would that be a big deal?