The physical media for this exists!!!! pre labeling so I don't get dinged by bloosk
www.imdb.com/title/tt3348...
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...America's other pro sports because it doesn't qualify on one simple but critical point: It's not a competitive sport. And, although we insisted otherwise for years, that's absolutely true. What it actually is, simply stated, is sports entertainment.
What critics choose to ignore, however, is one essential point that links pro wrestling to baseball, football, basketball, and every other professional sport: They're all entertainments with an economic bottom line, and they're staged for no other reason than giving the paying customers a show. [highlighted text starts] Once you sell a ticket to an athletic contest, it stops being a sport and becomes a business. [highlight ends]
Pro wrestling became what it is in order to survive as a business, and that's really not so different than what the national football league, major league baseball, and the National Basketball Association themselves have done over the years. Baseball's designated hitter, lively ball, shortened outfield fences, and lowered pitcher's mound; basketball's shot clock, three-point hoop, and dunk shot; football's annual rewrite of its rules (mostly adding restrictions upon defensive players to give the offense a better chance to score points), even to changing the shape of the ball to make it easier to throw - all those changes and more were made for one simple reason: to provide the paying customers with a more exciting product that would keep them coming back for more.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nbwpgshekrjqaeh2bcyoqm3r/bafkreidpopmzbhu32gd5gfnxpfjw63dvendyzlnh26jk3d6u6yuxxqh6si)
