~~Sports Entertainment vs. Wrestling~~

Vince McMahon is a genius for classifying his product as Sports Entertainment. 'Professional Wrestling' is pretty tarnished (due to 'worked' or fake matches) as a brand so the switch was a great idea for him. He could also get around the State Athletic Commissions that way too. The funny thing is, here are some of the 'Sports Entertainment' brothers and sisters of WWE:

-The first that comes to mind is the Harlem Globetrotters.
-The Ice Capades is Sports Entertainment
-Cirque Du Soliel is Sports Entertainment
-Roller Derby is Sports Entertainment
-Monster Truck Rallies are Sports Entertainment

I applaud his branding of Sports Entertainment as something completely different from wrestling and I laugh out loud to hear Ice Capades and WWE lumped together like this.

In a perfect world, the word 'wrestling' would refer to folkstyle, freestyle, greco-roman, catch as catch can, collar and elbow, etc. Unfortunately, most people still confuse the WWE product with 'wrestling'.

Maybe someday we'll get some sort of league akin to the NFL, NBA, of NHL with real wrestlers having legitimate contests. The best chance of that happening right now seems to be the guys over at the (UFC) and (Real Pro-Wrestling). I find it hard to believe given the Olympic interest in combat sports (judo, boxing, freestyle and greco-roman wrestling, and tae kwon do) that the commercial interest is not there...