"L Alpert"  wrote in message 
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> "Dillon Pyron"  wrote in message 
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>> Thus spake "L Alpert"  :
>>
>>>
>>>"David E. Milligan" 
wrote in message
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>>>>
>>>> "Ralph Mowery"
 wrote in message
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>>>>>
>>>>> "d"  wrote in message
>>>>> news:J6OdnXpqoZEgxS7VnZ2dnUVZ_g6dnZ2d{at}comcast.com...
>>>>>> Wow, this channel only seems to get worse and worse.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Who watches it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anybody believe its real? If so, do you also
believe in the
>>>>>> Easter Bunny?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rick
>>>>> This is the fiction channel.
>>>>> The wrestling is not real,but more scripted like a soap opera or
>>>>> comic show.
>>>>> It took me years to come to the conclusion that it was just for
>>>>> show and entertainment.  I knew the wrestling was fake, but just
>>>>> did not see what people saw in it for a long time.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        That's why it is now called WWE -- World  Wrestling
>>>> ENTERTAINMENT.
>>>
>>>
>>>Only because WWF was a previously owned copyright of another
>>>orginization  ;-)
>>
>> The ;-) makes me uncertain.  I believe that WWF morphed into WWE under
>> the same mismanagement, didn't it?  Not that I really know.  I quit
>> watching "pro wrestling" when BoBo Brazil retired
(google "bobo bop")
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
> The World Wildlife Fund (www.wwf.org) sued the then known WWF, forcing
then to change their 
> nomenclature.

        Originally, it was the WWWF - World Wide Wrestling Federation under
Vince McMahon Sr. When 
Junior (Vinnie Mac [aka the Genetic Jackhammer] ) took over, he shortened
it to the WWF. It took 
10 - 15 years before the World Wildlife Fund got around to suing, and
eventually winning. So WWF 
became WWE.

>
> BoBo and his infamous "Coco butt".....I remember him as a
kid when my dad knew the promoter in 
> Convention Hall (Asbury Park, NJ) and used to get all the kids in the
neighborhood front row 
> ringside tickets.  I realized later my dad had an ulterior motive, as
we all couldn't talk for 
> days after screaming half the night of the matches!
>
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