The thing we have to remember about wrestling is that it is a business; people tend to treat it differently due to its athletic stand point. But it is still a business always was a business and always will be a business. And in businesses competition is an essential, it is needed the stronger the competition the better the product will be, competition is beneficial to wrestling. If a business has no competition then there is no effort or fight needed for that company to be number 1 anymore, competition is non existent right now which explains the decline in the wrestling market, because Vince McMahon may be a great businessman but if he has no reason to fight for the number 1 spot then why should he?

WWE the premier sports entertainment brand has no competition, TNA aren't even close to competing with WWE. And with the ratings and gross revenue TNA achieve it is very doubtful that they will ever be competition. The best years of wrestling are the 80's and late 90's and if you look back there was some heavy competition there.

In the 1980's it was NWA vs. WWF, NWA a wrestling dynasty playing host to some of the most historic events in wrestling history. And the WWF boom had just begun; these 2 promotions did so well because they were constantly trying to one up the other. The competition was so strong because on both sides of the promotion had such a quality product, and that just wasn't by luck or anything like that. That was simply about because Jim Crockett and Vince McMahon couldn't afford to fail.

A much more updated version of a war was WCW vs WWF, which is deemed by many as the biggest promotion war in wrestling history and to this I would definitely agree with. Both promotions wanted to out live the other so much that it made for great TV. During the dying days of NWA the wrestling market went on a decline again because NWA may have been alive but were losing there marquee talent, the talent that brought in money for NWA. WWF won that war, and after that there was only one promotion left, and during the "Wrestlecrap" era that was a very bad time to be a fan. It was the same old crap we have seen before, like Hulk Hogan reigning supreme again, but Vince had no reason to change that who could possibly over take him? There was nobody left.

But then there was a shiny ray of light as WCW came onto the scene, and when they did it changed the world of professional wrestling Ted Turner was spending money like there was no tomorrow. WCW may have started

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