Wrestling Action Figures
In Mexico, the top promotion is Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre ; in Japan, it is New Japan Pro Wrestling ; and in SA, it is World Wrestling professionals. Wrestling action figures are quite popular. Currently, the dominant pro wrestling company worldwide is the United States-based World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ), which soaked up many smaller regional firms in the late twentieth century, as well as its first competitors in the 1990s, World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) & intense Championship Wrestling ( ECW ).
Home video sales rule the billboard charts Recreational Sports DVD sales, with wrestling holding anywhere from 3 to 9 of the top 10 spots each week. Billboard's 2008 year-end sales show World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) holding 14 of the top 20 for the entire year of 2008. Although professional wrestling started out as petty acts in sideshows and traveling circuses and carnivals, today it is a billion-dollar industry that draws money from ticket sales, television broadcasts, branded merchandise and home video. It was instrumental in making pay-per-view a viable methodology of content delivery. Yearly shows like WrestleMania are among the highest-selling pay-per-view programming.
Professional wrestling action figures have become a pervasive form of entertainment particularly in Japan and north american nations. In Brazil, it was extremely popular from the 1960s to the early 1980s, where it was called Telecatch. Highly visible figures in the "sport" often become cultural icons in their local or adopted home states, such as beautiful George, Andr the Giant, Ric flair, Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and The Rock in the U. S. ; Rikidozan, Antonio Inoki, Giant Baba, Jumbo Tsuruta and The Crush Gals ( Chigusa Nagayo and Lioness Asuka ) in Japan ; Mario Milano and Nathan Jones in Australia ; El Santo, Blue devil, bloody Guerrero and Mil Mscaras in Mexico ; Ted Boy Marino in Brazil ; Giant Haystacks and enormous daddy in the united kingdom ; and Bret Hart in Canada. Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a course of study on the cultural significance of professional wrestling.
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