Professional wrestling is considered one of the most controversial and entertaining industries in America today. With a rich history of how wrestling evolved from sport to entertainment, how the business has been run, and the effects of professional wrestling in the present.
             Professional wrestling has made a great evolution from being a sport, into becoming sports-entertainment. "Wrestling protrays a sort of warped, exaggerated version of life, complete with it's rich history and folklore, and system of justice. (Kondratowicz "Jesus is Their Co-Pilot") But in the early days, wrestling was real. In that it was what we now call amateur wrestling, although done in the significant wrestling ring. Though back in those days they were still surrounded by ring ropes, played to the crowd, and had a few fixed matches from bribes, it's nowhere near what wrestling is today. Today, wrestling is completely planned out, with every aspect of the sport focused not on athletic competition, but fan entertainment. Many people call wrestling "fake", yet that nowhere near describes the wrestling industry. Wrestling isn't meant to be perceived as a competitive sport these days, wrestling is just as scripted as any play that you go to in a theater. Though the biggest portion of wrestling's revenue is based upon marks, which is a slang term for a gullible fan, wrestling relies on it's smarts, slang term for a fan who knows wrestling's industry, to be loyal to the sport and help wrestling to survive through the bad times. Marks are the kind of people/fans that believe wrestling is "real", they cheer for whoever is shown to be the good guy, and they boo whoever they're basically told to boo by the storylines. Smarts, however, are the type of fan who realizes the business portion of the wrestling industry; smarts know wrestling is scripted, and do not care. They enjoy the entertainment fact...