The Summarized History Of WWE From 1952-2018.
Year 1952 |
Roderick
James Jess McMahon and Joseph Raymond aka Toots Mondt establish the
company with the name Capitol Wrestling Corporation (CWC). It began as a fragment
of the bigger National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) which controlled a number of
other wrestling organizations. |
Year 1963 |
The Capitol
Wrestling Corporation left the National Wrestling Alliance due to a misapprehension
for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and hence forming the World Wide
Wrestling Federation (WWWF) in the Progression. The
legendary Buddy Rogers became the foundational WWWF Champion. Later on,
the same year, Bruno Sammartino won the WWWF Championship and retained
it for a total of 2,803 days, probably the greatest and longest title reign
ever recorded in Wrestling History. |
Year 1969 |
Vincent
Kennedy McMahon came to unite with Vincent James McMahon, his father, in the
Wrestling promotion. |
Year 1971 |
Vincent James
McMahon took over from his father and adopts full control of the organization. |
Year 1979 |
Vincent
Kennedy McMahon impetuses Vincent James McMahon, his father, to change the
company’s name to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). |
Year 1980 |
Vincent
Kennedy McMahon together with Linda McMahon, his wife, established Titan
Sports and acquired the WWF trademark. |
Year 1983 |
Vincent
Kennedy McMahon acquired Capitol Sports, the WWF parental company from Vincent
James McMahon.
Vincent
Kennedy McMahon ventured a new idea to facilitate the company growth. He contended
on assembling it as a national promotion so as to fully cut off ties from the
NWA in order for the company to be its own body. Vincent
Kennedy McMahon deals with landmark TV to show WWF all over the United
States. |
Year 1984 |
Hulkamania,
Hulk Hogan was uplifted to main event position and defeated the Iron Shiek on
January 24 at Madison Square Garden. The onset of The Hulkamania, Hulk Hogan
launched the Wrestling Golden Age as it went conventional. |
Year 1985 |
WrestleMania
was introduced and went on to attracting celebrities in which included the
likes of Mohammed Ali, Liberace, Mr. T and Cyndi Lauper as it became an exciting
success. The same
year, Vincent Kennedy McMahon drops concentrations to Entertainment than
wrestling thus conveying the company conventional demand. He added other more PPVs
like Royal Rumble, SummerSlam, The King of the Ring and Survivor Series. |
Year 1993 |
The WWF became
major following the launch of Monday Night Raw that aired on the USA Network. This year
also ignites the rise of Legends like The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, Bret
‘The Hitman’ Hart, Diesel, Razor Ramon, etc. Later on,
the same year, Hulk Hogan left the company and was signed up by World
Championship Wrestling (WCW). |
Year 1995 |
WCW’s
Monday Nitro was launched on TNT, went head-to-head with Raw hence
the formation of the Monday Night Wars. |
Year 1997 |
Vincent
Kennedy McMahon announced the beginning of the Attitude Era with touchier characters.
This gave rise to figures like Stone Cold Steve Austin, HHH, The Rock,
Mankind, Kurt Angle and groups such as Degeneration X and The Nation of Domination |
Year 1998 |
Raw Lastly
Defeated Nitro in the ratings after a total of 84 straight weeks and persisted
its domination on forward. |
Year 1999 |
Smackdown was
launched as a new brand on the UPN Network. World
Wrestling Entertainment finally emerged Public and was transacted on the New
York Stock Exchange. |
Year 2001 |
WWF at end
bought WCW thus becoming the biggest wrestling promotion world wide. |
Year 2002 |
WWF lost a
lawsuit conveyed at them by the World Wildlife Foundation over the monograms
of WWF. The corporation later transformed their name to World Wrestling
Entertainment (WWE) On May 06, 2002. |
Year 2008 |
The
Ruthless Aggression Era ended and the company interchanges from touchier
content to family welcoming audience. This became to be recognized as the PG
era by fans with John Cena as the poster boy of the generation. |
Year 2014 |
Labeled by
fans, the Reality Era was set offs, this had realistic events varying things
and charming storylines. Daniel Bryan emerged as the face of the era
together with Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose of the Shield. |
Year 2016 |
This gave
rise to the New Era as Women begun to main event on grand stages unlike other
times in all Wrestling history. Raw and
Smackdown befitted into two distinct brands with each owning their identifiable
championships. |
Year 2018 |
The first
ever Women’s PPV was declared on Raw and took place on October 28, 2018. |