HISTORY OF WWE
Company history
Main article: History of WWE
Prior to Titan Sports
Main article: Capitol Wrestling Corporation
WWE's origins can be traced back as far as
1952 when Roderick James "Jess" McMahon
and Toots Mondt created the Capitol
Wrestling Corporation Ltd. (CWC), which
joined the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)
in 1953. McMahon, who was a successful
boxing promoter, began working with Tex
Rickard in 1926. With the help of Rickard, he
began promoting boxing and wrestling at the
third Madison Square Garden. It was not the
first time McMahon had promoted wrestling
cards , as he had already done so during the
1910s.
In November 1954, McMahon died and Ray
Fabiani, one of Mondt's associates, brought in
McMahon's son Vincent James . [14] The
younger McMahon and Mondt were very
successful and soon controlled approximately
70% of the NWA's booking, largely due to their
dominance in the heavily populated Northeast
region. In 1963, McMahon and Mondt had a
dispute with the NWA over "Nature Boy"
Buddy Rogers being booked to hold the NWA
World Heavyweight Championship . [15] Both
men left the company in protest and formed
the WWWF in the process, awarding Rogers
the newly created WWWF World Heavyweight
Championship in April of that year. He lost the
championship to Bruno Sammartino a month
later on May 17, 1963, after suffering a heart
attack a week before the match.
Capitol operated the WWWF in a conservative
manner compared to other pro wrestling
territories: [16] it ran its major arenas monthly
rather than weekly or bi-weekly, usually
featuring a babyface (heroic character)
champion wrestling various heels (villainous
character) in programs that consisted of one
to three matches. [17] After gaining a
television program deal and hiring Lou Albano
as a manager for Sammartino's heel
opponents, the WWWF was doing sellout
business by 1970.
Mondt left Capitol in the late sixties and
although the WWWF had withdrawn from the
NWA, Vince McMahon, Sr. quietly re-joined in
1971. Capitol renamed the World Wide
Wrestling Federation to the World Wrestling
Federation (WWF) in 1979
Main article: History of WWE
Prior to Titan Sports
Main article: Capitol Wrestling Corporation
WWE's origins can be traced back as far as
1952 when Roderick James "Jess" McMahon
and Toots Mondt created the Capitol
Wrestling Corporation Ltd. (CWC), which
joined the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)
in 1953. McMahon, who was a successful
boxing promoter, began working with Tex
Rickard in 1926. With the help of Rickard, he
began promoting boxing and wrestling at the
third Madison Square Garden. It was not the
first time McMahon had promoted wrestling
cards , as he had already done so during the
1910s.
In November 1954, McMahon died and Ray
Fabiani, one of Mondt's associates, brought in
McMahon's son Vincent James . [14] The
younger McMahon and Mondt were very
successful and soon controlled approximately
70% of the NWA's booking, largely due to their
dominance in the heavily populated Northeast
region. In 1963, McMahon and Mondt had a
dispute with the NWA over "Nature Boy"
Buddy Rogers being booked to hold the NWA
World Heavyweight Championship . [15] Both
men left the company in protest and formed
the WWWF in the process, awarding Rogers
the newly created WWWF World Heavyweight
Championship in April of that year. He lost the
championship to Bruno Sammartino a month
later on May 17, 1963, after suffering a heart
attack a week before the match.
Capitol operated the WWWF in a conservative
manner compared to other pro wrestling
territories: [16] it ran its major arenas monthly
rather than weekly or bi-weekly, usually
featuring a babyface (heroic character)
champion wrestling various heels (villainous
character) in programs that consisted of one
to three matches. [17] After gaining a
television program deal and hiring Lou Albano
as a manager for Sammartino's heel
opponents, the WWWF was doing sellout
business by 1970.
Mondt left Capitol in the late sixties and
although the WWWF had withdrawn from the
NWA, Vince McMahon, Sr. quietly re-joined in
1971. Capitol renamed the World Wide
Wrestling Federation to the World Wrestling
Federation (WWF) in 1979
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