Seems to be a North vs South thing from talking to friends as we all where WCW fans not WWF. While a few of my friends from up north loved WWF.

There's a lot of fit, athletic guys that could physically handle the mechanics of pro wrestling without getting hurt or hurting the other guys, but that's not what makes a prowrestler. What makes a pro wrestler is the sell and the gimmick. The rest is just practice and techniques. The audience comes for the meller drammer of the sell and the gimmick, not the athleticism.

The WWF of the 80s and early 90s was cartoonish and over the top. JCP/NWA is recognized as being the more realistic product. That changed when JCP sold out to Turner and people like Jim Herd took charge of WCW.

As I was growing up, Mid Atlantic was my standard as I could watch every week. My experience with WWF was limited to SNME and VHS tapes. I enjoyed them both for what they were. But in WWF you would never see something like the Road Warriors drive a spike into Dusty's eye. There wasn't much 'real' heat in WWF.

But it kind of comes down to a conversation between McMahon and Ted Turner. When Turner bought JCP, he is rumored to have called McMahon and proclaimed that he was now in the rasslin business. McMahon is said to have replied that he was in the entertainment business. And therein lies the reason that McMahon is a billionaire.