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The 48 pages that link to Professional wrestling, each with the reason it gives.

• Vince McMahonNarrower topic: McMahon’s business and public persona developed within this entertainment form.

• WWENarrower topic: WWE is one of the world's largest professional wrestling companies.

• World Championship WrestlingNarrower topic: WCW's decline altered the competitive landscape of the wider industry.

• WrestleManiaNarrower topic: WrestleMania is the largest annual showcase of this performance form in WWE.

• Hulk HoganNarrower topic: Hogan’s rise illustrates how wrestling became a mass-market entertainment business.

• KayfabeNarrower topic: Kayfabe is the convention that presents this staged entertainment as genuine competition.

• Sports entertainmentNarrower topic: Sports entertainment is the promotional framing most closely associated with this form.

• Bret HartNarrower topic: Hart’s work illustrates how athletic technique and planned storytelling operate together.

• Lou TheszNarrower topic: Thesz’s career unfolded within the evolving conventions of this staged sport.

• Lucha libreNarrower topic: Lucha libre is a distinctive national style within this broader performance tradition.

• Ric FlairNarrower topic: Flair’s career belongs to this performance tradition, where athletic execution and storytelling work together.

• RikidōzanNarrower topic: Rikidōzan’s fame came from adapting this entertainment form for a Japanese mass audience.

• Ronda RouseyNarrower topic: Rousey moved from competitive MMA into this performance-based combat entertainment.

• André the GiantNarrower topic: André's career helped define the larger spectacle of televised professional wrestling.

• Roddy PiperNarrower topic: Piper’s career and persona developed within this performance tradition.

• Shawn MichaelsNarrower topic: Michaels’s career became part of the genre’s modern performance tradition.

• Stone Cold Steve AustinNarrower topic: Austin’s career shows how a distinctive character can reshape the appeal of wrestling.

• Blue DemonNarrower topic: Blue Demon’s career belongs to this broader form, though its Mexican style has distinctive conventions.

• Bruno SammartinoNarrower topic: Sammartino’s championship career took place within this form of sports entertainment.

• Dwayne JohnsonNarrower topic: Johnson’s original fame came from performing within this broader entertainment form.

• Extreme Championship WrestlingNarrower topic: ECW used wrestling's blend of performance and competition as the base for its distinctive presentation.

• Giant BabaNarrower topic: Baba’s ring career and promotional work operated within this performance form.

• Gorgeous GeorgeNarrower topic: His career belongs to the broader form that blends athletic performance with scripted spectacle.

• John CenaNarrower topic: Cena built his fame through wrestling matches and long-running storylines.

• Mildred BurkeNarrower topic: Burke’s career unfolded within its combination of athletic contests and planned entertainment.

• Randy SavageNarrower topic: Savage’s career used its matches and narratives to make the Macho Man persona compelling.

• Stu HartNarrower topic: Hart’s career unfolded within this performance-based form of wrestling.

• Chris BenoitNarrower topic: Benoit’s career unfolded within this performance tradition.

• George HackenschmidtNarrower topic: Hackenschmidt competed during the sport’s transition from catch contests toward modern promotion.

• Jim RossNarrower topic: Ross’s commentary and executive work have taken place within this form of entertainment.

• Kurt AngleNarrower topic: Angle adapted his legitimate wrestling skill to this performance-based sport entertainment.

• WrestleMania 42Narrower topic: It is the performance form underlying WrestleMania 42.