Sports entertainment

Sports entertainment is a promotional label for professional wrestling that emphasizes athletic spectacle alongside planned storylines and outcomes. It presents wrestling as entertainment rather than a conventional competitive sport.

Professional wrestling: A performance form that stages wrestling matches as live entertainment, often combining athletic feats with planned narratives. Sports entertainment is the promotional framing most closely associated with this form.
World Wrestling Federation: The name used by the American wrestling promotion now known as WWE from 1979 to 2002. The company popularized sports entertainment as a description of its product.
Worked shoot: A performance that blurs the boundary between scripted wrestling and an apparently unscripted confrontation. It shows how wrestling can use ambiguity to heighten dramatic realism.
Combat sport: A competitive sport in which participants fight under rules to determine a winner. Unlike sports entertainment, combat sports present outcomes as competitively determined.
Kayfabe: The portrayal of wrestling events and rivalries as real within the performance, maintained by performers and promoters. It sustains the illusion that scripted rivalries and outcomes are genuine.
Vince McMahon: An American professional wrestling promoter and media executive who led WWE for decades. He made the phrase central to the company's identity and marketing.
Professional wrestling move: A physical maneuver performed in professional wrestling, often designed for both safety and visual impact. Moves supply the visible athletic vocabulary of the spectacle.
Mixed martial arts: A combat sport in which competitors use techniques from multiple martial arts under unified rules. Its unscripted competition provides a clear contrast with planned wrestling outcomes.
Professional wrestling match types: Rules and formats that define how a professional wrestling match is contested and presented. Match formats shape the spectacle while giving storylines distinct stakes.
WWE: An American professional wrestling and entertainment company that produces televised and live events. Its branding and programming made sports entertainment widely recognizable.

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