Knowra Wrestling promoter Wrestling promoter A wrestling promoter organizes professional wrestling events, contracts performers, and markets shows. Promoters may also shape storylines, control access to venues, and manage the business around a wrestling promotion.
Professional wrestling promotion : An organization that produces professional wrestling events and develops performers, storylines, and audiences. The promotion is the business structure a promoter organizes and represents.
Vince McMahon : An American wrestling executive who led the expansion of World Wrestling Federation into a national entertainment company. His national strategy challenged the regional system many promoters depended on.
Professional wrestling carnival circuit : A network of traveling wrestling shows associated with carnivals and fairgrounds in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Traveling attractions supplied an early model for arranging wrestlers, venues, and paying crowds.
Professional wrestling house show : A live wrestling event staged for an in-person audience, usually outside a promotion's main televised program. House shows let promoters tour markets and earn revenue beyond televised events.
Professional wrestling booker : A person who plans wrestling matches, storylines, and finishes for a promotion. Booking overlaps with promotion, but focuses on creative direction rather than organizing the whole business.
Booking (professional wrestling) : The planning of matches, storylines, and outcomes in professional wrestling. A promoter may book the card that gives an event its dramatic shape.
Verne Gagne : An American wrestler and promoter who owned and led the Minneapolis-based American Wrestling Association. His promotion illustrates the regional business model and its eventual pressure from national expansion.
Territorial system (professional wrestling) : A network of regional wrestling promotions that coordinated talent, boundaries, and championship recognition. Territorial promoters organized local markets before national television changed the business.
Professional wrestling pay-per-view : A broadcast model in which viewers pay separately to watch a particular wrestling event. Pay-per-view gave promoters a direct way to monetize major cards.
Professional wrestling manager : A performer who represents and accompanies wrestlers as an on-screen character. The title can sound managerial, but this role is usually part of the wrestling performance.
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