Over time, violence has become a form of entertainment. Over time we as people have evolved and the form of entertainment has too. Television has become one of the most popular forms of entertainment. When you add a little violence to television there is always an audience that will watch. To keep this audience attentive you have to add plots and characters. The male wrestling soap opera is born. Wrestling is a form of entertainment and sports mixed together to achieve sports entertainment. Just like any other form of entertainment, there needs to be a cast and a story. The wrestlers are in the cast and suffer violent bumps and bruises. The stories they tell represent the fun side of professional wrestling. In the world of wrestling everything is legal. The more violent it is, the more the crowd explodes. Slamming a man onto the mat is not a great reaction. Put that man who launched a stronger reaction at the table. Through that man from the top of a 20 foot cage the crowd goes crazy. The more violent the fans, the more they love it. Violence, vulgarity, gratuitousness and sex sell in our civilization. Professional wrestling capitalized on all of those in its heyday. Those larger than life figures were characters that audiences looked up to and wanted to be. They were told to eat vitamins and say their prayers. They saw these professionals jump from ladders onto tables and tried to emulate what they saw. This same industry had an audience screaming “suck it.” This is the industry with so much influence. This same audience had moments where they tried wrestling maneuvers and killed their "opponent", more often than not the opponents were family or friends. In this study viewers watching professional wrestling are different… middle of paper… football. It's one of the most violent sports around. The reason people watch it is because they love seeing violence caused to another human being. It gives viewers the feeling of being involved in violence but without any of the side effects of being attacked. Television is not always kind to violent programs. Professional wrestling isn't the most academic program, far from it. It won't win awards from parents. A study "The gritty nature of televised professional wrestling: Is violence a cause for concern?" provided more insight into the nature of televised professional wrestling. The study took a sample of their programs. “This was a procedure to establish a very precise time code to be used to unify the acts to be coded in this study. Given the uncommon frequency and speed with which violent acts begin and end in television wrestling..." (Tamborini, 2005)