Over the years, various contact sports have become much more aggressive as such games incorporate the need to inflict bodily harm to the players. Thus, it is now common to associate violence with sports. Some common sports that can be associated with the tag ‘sports and violence’ are wrestling, rugby, boxing, soccer, etc.
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In recent years sports violence has become to be seen as a social problem. Commissions have been appointed in Canada and England to investigate violence among hockey players and soccer fans. Numerous examples of violence in professional sports exist today, as counties like the United States, Canada, Greece, Italy and Germany, report court cases have been heard which concern the victims of violence perpetrators. Newspapers, magazines and television programs portray bloodied athletes and riotous fans at hockey, boxing, football, soccer, baseball, and basketball games with what appears to be increasing regularity.
Contrary to popular belief, there appears to be growing dissatisfaction with sports violence. Changes in sports rules, developments in the design of equipment, and even the physical characteristics of modern sports arenas evolved in an effort to reduce violence or its consequences. But still, among athletic management teams, government officials, fans and athletes themselves, there is an ambivalence attitude towards sports violence. The ambivalence takes the form of justifying the existence of violence in sports, but not taking personal responsibility for it. Coaches and managers tend to blame fans, saying that violence is what attracts people into stadiums, as the risk entailed makes the game more "interesting". Athletes frequently admit that they are opposed to violence, but it is expected of them by coaches. Fans justify it by attributing aggressiveness to athletes and to situational aspects of the game. Spectators view violence as an inherent part of some sports as one cannot play games like hockey or football, without accepting the necessity of violent action.
World wrestling entertainment
World wrestling entertainment is a publicly traded, privately controlled integrated media and sports entertainment company that deals primarily in professional wrestling. WWE's business focus is on professional wrestling, a simulated sport that consists of wrestling combined with acting and theatre. This is a prominent example of sports and violence because professional wrestling involves the use of violence in every aspect of the show. Wrestling has become a worldwide entertainment sport, with its growing influence in the world today, we worry whether this combination of sports and violence will cause negative impacts in our society.
The only problem is that there are some fans that don't know how to separate the action on the TV screen from their everyday lives. They become more violent in nature due to the influence of wrestling and tend to have the tendency of randomly picking up fights as they deemed themselves as having the ability to do so. After watching wrestling, many people believe that they have the ability to do many stuff like what the wrestlers does. For e.g. being buried alive. In reality, none of us would be able to survive such situations unless a miracle happens, it gives people a fake impression that they can. Also, in wrestling many smaller-sized stars are able to defeat and even stand up to bigger-sized stars so many people think that they have such a ability to do so and only find themselves landing up in the hospital. Apart from all of these, fans believe that violence is the only way to solve problems, you can fight all you want in wrestling as this is part of entertainment but when you apply it in real life, all you face are law suits and medical bills.
Violence in wrestling is also a key factor in WWE’s success. People tend to be attracted to wrestling as it gives them the hallucination that violence can be applied anywhere to solve problems. There are many times in the real world where some frustrations just cannot be vented so many people turn to as a channel for their frustrations. They enjoy seeing people getting beaten up as a way to help relieve their stress. This may sound sick but its the exact truth. Wrestling has become so popular that it is one of the highest rated television shows in America.
Over commercialization of sports
The confluence of the proliferation of global media networks, influx of advertising and sponsorship money and a growing global audience has given modern sports and sporting events incredible economic growth, either through hosting sports events, advertising revenue or increased consumer spending on sport.
EG: The past two decades has seen a relentless rise in the amount of money flowing into the game from television, bigger crowds, sponsorship and a much more professional approach to merchandising. World wrestling entertainment
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