... it for other 'realistic' programming cable has to offer these days. To put that in other words, David Shoemaker, author of The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling, quotes an excerpt from a 1985 issue of Sports Illustrated regarding how popular wrestling was during the 1980's: In the most recent Nielson ratings, four of the nation's 10 top-rated cable ... Monday Night Wars could possibly be the biggest and most important reason for WWE's success because of the attention it gartered from television viewers. Every week WCW would be in direct competition with WWE fo...

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