Professional wrestling, or pro wrestling, is the performance, management, and marketing of a form of entertainment that is based on simulated elements of catch wrestling, mock combat and theatre. Modern professional wrestling usually features striking and grappling techniques, which are modelled after diverse sets of global wrestling and pugilistic styles.
Modern professional wrestling is commonly associated within a company (often referred to as a fed or promotion), where the participants create an entertaining show simulating a dueling match. The level of realism may vary from sports entertainment (the American World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) promotion) to stiff style (the Japanese strong style as exemplified by Antonio Inoki) to spotfests. In Mexico the dominant style is the stylized, theatrical Lucha libre.
Professional wrestlers are paid a set wagethis source's reliability may need verification]
As opposed to more mainstream combative sporting events like boxing, a professional wrestler's athletic prowess and skills are utilized more to prevent injury than to inflict it. In many cases, the victim of an attack in a professional wrestling environment is required to do more athletically than the one performing the attack.citation needed] If the wrestler absorbing the attack is less skilled or less athletic, he may injure his partner or even himself.