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And the education line is unfortunately necessary.

WWE have turned themselves into stewards of wrestling history and they have twisted that narrative to make Capitol/WWWF more important than what they were - a successful, but not THE most successful territory. In general their narrative is one that makes WWF the heroes and the center of the universe and leaves just so much out. There were other promotions, many of them more popular and featuring better wrestling.

Hogan captured the 80s Zeitgeist well and was able to legitimately be turned into a national icon but let's also address the monkey in the room here - what drove WWF to be a national promotion was savvy media strategy and a desire to go National not anything that was happening in the ring, though Hogan certainly helped things along. He was bringing easily accessed higher production quality TV wrestling to an audience that already knew and loved wrestling.

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