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| | ipedia.com: Professional wrestling Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Any pretence to be a sporting competition was dropped in the late 1990s, when Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation began describing its events as "sports entertainment," coincident with a formal change of moniker to World Wrestling Entertainment. |
 | | Currently, the only major wrestling organisations left in North America are World Wrestling Entertainment, and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), and its member federation NWA:TNA. |
 | | However, outside North America, there are others federations in Japan and Mexico, where masked wrestlers are particularly popular. |
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