The World Wrestling Federation coined the term "sports entertainment" during the 1980s as a description for their style of professional wrestling, although precursors date back to February 1935, when Toronto Star sports editor Lou Marsh
described professional wrestling as "sportive entertainment". In 1989
WWF used the phrase in a case it made to the New Jersey Senate for
classifying professional wrestling as "sports entertainment" and thus
not subject to regulation like a directly competitive sport.
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