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I both agree and disagree. I think most modern wrestling products have adapted some form of sports entertainment. It doesn’t mean it has to go full blown with it like WWE has, but I think if you look at any wrestling product prior to say 1986 and almost any today you can see how the product has evolved.The funny thing is people associate great storylines and promos with sports entertainment and I think that's completely inaccurate. Many of the great storylines have come from ECW, ROH, Japanese promotions and other places branded as "real wrestling" or "alternative" or whatever you wanna apply. To me the shit that makes something sports entertainment is the nature of the segments, use of skits, celebrities, non-wrestlers, etc. or jusy having a product that revolves around angles where the matches are basically just tools to advance a story.
ECW, ROH etc I would argue all have elements of sports entertainment. I would even say many elements of current wwe sports entertainment evolved by replicating products like ECW etc.