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Wrestling fans cannot simply talk about wrestling dvd or wrestling videos without citing or talking about the WWE library because the largest collection of professional wrestling videos and copyrights in the world currently belongs to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) video library. According to the data on Wikipedia, the library currently has about over 95, 000 hours of content with increasing hours every week coming from monthly pay-pay-views, house shows, RAW show, Smackdown Shows, ECW shows, and so on. Through Vince Mchahon’s (owner and Chairman of the company) brilliant strategy and marketing skills, he eventually bought out most of the competition, making his WWE the biggest global wrestling federation/ company in the world.
The WWE DVD video collection currently consist of all its own federation tapes starting from Capitol Wrestling Corporation in the 1950s to the present WWE. It also has the rights to any WWE produced ventures such as cartoon series featuring Hulk Hogan, the XFL, and all the currently produced WWE Films.
What makes the WWE DVD library the largest in the world is its ability to buy out and purchased libraries of now defunct wrestling organizations through out the years. It currently includes libraries from American Wrestling Association, Georgia Championship Wrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling, Ohio Valley Wrestling, Smoky Mountain Wrestling, Stampede Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, World Class Championship Wrestling, and the Jim Crockett Promotions. Out of all this, perhaps the most impressive collection is that of the Jim Crockett Promotions collection since it was the major and the largest NWA member for its entire existence, which later became WCW in the 1980s until WCW left the NWA in 1993. The major acquisition of the collection happened in 2001 when WWE bought out WCW, which contained a significance amount of NWA matches from the 1970s to the 1990s.