World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc

Prior to Titan Sports (1952-1980)

Main article: Capitol Wrestling Corporation

WWE's origins can be traced back as far as 1952 when Roderick James "Jess" McMahon and Toots Mondt created the Capitol Wrestling Corporation Ltd. (CWC),[15][16] which joined the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in 1953.[17] McMahon, who was a successful boxing promoter, began working with Tex Rickard in 1926. With the help of Rickard, he began promoting boxing and wrestling at the third Madison Square Garden.[18]

In November 1954, McMahon died and Ray Fabiani, one of Mondt's associates, brought in McMahon's son Vincent James.[19] The younger McMahon and Mondt were very successful and soon controlled approximately 70% of the NWA's booking, largely due to their dominance in the heavily populated Northeastern United States. In 1963, McMahon and Mondt had a dispute with the NWA over "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers being booked to hold the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.[20] Both men left the company in protest and formed the WWWF in the process.[citation needed] Mondt left Capitol in the late 1960s and although the WWWF had withdrawn from the NWA, Vince McMahon, Sr. quietly re-joined in 1971.

Capitol renamed the World Wide Wrestling Federation to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1979.[21]