Professional wrestling is a performance art in which actores receive payment for participating in matches where the outcome was predetermined. It is not a sport because the key difference is that professional wrestling's main focus is maintaining its profiting as a business rather than as a form of athletic competition. As opposed to a common sporting event, a professional wrestler's athletic prowess and skills are done more to prevent injury than to inflict it. At the very worst, a wrongly received professional wrestling move has more chance of causing a career ending injury than most mainstream sport