Abstract: Through literature data method and logical analysis, this paper explores the influence of electronic sport on modern sports. The research shows that electronic sport inherits modern sport kernel and gestalt, widens the space of modern sports, but it leads to the problems, such as body marginalization and the reduction of sports material culture. The development of electronic sport conveys the implicit change on the part of modern sports from competition to commercialization and strengthens the instrumental rationality of humans in sports. Electronic sport will appear as alternative sport or countercultural phenomenon for a long time in the future, but with the development of economy, society, high popularization of the network, it will become an important member of the mainstream sports or arrogate to become hegemonic sport.

Key words: electronic sport, modern sports, inherit, arrogate, influence