Posted by Trent Van Drisse
on 10/3/2009, 7:47 am, in reply to "What is wrong with Nashville Wrestling in General?"
Nashville was once a hotbed for wrestling and was sending people to the WWE, WCW, certainly TNA, and other places but it seems that wrestling in Nashville isn't what it used to be.
Well, thanks for typing all that, interesting stuff, I don't have time to type a whole lot right now, but I don't agree with you here, when was Nashville ever a "hotbed" for pro wrestling? And I mean ever in history. Let's just talk about more recent history for now though, after the USWA shut down, and they weren't drawing well in Nashville as they wound down, abd Prentice ran against the USWA, then kinda sorta had the town to himself, it wasn't any kind of a "hotbed". Now Bert did have a good run around '98-99 when Music City first started, and a lot of those guys went on to do something in the wrestling business, and a ways after that he has the WCW developmental deal, but that wasn't a boom period for Nashville to be honest. Now when TNA started there were tons of guys working around here trying to get jobs with TNA, but attendance in general wasn't good, heck TNA papered like crazy, which some will tell you to this day killed Nashville. It didn't help, but shows weren't drawing around here before TNA came around, or after, so I don't agree with that theory. But it's not good to paper weekly of course. Plus Nashville has just seen so much, it's hard to get truly excited about anything, cuz of all that's been seen. The WWE doesn't even draw particularly well in Nashville. I don't think they've had even close to a sell out here in recent memory.
Of course a problem is the several promoters who run weekly here now, and cuz the run weekly they get kinda lazy about it, and just get content more or less with whoever shows up. plus they do more real low budget shows. But that's not exclusive to Nashville, seems like that's common all over when people run the same place with much of the same talent in front of the same crowd every week. Plus of course the "friends and family" mentality. Using guys, good or not, even fully trained or not, simply because they'll bring friends and family to watch them. That's real common around here.
I mean SAW is supposedly trying to get a major TV deal, with Jerry Jarrett guiding the way, now whether that's actually going to happen or not is certainly speculative, and SAW hasn't looked like any kind of a hot group lately, but they are on primetime TV Saturdays nights on CW in Nashville, and running the Fairgrounds next Sat, but hasn't felt like any major promotion by them on that show either.
All in all I guess I'd say Nashville does ebb and flow some, but even at its lowest and highest, at its core, it's still about the same. It is what it is. Trent
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