Posted by Trent Van Drisse
on 10/28/2009, 6:31 pm, in reply to "Re: USWO STANDING ROOM ONLY"
Well, the real problem is nowadays only the WWE is seen as the "big time", everything else is generally perceived by the general public as being the local yokel small timers wannabes, if they even know about it at all, which most probably don't. But the number of fans in any town that are going to give Independent wrestling a chance is fairly small.
Hey, it sounds like you did a lot of hard work promoting this "debut", and I'm not knocking you for that at all. You worked a lot harder at promoting than Tony Falk does, pretty much all he does far as promoting goes far as I can tell is he does a hotline, and puts out posters on rare occasions, that's it, and there-in lies the problem with the whole mentality of it. Sure, these promoters would love to have good 'ol 'rasslin fans show up, but the fact of the matter is they rely on the "friends and family" showing up to even have a crowd. To me, that's not promoting, or really even being a business, I see it more akin to someone kinda "raping", or using the business for hopefully a quick buck. I mean really someone making their debut in pro wrestling shouldn't be a big deal per say, unless is was some big celebrity or something. I mean back in the day, if someone was making a debut the fans wouldn't even be told about it in many cases, yes, now some guys are given a push right out of the gate, but historically most aren't, need to start slow, build up, learn the craft for many years, "pay dues", which I hate that term actually, but what I'm saying is not start out as the focal point of a show. To me the whole thing shows a lack of understanding of the wrestling business in general, but this kind of stuff I don't call the wrestling business, just Tony trying to make a quick buck, and someone getting to get in the ring and do their thing. At least it sounds like this guy trained for quite awhile, and I heard it did go well for a debut, and hey if a few of those 80 become regulars, then that's a great thing, but historically with these "debuts", that hasn't been the case. That's why I said before, it's a fleeting type of a thing for a quick buck, not for long term revenue or crowds. This isn't the first debut that drew a big crowd, but none have sustained the crowd, those folks didn't become regulars, they were there to see one person, often the place cleared out after their buddy or family member performed. If it's different this time, then major kudos to you, but I wouldn't be super optimistic about that, but it does sound like in some ways your intentions are good, but you are promoting for someone you know, so the family and friends deal is in full effect here. Trent
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