out of everything that happened in that show im mostly looking forward to best friends vs. triangle and wondering who kris statlander will get to showdown against...
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The first of IWTV's Showcase shows was a nice little hodgepodge of matches from different promotions. Nothing exciting, but pretty much what you'd expect.
Lee Moriarty vs Edith Surreal was a good match with a clever finish, and YUTA continues to be a total dick.
Watching NXT, I'm immediately into this Dexter Lumis character. Not at all surprised he was the crazy guy from TNA. Didn't he throw someone in front of a train or something there?
The first of IWTV's Showcase shows was a nice little hodgepodge of matches from different promotions. Nothing exciting, but pretty much what you'd expect.
Lee Moriarty vs Edith Surreal was a good match with a clever finish, and YUTA continues to be a total dick.
Damn pandemic. I want to be in tampa watching wrestling in a brewery.
The first of IWTV's Showcase shows was a nice little hodgepodge of matches from different promotions. Nothing exciting, but pretty much what you'd expect.
Lee Moriarty vs Edith Surreal was a good match with a clever finish, and YUTA continues to be a total dick.
Damn pandemic. I want to be in tampa watching wrestling in a brewery.
Still salty that my planned wrestling/beer vacation was cancelled last year.
The first of IWTV's Showcase shows was a nice little hodgepodge of matches from different promotions. Nothing exciting, but pretty much what you'd expect.
Lee Moriarty vs Edith Surreal was a good match with a clever finish, and YUTA continues to be a total dick.
Damn pandemic. I want to be in tampa watching wrestling in a brewery.
There does seem to have been a "oh my God, nobody's buying tickets to these shows" realization that hit the indie space over the last week or so. So much of the international talent that were draws for these shows can't make it, which is exposing a lot of the talent drain that's hit the independent space of the last couple of years with AEW and WWE snapping so many people up. And there's what's probably the bigger reason: WrestleMania is still the big mover of people to the area that weekend. With Mania only selling 25k tickets, and those tickets only going on sale 3 weeks before the show, you aren't getting that critical mass of die-hard wrestling fans coming in from out-of-state to attend these shows.
The lack of international talent is absolutely an issue. I say that fully admitting that the two biggest reasons I was planning to go in 2020 were for the FREEDOMS and Tokyo Joshi Pro shows.
Regarding the companies and shows themselves, I don't know if it's so much of a talent drain, rather than an over-saturation of these same wrestlers and companies? Because there is lesser/virtually unknown talent out there in the US indie scene. That's obvious because we see AEW plucking folks who are super regional wrestlers that you'd only know if you happen to watch the handful of promotions they work across three states.
And yeah, the pandemic has put a ton of stress on how they can run shows and who they can book, but the big-name indie companies (GCW in particular) have just felt stagnant and repetitive the past year. Like, the 2020 Collective only happened six months ago. And then they did a scaled down version with the same concept/produce shows AGAIN in January with Fight Forever. Hell, tonight's Bloodsport will be the fourth one in six months. Very little of it feels special or exciting right now.
GCW had numerous reasons beyond just the pandemic for why it feels stagnant, though that’s obviously a major reason. Gage’s major injury hurt them a lot and it’s a miracle he’s back even for this
It probably did not help that the pandemic caused a lot of smaller shows to not run, which meant that there were fewer opportunities for newer names to filter up the ladder. The bigger indies that were running seem to be sticking to talent that they know and were less likely to try new things out. And of course we haven't had a PWG show in over a year, and those tend to be the shows where the biggest "indie" names show up on to become nationally known.
Basically there probably is a talent drain, but an understandable one that should correct itself in a year as new talent gets discovered.
The first of IWTV's Showcase shows was a nice little hodgepodge of matches from different promotions. Nothing exciting, but pretty much what you'd expect.
Lee Moriarty vs Edith Surreal was a good match with a clever finish, and YUTA continues to be a total dick.
Damn pandemic. I want to be in tampa watching wrestling in a brewery.
There does seem to have been a "oh my God, nobody's buying tickets to these shows" realization that hit the indie space over the last week or so. So much of the international talent that were draws for these shows can't make it, which is exposing a lot of the talent drain that's hit the independent space of the last couple of years with AEW and WWE snapping so many people up. And there's what's probably the bigger reason: WrestleMania is still the big mover of people to the area that weekend. With Mania only selling 25k tickets, and those tickets only going on sale 3 weeks before the show, you aren't getting that critical mass of die-hard wrestling fans coming in from out-of-state to attend these shows.
The bigger problem for the indie shows is they're all too similar. You have top two matches for each show that are good draws, but its all the same midcard shaken up a bit.
And not being able to split the cost on overseas talent is a huge factor as well.
There are probably only 5 big draws on the indies right now with RSP, AJ Gray, Lee Motiarty, Effy, ACH, and maybe Allie Kat
I think the top indie guys also aren't getting the Japan trips and matches with more experienced guys they need to really polish up their wrestling style and help the younger indie guys.
GCW had numerous reasons beyond just the pandemic for why it feels stagnant, though that’s obviously a major reason. Gage’s major injury hurt them a lot and it’s a miracle he’s back even for this
Yeah, Nick's climb back to the title after Run Rickey Run was so easy to see but got totally derailed. At the same time, the 44OH vs GCW feud is the only story they've had running which doesn't help.
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This has been a very good episode.
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I've caught a couple UGWA streams and they're pretty cool as well. They have a wrestling skeleton which is always a positive.
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Lee Moriarty vs Edith Surreal was a good match with a clever finish, and YUTA continues to be a total dick.
That is the least-surprising surprising thing I've read in a while.
Damn pandemic. I want to be in tampa watching wrestling in a brewery.
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Still salty that my planned wrestling/beer vacation was cancelled last year.
There does seem to have been a "oh my God, nobody's buying tickets to these shows" realization that hit the indie space over the last week or so. So much of the international talent that were draws for these shows can't make it, which is exposing a lot of the talent drain that's hit the independent space of the last couple of years with AEW and WWE snapping so many people up. And there's what's probably the bigger reason: WrestleMania is still the big mover of people to the area that weekend. With Mania only selling 25k tickets, and those tickets only going on sale 3 weeks before the show, you aren't getting that critical mass of die-hard wrestling fans coming in from out-of-state to attend these shows.
Regarding the companies and shows themselves, I don't know if it's so much of a talent drain, rather than an over-saturation of these same wrestlers and companies? Because there is lesser/virtually unknown talent out there in the US indie scene. That's obvious because we see AEW plucking folks who are super regional wrestlers that you'd only know if you happen to watch the handful of promotions they work across three states.
And yeah, the pandemic has put a ton of stress on how they can run shows and who they can book, but the big-name indie companies (GCW in particular) have just felt stagnant and repetitive the past year. Like, the 2020 Collective only happened six months ago. And then they did a scaled down version with the same concept/produce shows AGAIN in January with Fight Forever. Hell, tonight's Bloodsport will be the fourth one in six months. Very little of it feels special or exciting right now.
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Basically there probably is a talent drain, but an understandable one that should correct itself in a year as new talent gets discovered.
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The bigger problem for the indie shows is they're all too similar. You have top two matches for each show that are good draws, but its all the same midcard shaken up a bit.
And not being able to split the cost on overseas talent is a huge factor as well.
There are probably only 5 big draws on the indies right now with RSP, AJ Gray, Lee Motiarty, Effy, ACH, and maybe Allie Kat
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Yeah, Nick's climb back to the title after Run Rickey Run was so easy to see but got totally derailed. At the same time, the 44OH vs GCW feud is the only story they've had running which doesn't help.
I don't think they have any overhead when they're not actively running shows and promoters don't make a living off it.
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I guess I never thought about it that way, yeah, that makes sense.