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Originally Posted by Dave Youell
Eli,
Although he can be a bit weird, as a worker he's by far the best guy to have in the crowd as he really gets the fans going.
As for RQW, personally it's not for me, it looks like they have problems promoting there own shows for TV let alone using other promotions matches, they have really good production values and with a bit more guidance on the promotional front they could do alright.
LDN, I'll admit I'm biased towards LDN as I know Bagga and loads of the workers for them (Had a fucking cracking match with Tex Benedict the other night), but I know all the effort that Bagga has put into the shows and that he's re-investing the cash to make the shows look better, sure it's not the best TV show in the world, but the style of the matches is British ala world of sport and that separates it from the other stuff and does get some pretty impressive viewing figures.
1pw, I can't stand, I went to one of the shows they did only to see Tanaka Vs Joe, it ended after 5 minutes. The rest of the card that night was sub par, to me it's not even a UK fed, it's just a US supershow with a few UK workers on it. The TV show was very poorly done and the bullshit with the way gauntly dealt with them going 'bankrupt' was symbolics, yes they are still around and yes they have a fanboy appeal, but it's really like marmite, you either love it or you hate it.
FWA, were basically 1pw, running shows in a similar way, bringing in US guys to get the ticket sales up, when they ran out of money and couldn't bring in any imports, the crowds went down, they didn't produce enough TV and lost the contract they had with TWC, which has only been a good thing for the UK wrestling scene as others now get a chance. Plus as Rob will tell you, Alex Shane isn't a very nice man.
Me, I work for the CSF, to be fair no one outside of the south west really knows us as we are not an internet fed, we do get some very good crowds though for what we are, earlier this year in my home town of Yate I wrestled infront of 620 people. We don't tend to run many angles as we run 5 different venues that are miles away from each other and fans don't tend to travel, we are looking to get a few more venues, we have a good working relationship with LDN as well and a few of the CSF matches have been shown on LDN TV and now a few of our workers are also being used on TV, which is great to see.
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