Would You Watch British Wrestling

The word you're looking for is choreographed. Wrestling is a form of entertainment, an energetic soap opera and has been for over a century.

It's strange how many peoples reaction when you mention pro wrestling is "it's all fake", like it's a bad thing or like they're announcing some big secret. . I guess they'll do the same if you mention any type of acting. (I saw a ocal school play the other day, it was all fake, that guy wasn't Jesus Christ at all!)

As for the chairs, they are real, not cardboard. A folded flat pack metal chair striking the upper back at most stings, and a head shot is protected by quickly putting your hanRAB up.
 
The channel is called Adrenalize TV and will have modern british wrestling as well as other sports that make your heart pump faster. I don't know what date it starts and the channel number sorry.

It's using the wrestling library that RQW created and have built up from his own now defunct promotion as well as the other ones they had access too for his old RQW TV series. The likes of SAS and I think maybe IPW (but I may be wrong in that one)
 
I couldn't watch it if was like it was thirty something years ago,but I'm sure it has moved on and would certainly give it a look.There are some excellent British wrestlers on TNA and there is obviously a big fanbase here,so there is potential.I seriously doubt that any free to air channel would show it though,it would more likely on one of the Sky sports channels,none of which I'd pay a penny for.

I hated wrestling when I realised it was 'fake',but now I really appreciate it for the exciting theatre that it is.When it's done right,it can be quite a breathtaking spectacle.

If anyone is overly critical of the pantomime like characters and choreographed moves,you should spend a couple of hours watching 'REAL' wrestling,like Greco-Roman style.Two guys roll around for a few minutes,then one guy mounts the other guy from the back like a dog on heat.If you could even stay awake through one bout of that crap,you'd be doing pretty well.....:yawn:
 
British wrestling was only popular in the days before we had access to US wrestling. Nowadays, the poor production values and poor scripting would be laughable.
 
That it does.

I've read on here people slating On The Buses, Love Thy Neighbour etc from the same era and whilst in the same time
praise The Old Grey Whistle Test for example, again from the same era.

Wrestling is one of those things that is always going to divide people, and 30 year old wrestling is going to divide people even further. I was really just trying to say that modern Brit wrestling is nothing like it#s predecessor (is that spelt right, hell, where's Carol Vorderman when you need her!), not everyone is going to like it, which is fine, but the days of the promoters brother main eventing and waddling around the arena are gone.

To go back to my last line there, I detest Big Daddy, because what I just said is what people remember, but Dale Martin / Joint Promotions / All Star was so much more than that.

Sadly Brian Crabtree, brother of Shirley, was a friend of my granddad. Nice bloke, needed a kick up the backside when it came to promoting.
 
^This, the only thing that puts me off being a casual watcher of WWE (apart from the whole fake thing) is that every show is littered with overly long monologues - I couldnt care less about elaborate storylines.
 
Good scripting can shine through no matter what the production values are, look at early ECW for example, or some of the Brit promotions on TWC, made on a shoe string, gripping stuff.

The inverse is also true, despite how much money they have, look at some of the crap WWE and TNA spout these days.
 
still just school gym independents and will never be anyhting more

dont ge tme wrong,i dont mind the odd roh match...but a whole card? BORING

pro wrestling is not a sport and sohuld not be portrayed as one
 
I agree that good scripting can shine through even low production values, and this was a major reason why people loved ECW in the early days. But I don't think British wrestling in the past has had good scripting, though I don't really know what things are like now, I admit.
 
Who says? That's like saying a movie has to be a set genre or a song has to be a certain style.Wrestling is entertainment and can be styled in whatever way the person in control decides.
Ofcourse,taking wrestling back to the original original golden age will only give a small profit cult following now the inner workings are so widely known.

Still,it could be argued the soap opera style of wrestling made famous by the WWF and moved forward by WCW/ECW is wearing thin with the general public,probably one reason the WWE have gone PG again.
 
Rey Mysterio lost his mask in WCW and the pusist Mexicans were pretty upset about that. Recently Alberto Del Rio had been a masked wrestler and WWE got him to remove it.
ADR wasn't happy, causing some dispute in the locker room.
 
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