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| Apathy In The UK |
FSM Staff |
Why in-fighting and hatred is tearing the British wrestling scene apart...
Last October, FSM came up with a plan. After months of discussing in the office the state of British wrestling, we decided to do something about it and after much planning, we were prepped to do a whopping three-part feature that would, without question, be the biggest magazine-based piece ever produced on professional wrestling in the UK. We wanted to look first at the history of British wrestling, where wrestling is at in the here and now, and finally uncover what’s stopping the scene at the moment from reaching its full potential and returning to the heady heights of the Seventies and Eighties. And using our extensive address book, we even planned to contact all the key players in the British industry to ask a range of questions to gauge where wrestling is at, where it’s going and how we as a wrestling community can help it to progress in the coming years. What a load of bollocks that turned out to be…
Back in November, we sent a massive email out to our UK wrestling contacts – a list that includes every major promoter, key players at all the top companies and also many of the biggest and best wrestlers on our shores. You can find a list of people who were actually smart enough to take an interest in their own industry in the panel elsewhere in this feature but to cut a long story short, we explained how passionate we are about the sport, how much we wanted to help the industry and how important it was that people get involved and help support the UK scene. After an initial flurry of excellent replies from the likes of Nick Aldis, Jonny Storm, Greg Lambert and El Ligero, things totally dried up and no amount of cajoling yielded a response. Despite our best efforts, these people clearly had no interest in working with us to support the industry. Apathy isn’t the word…
Having been involved with the UK scene for the past four years, what we’d expected to find as a result of our extensive investigation was twofold. Firstly, we expected the problem to be one of people not working together and secondly, we suspected that, sadly, people wanted everything handed to them on a silver platter. In reality, we got what we expected and then some. During the course of our investigation, for instance, FSM was involved in a totally separate mass mailout related to our UK news section which, again, intended to bring people together within the UK industry and to present a united front. The response from one major promoter, who we’re not going to name here? Two words: “Fuck off”.
For the rest of this feature, check out issue 50 of FSM - available at WH Smith and all good retailers. (For US readers we are now carried at Borders and Barnes & Noble, so check for local availability or click here to subscribe.)
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