Personally I lay the blame for the attention given to the FWA squarely at the door of Finlay Martin, longtime editior of PowerSlam magazine.

As far as I can make out, Fin Martin seems to *hate* everything about old-school British wrestling. He's always constantly slagged it off in his magazine. So when a promotion comes along that presents itself as a rejection of traditional British wrestling culture, then Fin gets behind it to the point of kayfabing for the "new school" side of the FWA's "new vs old" storyline.

Meanwhile, Fin takes great care not to give any coverage to All-Star, TWA and Premier, even tho all of these three are far bigger and busier promotions than the FWA. Except maybe the occasional letter slagging off old school promotions, such as the very tasteful one a year or two back that made sarcastic remarks about Alan Kilby's deafness (charming!)

Notice how PowerSlam waxes lyrical about the likes of Alex Shane, Scott Parker etc, but never gives so much as a whisper of attention to James Mason - success story with Michinoku Pro tho he is. Mason gets censored out of PowerSlam. Too tarred with the old-school brush for Fin.

In America, Robbie Brookside is something of an underground legend. Low Ki is a BIG fan of Robbie's match with Johnny Saint from 1988 on ITV. But for years Fin was careful to give Brookside as little coverage as possible. This issue, for the first time ever they printed a photo of Brookside, but were careful to show one of him on the receiving end, busy selling Doug Williams's move.

Fin goes to ridiculous lengths to indoctrinate his readers about how "boring" technical wrestling supposedly is - he even slags off the great Bob Backlund! Just a couple of months back, he got one of his columnists, Patty There to suggest that William Regal should stop using his "antiquated" British _style_ of wrestling if he wants to get on in the WWE. Well, Fin and Patty, for your information, Regal was hired by the WWE precisely BECAUSE he wrestles in that _style_. The American wrestling busness actually massively respects the British wrestling _style_ - it's proper wrestling!

PowerSlam is basically in the business of Telling People What To Think. (Just like the NME does with music) So if all the idiots who swallow the lies and distortions printed in PowerSlam read about FWA supposedly being the hot thing in the UK, well naturally they fall for it hook, line and sinker.

oh, PowerSlam are awful... but could a magazine that tout TLC matches as MOTYC be good?

The FWA is no where near the best promotion. Alex Shane is not the best wrestler & I am certainly not the best writer.

But for goodness sake i do watch British wrestling, i do read these pathetic wrestling magazines that are published in our great country. And for one i must state what a bunch of pathetic bull crap they spread about certain wrestlers and promotion being number 1.

Allstars are number 1 for drawing a crowd and Brian Dixon is number 1 promoter. TWA, Hammerlock, BRAWL all offer a good product. GBH, K-Star, WAW, Premier Promotions are far more better and more functional on a regular basis than the FWA yet get very little credit.

Its time to tell the FWA that they suck and are nothing and will always be sodding nothing.