Should a young rookie concentrate on entertaining the fans with spot fests or should a young rookie say "to hell with the fans" and concentrate on physchology, build and working the crowd. Do you think this attitude could harm a rookies career? Should he just do as he is told and entertain or should he strive to become a good worker by having his matches tell a story? Evenalthough the story will go over the heads of 99% of the audiance. What do you think? Would it even be possible to tell a story when a rookie goes in with a guy who has no clue what story telling in a match is?

Take Allstar for example. I wonder if Brian Dixon would be more happy with a wrestler who kept the fans happy by working spots with no meaning or a worker who would have a logical match with good story telling that may not entertain the fans as much as a spot fest would? Its all about money after all and entertainment seems to make the most money.

Mark Sloan on the other hand who runs FWA is obviously an entertainment _base_d promoter. I can't really comment because I've never seen an FWA show but I've heard there isn't a shred of story telling in any of there matches. Its all WWE _style_. So to impress your peers there its all about working spots.

What is the most important thing in this country right now? Entertainment or good quality wrestling? Then again I think that is a stupid question since most fans and workers dont know what good quality wrestling is because all they have seen is WWE. It all seems to be about making money which is fair enough however the question is should a rookie do his best to entertain or become a good worker? Is that even possible when most other rookies and wrestlers just want to work spots?

Story telling. Of course there's a place for 'spots' - if they are well worked. Not the sort you can see coming about five minutes before they happen (like a table getting set-up at ringside and remaining there for a few minutes - you know it's a matter of time before someone goes through it). Entertain by all means - it's what fans expect - but adding a 'story' to the match is surely going to be what makes you stand out from the rest.

I think you know my views on this already, Rob

FWA is spot fest and a load of other pathetic excuses for a wrestling show.

I encourage anyone that hasnt watched the FWA to do so, and then pass judgemnt, and 8/10 will agree with my by saying it was the pits.

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IMHO for what it's worth:

I think a young rookie should concentrate on developing enough technical skill to improvise a decent match. Then, later on perhaps, they can learn to bolt on other things such as spots, psychology etc.

The way it used to be done was that guys would wrestle each other in clean matches in order to build up their reputations as great master scientific wrestlers and so get themselves over with the crowd. Then when the time was right, they'd do some babyface vs.heel matches.

It can be difficult to tell what Brian Dixon's really into - he does have a tendency to shift with the wind. If he thinks he can do well taking the high road, then he'll go upmarket with lots of good technical action in the best traditions of British wrestling - see All-Star's "Golden Era" from the mid '80s to circa '94. If he's feeling a bit more desperate then he starts on the gimmicks, the Power Rangers cash in, the tribute guys and the silly "sponsored wrestler" deals (remember Robbie Brookside's stint circa '85 as "Ben Truman"?).

Dixon seems to have a fairly mercenary attitude to product - as long as it works well, it's allowed. It's a pity tho. A bit more imaginative businessmanship on his part and All-Star could have built up further on their late '80s triumphs and possibly become one of the most powerful promotions on the planet in the 90s - perhaps even competeing against the WWF and WCW on American soil.

I just read an allstar show report from a couple of days back. They used Spiderman. Its all about making money and whatever sells gets used hence the spiderman gimick. Spots and high flying sells to the fans in this country thats why guys like Johhny Storm and Jody Fliesh are so over. Jody Fleish is getting to the US and Japan so is working spots a good game plan to go places? It appears to be.