I can tell you why so many get it wrong, they won't listen to those who have done it for many many year. Before I started promoting I talked to loads of promoters, wrestlers and people who had been in the business for many many years, I remember a couple of 2 hour phone conversations in the early hours of the morning with Scott Conway, who in that short space of time taught me one hell of a lot and for that I am eternally greatful, other guys I have listened to helped me one hell of lot, Spinner McKenzie, Mark Sloan, Alex Shane and Jake Roberts to name a few. I absorbed everything like a sponge and that David is what the 'New' breed of promoters wont do. They won't listen to advice as they know it all already, most have no promoting experience at all, they have no idea how to advertise, what a poster should look like, what the public are wanting. 90% of the time these guys are only interesting in putting themselves over, they have to be in the ring as some evil commissioner, or the boss. Most stink as again no experience in entertainments, talking to a crowd infact they are joe public with a few quid and thats all they are.

This is going to sound horrid, but until someone dies in the ring at one of these shows its only going to get worse. Anyone can promote, hell there was a 14 year old kid that promoted a show in yorkshire earlier in the year. Only when something drastic happens that hopefully the goverment or some agency will set some official guidelines and stop all these fly by night promotions that not only are killing british wrestling as a form of entertainment, they are risking the lives of the wrestlers who wrestle and the fans that sit ringside.

Rant over....