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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 2, 2017 15:59:36 GMT -5
As in a fairly big company that focuses on southern style rasslin that spans from Kentucky into Georgia/South Carolina.
It seems like if the NWA consolidated their resources and really worked at promoting things they might have the closest shot at it. Also, this could have been an alternative route for TNA to try once they got kicked out of the Impact Zone. Probably wouldn't have worked, but meh.
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Jan 2, 2017 16:10:24 GMT -5
As in a fairly big company that focuses on southern style rasslin that spans from Kentucky into Georgia/South Carolina. It seems like if the NWA consolidated their resources and really worked at promoting things they might have the closest shot at it. Also, this could have been an alternative route for TNA to try once they got kicked out of the Impact Zone. Probably wouldn't have worked, but meh. In my opinion, you pretty much answered your own question...if the NWA wasn't the clusterf*** that it is with promotions coming and going, and the owner living in a state away from the NWA's current home base, it would have the best chance of anyone right now in recapturing that vibe.... |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2017 18:16:00 GMT -5
The answer is yes. The question is if any existing promotion has what it takes (financially, in combination with the right talent) to make it work. It's not the Smoky Mountain territory, but the promotion with enough "going for it" currently in the southeast United States is Wildkat Sports in Louisiana. They just started on local television, and draw pretty good crowds. www.wildkatwrestling.com |
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Jan 2, 2017 18:24:43 GMT -5
Depends what you mean by "works". There's already promotions working those areas that probably have very southern style sensibilities, and maybe a good bunch of them even make a decent little bit of money off of their shows. But none of them really have much upward mobility, and even the NWA name can't push what patchwork mess of promotions they have into something that can really contend with even the upper tier of indies.
It doesn't help that in this day and age, 'big company' kind of relies on a major internet presence and generally the ones that are able to make it work are ones based in or closer to major media markets, and which appeal to the more populous coastal regions. And in that regard, if you take Jim Cornette booking Smokey Mountain of Honor as any indication, a lot of those sensibilities are going to be rejected by those major sources of internet revenue. So if 'fairly big' means trying to get onto the level of those sorts of companies, then they're going to be in for a rough time unless they're willing to take some elements of the style and modernize them in some very major ways. Otherwise, you're looking at the kind of thing that has some potential on a regional level, but probably not much room for growth.
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Post by Ted Sheckler on Jan 2, 2017 19:05:02 GMT -5
Are you talking territory style show schedules where they run 5 shows a week with the occasional big arena show? If so, I don't see that happening with an independent company ever again.
If we're talking an indy which may have a home base in say Columbia, South Carolina and runs Charlotte, Atlanta etc etc for the occasional weekend shows I could see that working although the shows are considerably more expensive in cities and a South Carolina promoter would be better off running a 30,000-40,000 population city rather than packing everything up, making the drive to Atlanta and making a couple hundred bucks.
As for if this would work with an old school southern approach I'm a strong believer in the more realistic approach with realistic characters and stories which is pretty much what southern wrestling is. 10-15 strong wrestlers who all have different characters and can tell stories in the ring would draw huge I think.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2017 19:56:48 GMT -5
Are you talking territory style show schedules where they run 5 shows a week with the occasional big arena show? If so, I don't see that happening with an independent company ever again. Agreed. But going back to the original post in this thread, Smoky Mountain never did the 5 nights a week (or weekly towns) schedule either, like others did in the territory days. By the time SMW was around, they, much like ECW at the time and virtually all indies, mainly ran shows on weekends. |
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Post by lws on Jan 3, 2017 0:23:08 GMT -5
I almost want to argue that anyone who thinks SMW was in any way a "big" indie is looking at the past through rose colored glasses, and that there are dozens of indies around the country with roughly their same scope. Any indie with a local TV show (which, I acknowledge, there aren't very many, but there are a few) is practically at the same level as SMW already. 90% of their shows were filmed in high school gyms.
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Post by J. Hova on Jan 3, 2017 10:06:42 GMT -5
I'm not sure what the criteria would be, but I think one of the biggest obstacles would be that now you are a full generation away from people being immersed in this style and possibly willing to accept it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2017 11:09:05 GMT -5
I almost want to argue that anyone who thinks SMW was in any way a "big" indie is looking at the past through rose colored glasses, and that there are dozens of indies around the country with roughly their same scope. Any indie with a local TV show (which, I acknowledge, there aren't very many, but there are a few) is practically at the same level as SMW already. 90% of their shows were filmed in high school gyms. I agree. I got the SMW show and Memphis up here in Chicago on a fuzzy UHF station. (Didn't make much sense to me, as they never toured in the area.) Maybe the OP is thinking along those lines; a southern-style promotion that has a decent crowd and has a broad reach on tv. Yes, the Internet makes it a lot easier to reach fans abroad. |
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Jan 3, 2017 11:38:29 GMT -5
I almost want to argue that anyone who thinks SMW was in any way a "big" indie is looking at the past through rose colored glasses, and that there are dozens of indies around the country with roughly their same scope. Any indie with a local TV show (which, I acknowledge, there aren't very many, but there are a few) is practically at the same level as SMW already. 90% of their shows were filmed in high school gyms. Like ECW, People think it was bigger than it was because it was plugged by the WWF/E. |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 3, 2017 12:48:39 GMT -5
The answer is yes. The question is if any existing promotion has what it takes (financially, in combination with the right talent) to make it work. It's not the Smoky Mountain territory, but the promotion with enough "going for it" currently in the southeast United States is Wildkat Sports in Louisiana. They just started on local television, and draw pretty good crowds. www.wildkatwrestling.comIf it wasn't for all the turmoil going on BTS in Wildkat I would agree. But unless something changes I doubt Wildkat is gonna get much bigger. |
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Post by thegame415 on Jan 3, 2017 23:02:49 GMT -5
Paintsville, Kentucky has been longing for another show.
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