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Post by originalbadstreet on Sept 6, 2010 15:21:33 GMT -5
They don't actually PROMOTE nor plan. They rely on their websites despite 95 percent of indy crowds being compisded of regular fans. They don't take advantage of local media to advertise their shows, relying only on flyers which can easily be overlooked.
After doing those things, they continue to run towns that simply haven't drawn filling their card with wrestlers that most of the townfolks haven't heard of. Oh, and they also have a show when there are other things happening (like on a Friday night during football season.)
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Post by mrcharlesneal on Jan 9, 2011 16:15:58 GMT -5
I totally agree with you, but if men like Fred Ward and Ray Gunkel was still around they could teach the Indy people some things about how to promote Pro wrestling if the indys want to survive then they need to seek out people who remember the good ole days of pro wretsling and how the promoters did what they did for years and had droves of people who attended the cards and filled the autotoriums up and had standing room only crowds one thing that they did was not to deal with ticket master and the such they did their own ticket sales there is other things that these prideful Indy people can learn from the promoters of the past .
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Post by shawnhudson on Feb 26, 2011 2:13:48 GMT -5
Some of what you say is absolutely true and I agree. Of course some of the stuff you mention is because of limited budget. You cant run a card with familiar names or get TV time without some bucks. I remember one time Jim Cornett said the best way to make a small fortune in the wrestling business is to start with a big one. There are things promoters can do to help bring in crowds that dont cost much like benefit cards giving money to charity or giving a bike away to the kids or tshirts. But yeah going against high School football is not a good idea.
The thing I think is wrong is that the wrestlers dont know how to work and the promoters cant build a card.
I went to a few shows a few years ago and now wouldnt spend the money to do it. In the opening match you have guys going out of the ring and diving from the inside over the ropes to the outside. So to build to a main event where do you go? By the end someone is going to have to jump off a building or come back from the dead to get over.
In the next match the heel got caught in a rollup and unexpectedly got pinned. He slapped his hands on the mat in disgust and the ring resounded louder then than at any point in the match.
Then you have guys working 4 times in a night.I was tired of watching most of these guys in the first match let alone 4rth. Sometimes less is more.
Just my opinion
Shawn
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