----Jonathan Storm was arrested last week when he allegedly texted a 15 year old girl about having sex. The sex crime laws are very strict these days and as they should be. Each state has its own age from Arkansas to Tennessee. Funny thing there is a list of ages and the states posted in one of the local dressing rooms. It is sort of fun to joke about and I do know I was one to do it in my original fanzine. I guess I feel a little different now, because I am 41 years old and I have three daughters of my own. I do know that “Barely Legal” porn is one of the highest sellers, but the girls in those videos are LEGAL. I don’t know if there really is a solution to this problem, as a local worker told me, “they are not only doing it in wrestling, but it is a society thing..” and I agree with him. It is almost a disease in that guys that like younger girls, well..they like younger girls. Just watch an episode of “Dateline” and see how many get caught TWICE!! My advice to all the workers in this area, especially the ones that have already been ask not to come to certain shows, have pictures posted on myspace kissing younger girls, the ones that I know have admittedly been with younger girls and those like Storm that have been caught – LEAVE THEM ALONE!! If you have a problem – go get some help. If you think illegal drugs and drinking could kill a promotion, think about if 2 or 3 of the main guys were arrested for underage girls??
----There would probably a major argument between the two main trainers in this area on who trains the best wrestlers?? Kevin White and Ken Wayne are the top dogs. I would recommend no one else to train. I do know that various other guys train wrestlers and nothing against them, but these two guys have programs – not just come to this place for so long and bam you get to be a wrestler. Arn Anderson in his book says he was trained for 6 weeks and then threw in the ring to wrestle. He was natural. How many more guys could have done that?? Guys like Eric Wayne, who was born to wrestle, catch on quicker than guys like The Grappler from White’s school. Cody Melton really outshines Greg King JR, but then Kid Nikels also might be able to have a better match than either. Although some of the guys from White’s school may not be as smooth as Ken Wayne’s school, Kevin does have more guys working in this area. And that is what most of them have the goal to do – is wrestle. So who would I pick?? Damn, you guys are trying to get me heat; right?? LOL I personally would have to go with Ken Wayne first, but as I said it is all personal – this guy was one of my favorite workers while growing up [as Kevin was trained by one of his favorites – Bill Dundee] and a tag team guy. So, my nod would go to him. Is this saying that White would not provide me with something?? No, I am not saying that. Eric Wayne and Cody Melton have the potential to be two of the best workers in this area in the next few years and they came from two different schools.
----Jeremy McNew and WWCW should have learned a valuable lesson in Carbondale, IL, but after a few e-mails from him and message board posts, it seems that they didn’t. Why have we really not seen that much bad press about these guys, even though they flopped?? I think mainly because I and almost everyone else wanted them to succeed. There is still that chance of them doing that – but it is slim. It seems that every year a promoter will pop up and do a few shows. That promoter talks about how he is bigger and better than all – hires a bunch of “names” and then falls on his face. I know..I know..it seems like this is written EVERY year. Why can people not learn from past mistakes of other promoters and see there is not rhyme or reason in the way they promote?? Hub City Wrestling at the fair drew more people last year with all local guys and Bill Dundee. Kenny Valiant runs shows with usually one big name and rest of local guys drawing very well. Beau James does well on the big shows and he usually runs with one or two big names. I got to give it to Jeremy if he does pay the guys that worked the show as he has promised. He gets a nod from almost everyone that stayed that said he was a nice guy and really wanted it to succeed. I hope the best for him. If I was him, I would get some of the guys that stayed and let them help run the show. At this point, Jeremy is just a mark with money running shows until he is out of money. By the way, for those that wondered why I did not post the results – Jeremy e-mailed me with 4 matches and even said, “this is all I can remember..”. If you can’t respect your product and know what is going on, then how do you expect anyone else to do that??
----False advertising has been part of the business for years. It seems that since wrestling is work, then many feel they can just “work” everyone and advertise someone that is not even going to be there. Every promoter has had a time when they advertised someone and that person did not show up. I advertised Rocky Johnson in Selmer, TN for a show. He might be a bigger draw now, but with all the advertising I did – we drew less than 100 people and Rocky did not show up. So, what do you do?? The first thing you do is put posters and such at the front of the door. Let the fans know as they walk in the door that Rocky Johnson is not going to be there. Announce it again before the matches start and offer a refund to anyone that came to see Rocky. NBW promoter Jeff McDonald had a situation with Mike Bucci where he had all his advertisement out, but Bucci did not show. Jeff did everything the RIGHT way and posted all info at the front of the door and such. Jeff recently almost had a no show on the part of Chris Masters and his first reaction was to make sure the fans that did come out that night were happy. Masters showed and he didn’t have anything to worry about. [It was all because of confusion with a plane ticket and had NOTHING to do with Masters holding up for more money.] So, when is false advertising just totally wrong – take a look at what Matt Holder did to Stan Lane. Lane is retired. He has no intention of working. But, Holder by just leaving a couple of messages on Lane’s phone thought it was ok to advertise him. This is a shitty way to do business and gives all promoters a bad name. Even though I totally disagree with it, I am thinking it might be better sometimes to just do as Derrick King does – if they show up, they are surprises – if they do not show up, then no one was screwed.
----Speaking of Selmer, TN, it seems that Selmer is being judged as a “hot bed” of sorts. This is mainly because no events have been run in that town in a while and shows have done well for that town. Southern Impact Elite announced their first show many weeks back for Selmer, TN. As mentioned on www.rroradio.com, Memphis Wrestling plans a show the day before in the same town. Will either show draw?? It will be interesting to see if it just confuses people or will they come out to ‘stars” or some come out to see a bunch of Chikara guys vs some of the best talent in this area?? It will all be up how both groups advertise and get the word out to fans. SIE should paper the parking lot Friday night with posters of their show. This is not always a popular act, but it does help get fans into the building. Not sure if they can draw for two shows though, because a lot of people that go Friday night will not go Saturday night. It will be interesting to see if the “old school” guys will out draw the Chikara guys as Selmer, TN either heats up again as a good town or they both just burn it for the summer.
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