“What’s wrong with the Wrestling Business” Indy Edition by “Dynamite” Seth Knight

----Seth Knight had a popular column last year and sent in an "one shot" piece here.  Some of this is just hilarious and some of it is..well...just sad.

“What’s wrong with the Wrestling Business” Indy Edition by “Dynamite” Seth Knight

In no particular order….

1. TIWF
2. Workers who are also the booker
3. Worker/Bookers who put themselves in the main event
4. Belt Marks
5. Goofs who should be in the crowd instead of in the ring
6. People who buy their kids wrestling companies
7. Workers who are more worried about how their ass looks in their tights than if they know how to do a hammerlock correctly
8. Shows that bring in a big name and advertise the hell out of the show and get the same crowd they would have gotten just by advertising the talent they already had and giving all the money to the big name they booked
9. Paying your talent less than $15 dollars
10. Paying talent who are worthless over $5 dollars
11. Workers who wont retire and let the younger guys take over
12. No respect for the business
13. No respect for the fans
14. Smartening up the fans
15. Moves that look fake
16. Punches that look fake
17. Thinking that being stiff is a talent
18. Lazy workers who wont go to the damn gym
19. Workers who take off their T-shirt and jeans, open their bag up, and put on ANOTHER shirt and jeans to work in
20. Workers who aren’t workers
21. People who make up stupid lists
22. People who post the lists to wrestling websites
23. Shoot interviews
24. Workers who don’t even WATCH WRESTLING!!!
25. Workers who say “Huh” When you say “Here comes an RKO”
26. Workers who are LATE!!!
27. Workers who leave as soon as they work and don’t watch any of the other matches
28. Workers who think they have nothing else to learn
29. RRO News Website
30. Wrestling News Center
31. Buying a new pair of tights each week when you shouldn’t even be in the ring yet
32. Sitting in the crowd when a babyface is taking a beating and not doing anything because it wasn’t booked that way, Go to THE BACK!!
33. Rats
34. Wrestlers who don’t have jobs and don’t pay child support…But they make it to the show every week….Way to go dads.
35. Masked Wrestlers who take off their masks and walk in and out of the building or dressing room. Everyone knows you weren’t on the card and the masked guy never came in or left so it’s probably you….
36. The fact that I have 36 of these so far
37. No Psychology
38. Start match, Lock up, Duck one, Piledriver, Kick out
39. Skinny wrestlers in T Shirts
40. Fat Wrestlers in trunks
41. Wearing the same attire to the ring for over a year
42. Tennis shoes with kick pads over them
43. Ugly wrestlers who don’t wear masks
44. Wrestlers with no teeth
45. Anyone who comes out to a current WWE wrestlers entrance theme
46. Workers who wrestle just because there’s nothing better to do
47. A Wrestler who isn’t big enough to ever injure anyone with any move, ever, ever,doing a move to any worker…Just please go home, midget.
48. Using any WWE catch phrase as your own – Example “That’s the bottom line, Cause Seth Knight said so”
49. Throwing an invisible grenade into the ring and your opponent being “blown up” by it
50. The way people in today’s world react when you tell them you are a Professional Wrestler….Breaks my heart.

Thanks for your time

-Seth