Category: Future-Shock By Scott Future

A slightly different Future Shock, this week, as there are some random notes I wanted to speak on.

It’s true that wrestlers find it hard to trust each other, and locker rooms are often filled with paranoia – but when an “outsider” threatens a wrestler, the boys stick together. Allow me to write a little about this for this weeks’ Future-Shock…

As promised here are my thoughts and opinions regarding NCW’s debut in Reading on March 13th. It was a particularly stressful drive down to Reading, with the fog and the rain, and the remnants of snow still blocking higher grounds on route to Berkshire. How would NCW’s first show pan out and would the crowd be sent home wanting more?

WrestleMania XX will be the subject this weeks’ Future- Shock, along with my final notes going into NCW this Saturday…

Let me re-iterate that I love wrestling, and this column, which will shortly move from the subject of wrestling promoters, is an analysis of what I have learned from blood, sweat and tears devoted to the wrestling industry. Wrestlers come and go, and promoters come and go. The characteristics I have talked about in previous columns such as age, experience, background and professionalism can be reversed on wrestlers. The basics are the same…

After several articles relating to promoters, I’m going move slightly away this week. Rather than covering promoters on the whole and analysing industry trends, I’m going to focus on the new promotion NCW. I’ll get back on the original track next time out…

First off what a response from my last column! I received a handful of emails after last weeks writing, and a number of them prominent names in the current British Wrestling scene. Sorry, but out of respect I wont name names, but suffice to say that the points I made last time out were well heard. Although these names may indeed be “prominent” that doesn’t make them proven. The Internet can make anyone famous…

The question of age and experience comes up time and time again when looking into the potential of any new promoter. This may ruffle feathers, but I challenge you to call me inaccurate…

This article is the first in a series that’s going to focus on one of the hottest topics in British Wrestling: The potential and possibilities open to new starter promotions.

With all the festivities firmly behind us, the realism of a new year sinks in. Many of you have probably already passed up on your New Year resolutions, others may last the distance. 2004 is a new year and one that needs to be grasped with both hands.