The “Why you should really love Indy wrestling” award of the week:
Unless you’re a pro football player who is in dire need of a second career option or a lower list celebrity who figures you have no place to go but up, any person who gets into pro wrestling does so because it was or is a dream. You spent your youth pretending to be like the legend of your choosing. (Though I’ve yet to meet a true Hillbilly Jim-mark) You entered into rooms humming the “your” theme music. You put on wrestling shows in your friend’s front yard using mattresses as the ring. You joined the IWA and wrote awesome promos for your stable or wrestlers and mailed them in. If you want to be a pro wrestler, you want to live the dream.
Which is why the Fit Pit Fit Tips for How to be a Good Pro Wrestler are a beacon of light for the pro wrestling dreamer in you. The videos are produced by former XPW mainstay GQ Money as part of his Fit Pit Pro Wrestling School… and they are both comedy gold and valued tips for your climb to the main event. GQ’s school of thought is character and style first and he has produced a great series of tongue in cheek clips based on the little nuances and moments of matches we all grew up watching… and screaming at the TV screen when the wrestlers fell for them.
Tip number 29: Don’t attack with a double sledge. The raised hammer grip is ALWAYS going to leave you vulnerable.
Tip number 18: Chasing gets you caught. NEVER chase your opponent around the ring. It only leads to a ringside clothesline or getting the boots put to ya upon climbing back in.
Tip number 24: Don’t get distracted. When a manager or valet jumps up on the ring apron, don’t turn to face them! You’ll just end up in a pinning predicament.
There’s more and I implore you to dig them up on the ‘Net or makemeaprowrestler.com. GQ and his co-trainer Bo Cooper (WWE’s Ricardo Rodriquez was a Fit Pit trainer when joined the Del Rio express to the main event.) have turned out some entertaining and different talent like The Hobo, Hanes Classic, and the “Modern Day Midas” Mario Banks. Above all else wrestling should always be entertaining and GQ Money’s Fit Pit Fit Tips on How to be a Good Pro Wrestler are just that.
Calls for submissions:
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The “Unsolicited TNA advice” of the week:
Cut a half-hour of programming.
I’m sure Spike TV would not let them. That’s 30 minutes of television they’d have to pay to replace, but in my head movies this makes sense. Every week I watch Impact! and find myself liking some segments, moments, or matches… it’s not all a lost wasteland. Yet every week the show ends and I feel exhausted, like I wasted a good evening… even when I fast forward through the commercials or any segment with a cast member of Jersey Shore. Cutting an hour would probably be too drastic, but I’m even on board for that. It’s like a band releasing a crappy double album when it could have been a decent 12 track effort. Cut the chuff, go 90 minutes.
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