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By Carmine Sabia
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For those of you who don’t know
me I am Carmine "C.J." Sabia
and I am the owner of Stars & Stripes
Championship Wrestling in NJ. What I
will be doing once a week here on usaindy.com
is giving you the fans, workers, and
the clueless a little insight into how
a promotion is run. The ins, outs, ups
and downs of the wrestling business
from the inside. I will be outspoken,
harsh, fair, but most importantly truthful.
Everything you will read from me on
the site will not be worked in any way.
The following is a straight shoot.
You know being from New Jersey it seems
that every time I begin typing I have
a little trouble thinking of a topic.
It’s not that there aren’t
any. It’s more like "where
to begin". This state is a mess
plain and simple. You have this promotion
fighting with that promotion, this worker
won’t work with that worker. Sometimes
I want to get everyone in a padded room
and tell them to play nice. It feel
like being on the playground in grade
school. And here’s the real kicker
of it all. Because of all the bickering
almost no one is getting good draws.
See the thinking goes a little something
like this - "Hey my rival promotion
is running on Saturday guess I should
run too". No stupid. No you should
NOT. Now the fans are torn and both
of you lose money.
But it’s all about ego folks.
Always has been and always will be.
This is a business but it is not treated
as such. And it all stems from promoters
believing their own press. Our company
is this, our company is that. We guarantee
this, we promise that. Our workers are
the best in the blah blah blah. Take
Joe Schmo fan to 2 indy shows run by
2 promoters that hate each other and
ask him to point out as little as 4
differences. Bet he can’t. Know
why? Cause we are all selling the same
damn product. Coke and Pepsi, Sprite
and 7-Up, a hooker and a porn star.
It’s all semantics. And it’s
all egos.
I believe very strongly in my promotion
SSCW, and I truly feel it is one of
the best in the area. However there
are several very good promotions right
here in NJ that I think fans would want
to see as well. PCW, IHPW, JCW, JAPW
and ECPW just to name a few offer a
good variety for the average fan. Each
has it’s own strengths and weaknesses.
But if we all worked together a little
more I think as a whole we would have
more strength. Will that ever happen?
I doubt it but I sure hope so. I sure
do hope common sense breaks through
at some point.
I would not come on here and use this
forum to trash 1 company. Really what
I am doing is stating a fact. Not about
1 company but about an industry.. The
things I have stated here are things
we are ALL guilty of. I include myself
in this assessment. But I think we can
all work together for the good of the
business itself. If not for us then
for the fans. Because if we don’t
there won’t be indy wrestling worth
watching in NJ anymore.
Next week I am going to discuss how
a show is put together from day 1 up
until ShowTime. If there are any questions
in particular that you would like answered
please feel free to email me.
Meanwhile check out the NJ independent
organizations.
SSCW – www.sscwwrestling.com.
JCW – www.jcwwrestling.com.
ECPW – www.ecpw1.com.
PCW – www.phoenixwrestling.com.
IHPW – www.ihpw.com.
JAPW – www.japw.net.
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