Re: Tony
I was going to keep my background a secret, so some people take things too personally and can't put together a solid argument without 'lolpurosmark' or something equally as silly. Anyway, I was told you are a fine fellow. I've been watching wrestling since I was about 4, back in around 1989. Myself and my brothers used to get out old WWF shows and watch them. Good times, good times. I watched WWF/E until around 2002, when my ability to watch it went out the door, and I just gave up. Around 1999, I got into Japanese Pro-Wrestling and that has evolved dramatically. At the moment, I am more of a fan of the 'Shoot-Style' aspect of wrestling, so completely different to the product anyone in America or Australia would put out. The closest thing in Australia would be going to watch Brazilian Jiu Jitsu more then anything. Favourite company at the moment would be Fighting Investigation Team BattlARTS, which I doubt anyone has heard of. Fu-ten is another. In non 'shoot-style' terms, I follow everything in Japan pretty closely. I can't stand the American indy style of wrestling, so don't bother with that, apart from a handful of CHIKARA shows. That is one of the reasons I am put off by the current NOAH and Dragon Gate products. It is tending more towards the over the top style of wrestling, then the fundamentals. I am trying not to ramble too much here. Favourite wrestlers at the moment: Alexander Otsuka, Munenori Sawa, Daisuke Ikeda, Yuki Ishikawa. Plenty of other favourites, but those are the four notables at the moment. In regards to Australian wrestling. My biggest qualm from a personal standpoint is I believe it could be so much more then it is. Unfortunately it has to be looked at from a business perspective, and that means portraying a more American style of wrestling, since I saw that the majority of fans are fans of the WWE product. I personally think that the Australian scene should focus on building up an Australian style, but that is going against trends. In England, they moved away from the English technical style to the American style, which was sad in itself. Europe is heading that way and Catch-as-catch-can is pretty much lost over there, except in a handful of places. As any Australian wrestling fan, you want Australia to rise and be a player in the international scene, but I personally feel that mimmicking America or anywhere at all doesn't help a wrestling company. When it comes to what EPW I have seen. I have only been to three shows. The first I went to was the infamous Mikey smacking the side of his head against the ring apron show, and since then I was turned off from the product. I was talked into going to Re-Awakening which was just beyond a joke from my personal views, a lot of it being the unclean finishes. The show from the weekend was passable. But there is a big jump between a handful of wrestlers and the rest of the roster, in terms of talent. From what I have personally seen (and not basing this on what I have been told), Damien Slater, Davis Storm then to a lesser extent Jimmy Payne and Bobby Marshall are the best guys I have seen. I hope that helps. Now wait for the obvious flaming. Anymore questions I will be happy to answer. Sorry for the incoherency of the post, trying to get a lot of thoughts down at once.

Nope, not a problem about coherency, thankyou for holding me in high esteem, although i'm unsure we have ever met I apologise if we have. But also of course thankyou for you fast response. It does help, I don't speak for the company but i'm sure they would agree that we are always looking to improve. On a side note thanks for the review on our new referee, Giles, I was glad to see he made is debut in my absence and to great success. I'm also sure he'll read this and well done man.

Mr. LUKIE the problem you face is that your favourite style of wrestling is a sub-style to a fairly unpopular (in Australai at least) style of wrestling. As you know the majority of Wrestling fans are fans of the WWF/E. which means the majority of people who show up to EPW show's are also going to be fans of WWF/E style wrestling. Most of them will never know the joys of Misawa/Kobashi/Kawada matches from All Japan Wrestling in 1994, let alone even hear of those names or that promotion. So it would be pointless for EPW to wrestle that kind of style. The majority of fans, which includes kids, just want to see solid wresting and the good guy bad guy style they're so familiar with. Trying anything else, which may entertain you and I more however, would leave everyone else disappointed. Although I'm sure you realise all of this anyway. See you at the next show.

Random wrestling thoughts -European wrestling with rounds etc to me is so boring, as soon as I see those types of matches starting on a dvd I will skip straight to the next match -Bushido was something I used to really enjoy and just recently found out it was worked, I think I would enjoy a good worked shoot match that a boring real fight which seem to be happening on a regular basis in MMA. -K1 I like probably the most out of the "real fighting groups" nothing like a good stand up fight -apparently TNA are looking at going in the work shoot direction -I have been to a ROH show and probably enjoy most of the EPW events over that -wrestling shows are like everything in life, your going to have good ones and some bad ones, its when you start having just bad ones you should get worried -remember it is wrestling, your supposed to turn off a good portion of your brain on entry :P

-Bushido was something I used to really enjoy and just recently found out it was worked, I think I would enjoy a good worked shoot match that a boring real fight which seem to be happening on a regular basis in MMA. It's called UWF-i, and is not actually Bushido. Bushido was the western term given to it, because they didn't realise it was worked.