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Backyard Wrestling

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Welcome to the phenomenon that is backyard wrestling in the U.K. Imported from the U.S., where it championed the glitz, glamour, moves, showboating and story lines of U.S. wrestling. But here in the backyards of northern England, it is gritty, cold, and not for the uncommitted.
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  • BooksBrown
  • SlashUGWA
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      SlashUGWA  

    • I've been backyard wrestling for 13 years, and started on playgrounds and grass like you guys, n let me tell you from experience, get a ring as soon as possible because your body can only take the bumps you guys take on solid ground for so long before it gives in. After wrestling on solid surfaces, then getting into a wrestling ring, bumping in there is like landing on cotton candy and marshmallows.

    • 3 years ago
  • ScottyB1991
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      ScottyB1991  

    • A very intresting video.
      Backyarding is seen to be a very American aspect of the sport, and being a wrestling fan from the UK it really highlights the des[eration of people to be like Hulk Hogan or HHH.
      The sad reality is, they won't ever reach that kind of international recognition.
      They mention that, they'd go to a wrestling school if there was one available, and I'm pretty sure that, if they were to do sufficent looking, at UK based wrestling forums like talkwrestlingonline.com/forums and The UKFF, they'd find several schools in one area.
      Being backyarder's the industry wont take kindly to them, it's people like them who give the industry a bad name, and will be a risk to people due to the lack of training.

      For a list of UK Wrestling schools, please check here:
      http://www.talkwrestlingonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28775

    • 3 years ago
  • superjake2004
  • rayzel
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