Yes, I know the title sounds like a joke opener haha.
Today I went to a local show here in Singapore (Singapore Pro Wrestling) with a group of friends who also brought some of their friends. There were first timers to the event (people who never watched wrestling in their life, people who watched as kids and stopped watching) as well as people who are casuals (attended the previous events but don't watch Wrestling online/TV) and guys like me who watch Jap wrestling, WWE, indie shows.
This event had Jason Lee from CWC in the main event, huge bodybuilder matches, comedy matches, tag matches, spot fests, surprises as well as a legit interruption in the intergender tag match when a fan rolled into the ring.
After the match i was legit surprised to hear how one person who has never watched wrestling before really enjoy it, but from a way different perspective from me. She was talking about how she felt for the Ref during the ref bump, why she hated it when one of the losers returned to the ring to deliver chair shots to the winner and how the annoying the authority figure was when he removed the Power Warrior (the champ) from the title match to set up a triple threat match. She also asked why the fan rolled into the ring and if he was a wrestler too.
One of the casuals also talked to me about how he really liked this cruiserweight because he was athletic and did all the high flying moves. He didn't really fixate on the numerous botches that I spotted immediately.
Most of my friends did not understand what "Nakamura", "1,2....SWEET", "Botchamania" chants were about.
I kind of thought to myself, who enjoyed it more? Does that even matter? Am I just displaying my insecurities as a wrestling fan?
All in all, I think I managed to get at least 8/10 of them to come back for the next event. And I'm kind of proud of that.
Have you guys ever brought non-hardcore fans to a wrestling show and what were your experiences?
Today I went to a local show here in Singapore (Singapore Pro Wrestling) with a group of friends who also brought some of their friends. There were first timers to the event (people who never watched wrestling in their life, people who watched as kids and stopped watching) as well as people who are casuals (attended the previous events but don't watch Wrestling online/TV) and guys like me who watch Jap wrestling, WWE, indie shows.
This event had Jason Lee from CWC in the main event, huge bodybuilder matches, comedy matches, tag matches, spot fests, surprises as well as a legit interruption in the intergender tag match when a fan rolled into the ring.
After the match i was legit surprised to hear how one person who has never watched wrestling before really enjoy it, but from a way different perspective from me. She was talking about how she felt for the Ref during the ref bump, why she hated it when one of the losers returned to the ring to deliver chair shots to the winner and how the annoying the authority figure was when he removed the Power Warrior (the champ) from the title match to set up a triple threat match. She also asked why the fan rolled into the ring and if he was a wrestler too.
One of the casuals also talked to me about how he really liked this cruiserweight because he was athletic and did all the high flying moves. He didn't really fixate on the numerous botches that I spotted immediately.
Most of my friends did not understand what "Nakamura", "1,2....SWEET", "Botchamania" chants were about.
I kind of thought to myself, who enjoyed it more? Does that even matter? Am I just displaying my insecurities as a wrestling fan?
All in all, I think I managed to get at least 8/10 of them to come back for the next event. And I'm kind of proud of that.
Have you guys ever brought non-hardcore fans to a wrestling show and what were your experiences?