Anyone else back-yard wrestle?

[Caliber]

I was 15 when wrestling was at it's fever-pitch in 1999. I had fellow friends who loved wrestling as much as I did, and we'd read about kids forming their own back-yard wrestling leagues and thought about how cool that'd be.

We were the BWF. The Backyard Wrestling Federation. We'd have a show once every Friday, right when I got out of school, in my buddy's backyard. We weren't like a lot of idiots who used barbwire, steel chairs, light-tubes, executing powerbombs, pile-drivers, and shit like that. We did our best to be professional, and instead of tables & stuff we used boxes.

We had decent crowd turnout, which was mostly our friends. However, the coolest part is there was an elementary school down the street. When the kids would walk home, they'd stop by the fence and watch us wrestle. There'd be like, 30 kids standing there and cheering their asses off. They'd tell us what moves they wanted to see, and whoever had the momentum would do it. It was a lot of fun, and I saw just how addictive the whole entertaining for a crowd could be. If I wasn't so terrified of being seriously injured, I would have pursued pro-wrestling as a profession.

[scottyflamingo]

That sounds cool. I never did much more than wrestle in the pool, which usually turned into a tragedy. My friend's little brother would always start trying to hurt us for real. It ended when I put him in a legit sleeper and he let out this scream that freaked me out so bad I let go.

[acsativa]

I did some backyard wrestling as a kid, but to even call it "wresting" is an insult to real wrestlers. We were basically CZW before CZW existed, only with smaller crowds and less broken glass, and more fire and hucking ourselves off of idiotic places. It's a wonder any of us survived, much less all escaped relatively unhurt.

[Caliber]

Dec 9, 2012 3:40:08 GMT -5 acsativa said:

hucking ourselves off of idiotic places. It's a wonder any of us survived, much less all escaped relatively unhurt.

I know exactly what you mean. I've seen some videos on the internet where I can't even begin to fathom the depths of the participants ignorance because of what they're doing.

I literally saw a kid standing on a roof, grab another kid and give him White Noise off the fucking roof through a piece of wood that was connected by two saw horses. I seriously can't believe the one kid let him do that, he should have died. I don't know if they were injured or not, but there's no way in hell one of them wasn't. How unbelievably stupid.

When I did back-yard wrestling, there was no piledrivers, no suplexes or powerbombs [unless it was onto a box] no back-flips, no bullshit where we could seriously get hurt. Even still, people were damn entertained

[acsativa]

Dec 9, 2012 11:14:52 GMT -5 Caliber said:

Dec 9, 2012 3:40:08 GMT -5 acsativa said:

hucking ourselves off of idiotic places. It's a wonder any of us survived, much less all escaped relatively unhurt.

I literally saw a kid standing on a roof, grab another kid and give him White Noise off the fucking roof through a piece of wood that was connected by two saw horses. I seriously can't believe the one kid let him do that, he should have died. I don't know if they were injured or not, but there's no way in hell one of them wasn't. How unbelievably stupid.

I've seen a video just like that on a few TruTV shows. Funny thing was they looked like they were in their 20s, making me think it might have been an actual CZW show... Nah, couldn't have been, CZW has better crowds.

[jrozz34]

Yeah we had one way back in 1994...we are actually doing a podcast on it next week...