CWF Moves To New Hands!!!

Well, after 16 years of being involved in Professional Wrestling, 11 years of doing it full time making a living and operating a successful pro wrestling business, I have decided to officially call it quits. After the last tour that I started seeking a job and making plans to pass on the tradition of the CWF to someone I could trust NOT to come into the communities I have established as CWF venues with drug and alcohol abusers, which plaques the independent wrestling scene that I have become familar with.

The main reason was due to my wife finally getting her visa and moving to Canada. I waited long enough for her to come live with me so being on the road and apart was not part of my future. You add the local Winnipeg wrestlers who contacted my former wife to tell her lies about me in the attempt to run me out of the wrestling business, thus causing my divorce and the pending hardships on my children, staying in the wrestling business as one of the most successful promoters in Canada, was just not worth it to me any longer.

I also felt the need to protect the long term friends I made in the Aboriginal communities from the lies and deceit of other wrestling promoters who only care about how much money they can take out of the community or if they can score a local woman then brag online and to their friends about their conquest. I enforced strict rules on the wrestlers I brought into the community that I visited. The only time I had problems was when I used Winnipeg based wrestlers which I stopped doing.

As a result of my retirement from pro wrestling, I have passed the torch of the CWF on to Frank Ryckman, who owns a successful wrestling promotion and wrestling school in St. Catherines Ontario and has trained the likes of Robby Reckless, TJ Thunder and Jessie Beiber who have all been accepted as youth role models in the communties they visited. 

I plan on sitting down in the future to write regular blogs, plus a writing a book on my wrestling experience which also includes those that were accused of interfering in my personal life and counter some of the false claims people have wrote about me online and in their fictious books.

Even though I will never be recognized by the Canadian Wrestling Hall of Fame for my achievements due to bias and blackballing by those who have the power to put people in it or not, I have many more accomplishments then others will ever have who are in the Hall of Fame now. That is good enough for me!! Not or never being accepted by the "wrestling fraternity" is not important as being accepted by the aboriginal communties I have visited right across Canada.

I have always said that when I leave it will be on my terms and I am satisfied I will do just that, plus leave the CWF in good hands. Miigwetch.

The Future Looks Dim?

First of all I am taking a break for Pro Wrestling as I have been offered a job and want to try it out to see what happens. Getting up a 6:30 am every day, working 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, a few Saturday mornings is taking some time to get my body adjusted to but the money is very good, the people who own the company are good people and the potential for myself is unlimited. I am going to make my final decision at the end of the year as to whether I am going to sell the CWF and retire. Oh, don't worry there are buyers.

With that being said I have focused some attention on the local scene. I thought maybe I could help some local promotions out with my services on the weekend if they asked me to. Being that I don't even go see a local show or watch wrestling on TV, I had my reservations about even being involved in the "sandlot" mentality that haunts the local scene.

I had one promoter call me and offer me a spot on his show. I told him my PO and he agreed to it, then proceed to tell me his booker would contact me. That never happened so I contacted the promoter 2 days before the show where I was told by his wife that they could not afford to pay me. Well why did you call me in the first place? Talk about unprofessional! Needless to say if I would have showed up with my gear for the show there would have been a problem as I would have wanted what was promised to me. That is just a tip of what is wrong with the local scene here in Winnipeg.

Next a promoter contacted me wanting, well insisting, that I be a part of his Kerry Brown Memorial show. He told me I could do whatever I wanted, gave me a few scenarios and insisted he wanted me part of the show. I told him I had to think about it as I did have a few personal things that might be happening around that time. He understood and told me when I knew to contact him as he really wanted me part of the show.

Once I found out I could do this show (only because it had Kerry's name attached to it) I contacted him, informed him I could do the special guest referee spot and gave him my PO. He replied that he could not pay me but I could sell my merchandise if I wanted to. Feeling disrespected and insulted I declined to be on the show which drew under 50 people so I am sure I would have sold a lot of merchandise, lol.

Maybe if he would have booked me for his 3 show tour that weekend we could have worked something out as selling merchandise at 3 shows would have maybe turned some sort of profit and a small PO for partcipation in each show would have been suffice but he has his business ways so it was not to be.

Far too many are involved with Pro Wrestling now!!! Promoters who are marks for the business who have no clue how to promote, how a show is to be run, professional conduct and the lists can go on for pages. 

Now any couch potato, video gamer, can call up these promoters, get in the ring with no or very little training, no have a clue what they are to do in the ring,thus turning off fans who lump all the indy promotions together as the some of same guys are working on shows for different promotions in a small city such as Winnipeg.

There are very few atheletes becoming involved here locally, very few businessmen, the fan base is dwindling, it is too easy to get in, and the list goes on and on.

I remember before I got involved with wrestling seeing the guys in the gym working out. I don't see to many people in the gym working out locally or with wrestling boots and gear.

In order for the fans to be brought back like in the days of the TRCW/CWF shoot fued, the wrestlers need to choose sides, work for one promotion and do more than just show up to a show. Being a pro wrestling is a full time job and unless you are willing to dedicate yourself to being the best you can be, like a Kenny Omega, then as the saying goes "drop down, shoulder tackle, hip toss, get out of the business kid"!