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Cattle Mutilation & Majik makes some good points here.If I were to give my honest thoughts on a wrestling match, which the wrestler would actually listen to, he could a) agree with me and tell me that he's working on improving those specific points, or b) tell me he disagree with them. To me, a good up-and-coming wrestler listens to the fans as well as his fellow wrestlers, because at the end of the day, you're wrestling to please the fans.

Terje, I agree with everything you just said, and i have to a degree on this thread. I agree that an up and coming worker should listen to EVERYONE and take on board EVREYTHING that is said to them. In my case i realised that i didnt have the ability, which beleive me is a jagged pill to swallow, when you love something this much. So i reassessed the situation and thought to myself, i can play the game, but in a different way. This way for me was the way i wanted to go and make a "name" for myself, if that is possible in British Wrestling. Majik and anyone else who does work regulally then i have the utmost respect for you and what you do.I even have respect for the "educated" marks who put forward critiscm and comments in a constructive manner. What i dont have time for is the "uneducated" individuals who want to bring down the people who are busting their asses to entertain them. Cheers.

I own my own business, I dont need the money, I wanted to Wrestle infront of as many people as i could, i trained to do so, worked hard, got in shape (well sort of ) and was given the chance to wrestle for the FWA.I did and the slagging i got was unbearable. Dont get me wrong i welcomed any criticsm with open arms good or bad, but comments like "Bishop didnt deserve to be in the same building as the FWA guys" and "Bishop was the drizzling sh**s" cut deep.Left me thinking "is this a business I REALLY want to be part of?"The answer was yes, but not as an active worker.

How would YOU rate those performances?As heavy handed and as those criticisms were, and as much as it must have hurt reading them, on reflection were they correct?If you want to wrestle why not stick at it (it takes the best YEARS to reach any sort of proficiancy) instead of becoming a referee?

To be honest 50% of the reports i got back were good, not just from Fans but also people in the business who were there and i took it to for critiscm. But the severity of the "bad" and "harmful" reports i got back completley overshadowed the good bits. I myself was pleased with the match, i was pleased with my performance. However upon relection i am no James Tighe, James Mason or Jack Xaiver, i know my limits, and at the age of 27, time is not on my side. I know i will be a very good referee and my "performances" so far suggest that. But deep down i know that i do not have the ability nor the inclination to perform to a level the smarts expect, and quite honestly, that level is beyond me. Who knows times may change. But for the moment I am more than happy with my identity as a referee in what i consider an excellent place to work. To be honest there is a distict lack of good up and coming referees in the UK game. It is a role i will be comfortable with and will get the same buzz from it too, whilst not putting my life on the line everytime. Thanks for your comments though.

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This could then sway promoters from booking those names, so in that regard, criticism can have a real impact on pro wrestlers' (many of whom are really, when it comes down to it, fans who wrestle at weekends) careers.

Mo, you are dead right here.Imagine you are a Sales person and one of your clients or customers came on a public forum like this dedicated to sales people, where he knew clients and prospectiv employers read the posts, and made comments like "He cant sell, he doesnt know how to", all due to one bad incident. Do you think that the person in question would be re-hired by anyone who knew of this feedback, or would be able to sell to new clients who knew the feedback, the answer here is no. The main reason people defend themselves in a public manner is so that they can still be seemed to give a sh** about what they do and care about what they do. At the end of the day this is a business and most of these guys see this as a living (even the US guys relating to US Smarts), and most of them are grown men. Now these grown men are having 12-15 year old smartasses ruining their reputations in a public manner, when in all honesty they are trying to earn a living whilst trying to entertain said smartasses.Some of the things i have read over the last two years on the board are criminal regarding people's abilities as wrestlers. At the end of the day in a business that is revolving more and more around the internet, these guys have the right to defend themselves just as you all have a right to an opinion.Please just bear in mind that for some of these guys this is their livelyhood and some (not all) smarts take great pleasure in inadvertantly ruining careers.