Starting a Wrestling Society

[Trout Stain]

I can't imagine anything worse than joining a wrestling society at university, let alone starting one - watching it with a group of mates is fine, but to advertise the fact, particularly in the first semester when everybody is trying to impress everyone else and create a good impression is probably about as wise as dressing up as Maggie Thatcher at a Nottingham Coal Miners Reunion party.Having said that, I think you will be surprised how many people will actually take an interest in wrestling. Bearing in mind I found that there was very little to do except drink cider and take mind enchancing drugs while furthering the educational mind, so entertainment comes in very short supply. We used to watch every PPV round our uni house with a couple of beers, some form of gambling system in place and a pizza/KFC bargain bucket. My one female housemate was given a terrible fright the year Edge returned at Survior Series when six slightly inebriated men began screaming the house down at 3am. Also, a lot of people who were lapsed fans from the attitude era got back into purely because the nights became such a good laugh and there wasn't a lot else to do, to the point whereby D Lo Brown's theme tune even got played in one lecture towards the end of the third year

[MindGrrind]

What Uni are you at ?

I'm based in Canterbury.

Get a bf instead. And some cheap cider. Save wrestling for when your back at mam and dads at weekends .

Was gonna try and attempt to get my boyfriend into wrestling but thought he might get the wrong end of the stick upon seeing beefy guys running around in next to nothing. Hence me trying to hunt out local fans.I can understand why some might be a little apprehensive to join such a society, but i'm not too concerned with my 'credibility'. I guess the best bet is to post something on the student site and see if I can get any kind of positive response. Goodbye potential social life!

[Allstar69]

What Uni are you at ?

I'm based in Canterbury.

Get a bf instead. And some cheap cider. Save wrestling for when your back at mam and dads at weekends .

Was gonna try and attempt to get my boyfriend into wrestling but thought he might get the wrong end of the stick upon seeing beefy guys running around in next to nothing. Hence me trying to hunt out local fans.I can understand why some might be a little apprehensive to join such a society, but i'm not too concerned with my 'credibility'. I guess the best bet is to post something on the student site and see if I can get any kind of positive response. Goodbye potential social life!

Just do it. If ppl dont like it well its there choice. If they dont want to get to know you cos they dont like wrestling fuck them there small minded idiots. Im sorry there is worse groups to start at uni. Ultimate Frizzbie anyone seems all unis are doin it now

[LariatTom]

What Uni are you at ?

I'm based in Canterbury.

Get a bf instead. And some cheap cider. Save wrestling for when your back at mam and dads at weekends .

Was gonna try and attempt to get my boyfriend into wrestling but thought he might get the wrong end of the stick upon seeing beefy guys running around in next to nothing. Hence me trying to hunt out local fans.I can understand why some might be a little apprehensive to join such a society, but i'm not too concerned with my 'credibility'. I guess the best bet is to post something on the student site and see if I can get any kind of positive response. Goodbye potential social life!

Just do it. If ppl dont like it well its there choice. If they dont want to get to know you cos they dont like wrestling fuck them there small minded idiots. Im sorry there is worse groups to start at uni. Ultimate Frizzbie anyone seems all unis are doin it now

Leeds Uni has now got a Quidditch society. That seems like a relatively niche thing, though I imagine everyone still likes Harry Potter and thinks it'll be cool to do that. Chances are if you express an interest in forming a society, you'll have a chance of making it happen. There'll be people out there who will watch it, or used to watch it, vaguely follow it and find themselves watching some of it again.I know at Leeds to form a society you need to prove that there'll be enough interest to form a society and you'll be able to recruit members and whatnot. Stick a notice in your uni paper or somewhere in the union with some form of contact details asking if there are any fans. If you get responses, look up what you need to do to form a new society at your uni and then take it to the relevant person in the union and they'll be able to help you. I think NGW did a show in Hull during Freshers recently and PCW were posting things on university walls promoting themselves. Maybe look at other societies where you might find similar interests (again, from personal experience, I've met some wrestling fans through RockSoc) and try and talk up the idea.Best of luck with it though!

[fugaziuk]

Leeds Uni has now got a Quidditch society. That seems like a relatively niche thing, though I imagine everyone still likes Harry Potter and thinks it'll be cool to do that. Chances are if you express an interest in forming a society, you'll have a chance of making it happen. There'll be people out there who will watch it, or used to watch it, vaguely follow it and find themselves watching some of it again.

What??!! how does that even work - you know since you can't actually play quidditch in real life or do they attach brooms to bikes or something?Anyway back on to wrestling - while i was at uni the artful dodger pub in york used to show all the ppvs and have svr tournaments on the big screen before the event started. Went down with one of my housemates one night only to discover a load of people from my course there! So like others have said people might not admit it at first but there will be loads of people secretly interested in wrestling.

[SuperstarNeilC]

Most Student Union bars have Sky TVTalk to your bar manager and ask if they'll play Raw, TNA, the next ppv on their screens

[bighead55]

Once a month rent a coach/minibus/make megabus rich and pack out an event if you call the promoter beforehand they might let you party with wrestlers backstage or something saying as your bulk buying tickets. Or just get a projector some old ecw tapes and a load of booze.

[quote the raven]

Canterbury hope your not living in one of my houses on the downs road estate. That said i provide sky tv to my lot. If your landlord does have sky installed just pay a bit extra for sports. Get some booze food and your shorted

[Magnum Milano]

Having said that, back in 1999/2000 when all students loved wrestling, this would have been fucking ace. I always wanted to be one of those yank fratboys having a 'JR is WAR' party.

We didn't have a wrestling society but 98/99 was my third and final year at Uni. Some of my friends had Sky installed at theirs (which I am guessing was pretty rare back then) and a group of us would always gather for the wrestling and boxing PPVs (although numbers would vary depending on the event/fight). Wrestlemania XV was the big one for us and it ended up being fancy dress with everyone getting dressed up in various wrestling outfits, a bunch of us even got together for a ten year reunion of it to watch the 2009 event.As others have said, don't be too worried about what people think, as far more will be interested that what you think or initially let on. Personally, I don't know whether I would have been up for getting together to watch Raw every week (I think I occasionally watched the highlights shows in the SU bar and pretty much followed what was happening on the internet), but I never missed any of the PPV get-togethers.

[Dr Reefer]

Last time I looked Canterbury Uni had a Pagan Society, a Gamer Society, Socialist groups... I wouldn't worry about what everyone thinks of a bunch of wrestling fans. I've got a mate doing a biology degree there who's soft in the head for wrestling.

[Chest Rockwell]

Or that's just a massive cliche that's hardly ever the case.

I know... what will the cool kids think? You'll never get to go to any keggers, and the sorority girls will stick their noses in their air and just keep on walking their pink-dyed Chihuahuas right past you. Unless... you found your own co-ed fraternity, Grappler Gooker Doink. You could be the campus rebels, living out on the outskirts of town in a ramshackle old house, filled with wrestling memorabilia. Mebbe you could get Jim Cornette, in drag, to be your house mother? Possibly you could prank the school, by digging up Pez Whatley's corpse for your parade float? Even though the townies AND the jocks will mock you, they will secretly be attracted, and when you save the school with your knowledge of Japanese wristclutch finishers, you'll be pronounced the coolest kids in cawledge! Just stay out of the way of crusty old Dean Douglas, and make sure to never spend the night in the spooky. haunted. tower. and you'll be fine.

:laugh:I enjoyed this post.edit: also, I'm surprised that you of all people, Magnum, seem to be projecting these insecurities given that you work at a Uni.

[Mr_Danger]

This is what's wrong with society. Start a wrestling club and you're an outcast, wear skinny jeans and a pork pie hat and you're considered cool. Granted i'm a little out of date so swap skinny jeans for spray on pants or whatever those crazy kidz are in to these days.

[Philo_Vance]

Canterbury also has a fucking PIRATE society. I wouldn't worry too much about what people think, just do it. And if you do start it up, you could run little trips out to the IPW shows in Sittingbourne, the Hammerlock shows etc.. Also, in a blatant plug for my mate's boozer, get yourself down the Lady Luck. There's plenty of us down there that like wrestling and aren't (too) weird.

[Magnum]

edit: also, I'm surprised that you of all people, Magnum, seem to be projecting these insecurities given that you work at a Uni.

But I'm not writing from the point of view of an emotionally secure 30-year old lecturer who works at a university and can walk around campus like he owns the place because he's been there forever and knows pretty much everybody there. I'm thinking back to what it was like to be an insecure, painfully self-conscious and desperate-to-appear-cool teenager just starting out at uni, maybe having to make entirely new groups of friends for the first time since school. University can be tremendously cliquey and snobbish, and it would be wrong of me to suggest otherwise just because I make a living out of it.Conspicuously admitting that you're a wrestling fan probably won't ruin someone's social life altogether, but rightly or wrongly the perception that it will will put a lot of people off. I wasn't afraid to admit that I liked wrestling when I was at uni, but wrestling was about as cool as it's ever been then and just about everybody seemed to watch it, with varying degrees of irony. I also, however, had the bad experience of attracting an unwanted mong stalker who'd come up to me and talk loudly to me about wrestling in the uni library just because he once saw me in the uni bar in a Rock t-shirt. It's the fear of those sort of situations that will put people off.

[MindGrrind]

Canterbury also has a fucking PIRATE society. I wouldn't worry too much about what people think, just do it. And if you do start it up, you could run little trips out to the IPW shows in Sittingbourne, the Hammerlock shows etc.. Also, in a blatant plug for my mate's boozer, get yourself down the Lady Luck. There's plenty of us down there that like wrestling and aren't (too) weird.

Will do, i've passed it many a time and thought it looked right up my street. Been putting it off as any 'alt' bars back home are very cliquey, but sounds promising.