Backyard wrestling
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| - | '''Backyard wrestling''' (commonly abbreviated as '''BYW'''), is an imitational practice loosely connected with professional wrestling, performed and arranged by usually untrained 11-30 year old males in an unsanctioned and unprofessional environment, | + | '''Backyard wrestling''' (commonly abbreviated as '''BYW'''), is an imitational practice loosely connected with professional wrestling, performed and arranged by usually untrained 11-30 year old males in an unsanctioned and unprofessional environment, though the practice is undergoing some development taking a varying semi-pro form in passing years with few practitioners learning the basics and techiques to present quality wrestling to oppose hardcore stunts; a denigrating part of its past. Females are rarely seen in the activity and only usually play a valet or figure head. |
| - | + | Backyard wrestling is also a title applied to home-filmed and produced wrestling shows, events, matches and videos using typically a camcorder, a developed underground scene which often implement internet, more notiably {{Wikipedia|YouTube}}, for promotional viewership to their videos as well as other promotional publications. Noting that backyard wrestling was not unheard of before the 1990's, the modern backyard wrestling "craze" last roughly from 1996-2001, in the duration of professional wrestling's boom period commonly refered to as the {{Wikipedia|Monday Night Wars}} between rival competitors, {{Wikipedia|World Wrestling Entertainment}} and {{Wikipedia|World Championship Wrestling}}. | |
==Inception== | ==Inception== | ||
Revision as of 13:48, 17 January 2009
Backyard wrestling (commonly abbreviated as BYW), is an imitational practice loosely connected with professional wrestling, performed and arranged by usually untrained 11-30 year old males in an unsanctioned and unprofessional environment, though the practice is undergoing some development taking a varying semi-pro form in passing years with few practitioners learning the basics and techiques to present quality wrestling to oppose hardcore stunts; a denigrating part of its past. Females are rarely seen in the activity and only usually play a valet or figure head.
Backyard wrestling is also a title applied to home-filmed and produced wrestling shows, events, matches and videos using typically a camcorder, a developed underground scene which often implement internet, more notiably YouTube, for promotional viewership to their videos as well as other promotional publications. Noting that backyard wrestling was not unheard of before the 1990's, the modern backyard wrestling "craze" last roughly from 1996-2001, in the duration of professional wrestling's boom period commonly refered to as the Monday Night Wars between rival competitors, World Wrestling Entertainment and World Championship Wrestling.
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Inception
The beginning of the backyard wrestling era is believed to have started prior to the 1990's though there isn't specific evidence. Many believed it sparked long before that time, particular since the 1950's. The 1980's is clearly the year professional wrestling was exploited to the mainstream and gained abundant popularity after Hulk Hogan bodyslammed Andre The Giant on the canvas floor at WrestleMania III, erupting audience in the arena and around the world in sheer dismay. Following that occurence, backyard wrestling officially debuted and gained the media attention for its safe professionalism.
