Backyard wrestling

From Bywpedia

Backyard wrestling (commonly abbreviated as BYW), is a controversial 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 with few practitioners learning the basics and techniques to present appropriate wrestling opposing preferably hardcore stunts; a denigrating part of its past. Females are rarely seen in the activity and more commonly 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. It is a developed underground scene which often implements 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" lasted 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.

Practice

Mostly connected to 1996-2001, practitioners of the underground trend conducted matches with a wreckless style that showcased risky high spots (or falls) usually off rooftops and ladders and emphasisized on the usage of weapons that included thumbtacks, barbed wire, tables, plywood, fire, glass, and fluorescent lamps. However, nowadays, there is lessened amount of federations focusing on involving weaponry and "bumps" with a majority opting to increasingly learn professional wrestling moves and perform them as safely as possible. Despite this, it has still come to the controversial concerns and rebuttal of many, primarily professional wrestling personalities.

Backyard wrestling stand as an ambiguous name because as it is often practiced in backyards, it can literally transpire at any location such as parks, fields, garages, playgrounds, vacant lots, warehouses, living rooms, barns, basements, and school gyms