July 21, 2020 / By mobanmarket
It’s hard to explain just how much indie wrestling has changed if you weren’t around when it was different, but I’ll try. In the northeast, where indie wrestling as we know it today (as opposed to in general) was really born, it started as a replacement for WWF spot shows. When the national expansion went underway in 1984, all of the local promoters, from Tommy Dee to the Savoldi family, were left without anyone to book talent from. They started running their own shows with unaffiliated wrestlers to draw the same audience. Former WWF stars were usually the key main eventers, and the undercard would be filled with local trainees. Occasionally, a real talent would pop up and eventually make it. Someone like Ted Petty as Cheetah Kid would get attention for his high flying moves. But by and large, it was not really any kind of viable alternative the way, say, Japanese tapes were.
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