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The first couple of years of my career were going fantastic, everything running smoothly. I was the next best thing. Obviously there were problems that were out of my hands, changing promoters and all different things behind the scenes that people don’t see.
I just work hard and do what I’ve got to do and let my promoters and matchmakers handle that part. I basically tell them to get the guy that has the best record that wants to fight.
Promoters saw the potential in me and the value in me. It was because of companies like Evolve, PWG, Progress, and Beyond Wrestling. Those are the big ones that gave me a push and made my name worth something on the indies.
But whether or not I deserved being called ‘King of the Indies,’ I’ve wrestled in many promotions across the US because promoters put a lot of credence in that title.
Based on paper, because of my size, a lot of promoters and hole-in-the-wall indies will book me against the local big guy.
I worked for promoters that I couldn’t stand and they couldn’t stand me. But they knew if they put my name out there, I would sell out for them.
I’m so confusing to wrestling promoters, and I’m used to that, but because I stayed in ECW and learned how to express myself the way, ah, that I could connect with my fans, it made my strong Rob Van Dam character uncompromising… and I owe that to ECW.
They’ve gone to great length to disguise the fact that I’m not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.
Promoters need you. You don’t need them… The boxer has the leverage, and a lot of boxers don’t know that.
I’m a free agent. I haven’t allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don’t need a promoter.
I was watching fights on TV one day with my oldest son and we watched a ring announcer announce a split decision where he gave the winning scores first, so he took away the drama. So my son said: ‘Dad you could do that,’ and the light went off in my head and I decided to contact promoters and got my foot in the door.
When I was a younger guy doing comedy, it was a big struggle. Promoters canceled me out of clubs left and right when I called somebody a dummy or a yo-yo. Then they realized I was different.
Paul Heyman has always been the only guy from the office that ever really had my best interest and really understood me. The other agents and promoters seemed confused why the fans liked me so much, because I was so non-typical for their idea of a wrestler, so they just tried to capitalize on it without owning it.
I don’t want it to be so complicated – promoters, a business plan, none of that.
The biggest cost of my business is competition – promoters bidding against each other to get a tour.
In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.
Wherever technology’s going, we’re cool with it. We’re definitely promoters of kids trying out new stuff.
Promoters believed in me and gave me a platform, and then the fans started believing in me. It went from me trying to show the fans what I was all about to growing companies around the world. I got to be the face of so many companies, like EVOLVE and Insane Championship Wrestling in Scotland.
We believe that the Internet is the live concert promoters best friend although it might have crippled the record label business.
All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.
If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and ‘Python’ achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans – George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it.
Long before social media and even television, enterprising wrestling promoters wisely scouted and signed new stars that would not only help them sell tickets, but also garner publicity from mainstream sports media.
