>>11223849Wrestling is a spectator sport by its nature and draws on big crowds for atmosphere. It's hard to enjoy it or take it seriously when you have wrestlers cutting promos and talking about world championships and stuff like they really matter, like they're on the world stage, when they're in a half empty arena in front of a couple of hundred people. So many indie promotions suffer from this and it makes them impossible to enjoy for me.
If you draw small crowds it's genuinely better to perform in small theaters, studios, even pubs and bars where you can fill them out, and book it with an undergound fight club type feel. Some promotions did this really well, Lucha Underground for example, ICW who mostly put on shows at bars, early NXT as well. Lose all the sentimental life-changing world stage WWE type bullshit because it doesn't work with a small crowd.
