WRESTLING FAN ALERT
It is not too many times
that wrestling gets an opportunity to receive pre-meet coverage of any of its
major events in the nation's largest newspaper, USA Today. The Metropolitan
Wrestling Association and its partners USA Wrestling and NYC2012 hosted the
2003 World Freestyle Championships that attracted 12,500 fans to the finals
never received one inch of pre event publicity in any major newspaper let
alone the New York Times or NY Daily news.
For some of you who may not
have seen the article that appeared Tuesday in USA Today is simply quite
amazing. There was a front page listing, a banner with a photo in the Sports
Section and a 3/4 second page story on page 3 with additional 3 photo's about
the 2005 Asics Beach Wrestling Championships being held at Long Beach, Long
Island on Aug. 13th, 2005. If you missed it, click the link and save it as it
maybe the only one of its kind for a while.
As Neil Duncan, a partner
in TW Promotions for Asics stated eloquently when asked what does Asics get
out of this being that the competitors do not wear shoes. His answer was, " I
am in wrestling and anything that helps wrestling is good for Asics and lets
give it a shot."
Wrestling needs to be in
front of people as we do not have enough people involved either as competitors
or as fans.
If we build the fan base,
the competitors will come and we know we have millions of potential wrestlers
and fans in the largest urban centers of America who wouldn't know real
wrestling from Smackdown if they tripped over it.
Please support the effort
by either attending, telling others to attend and if you can, send a
contribution to the beneficiary of the entire event, the USAW/MWA
Beat the Streets Program.
Go to
www.mwausa.org
for more information about the tournament and the Beat the Streets
Program and how you can help building the base of wrestling in the largest
city in the United States. There are well over 1.2 million kids in the
schools today who would love to wrestle. Your small donation would go a long
way to building wrestling in the United States.
Please resend to your
special friends and associates.