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NORTH Wrestling's Andrew Bowers - Growing a Wrestling Promotion, Dealing with Competition in the Marketplace, Selling Out Shows without going Bankrupt And Preparing for the Biggest NORTH Event EVER!

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Wrestling Podcast, Wrestling, Aew, Wwe Podcast, Wwe, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In the first episode of new Cultaholic Wrestling series "I RESPECT YOU, BOOKER MAN" Andrew Bowers of NORTH Wrestling goes into the origins of the company, growing the company without losing face (or too much money) and how he's preparing for the biggest NORTH Wrestling show ever at the Walker Dome in Newcastle.


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0:00.0

The whole what culture thing I was fuming about it and I felt like I was going up against them.

0:10.0

If you're getting that person to pay for a ticket, give them a live experience that's worth that ticket.

0:16.0

Even if you are the main draw, you have to understand that the show has to be bigger than you.

0:21.0

I know this is going to pop some people and go the best one.

0:23.4

It's not specifically.

0:29.0

I respect you, Booker Man.

0:31.0

It's what Brian Pillman said that time. That's what I'm now saying to Andrew Bowers from North Wrestling. I respect you, Booker Man.

0:37.0

I think that's the first time I've ever been told that.

0:39.0

Really? You've never been told you. No, no respect for Andrew Bowers normally. No, not normally. no, no. No, no. Well actually no I think there is some respect I pay people on time

0:47.0

That you know what I can I can say that that is a part of you I respect. Yeah. Always pay dead on time that's yeah you know like I can say that that is a part of you I respect. Yeah always pay dead on time. That's you know I will say that to like other promoters if you're going to start a show just make sure you pay people. That's it. It's that easy in it. The biggest issues I've had with with anything I've done in wrestling is just

1:04.1

chasing for money. Yeah yeah I think well there's a thing going on there's a

1:07.3

couple of wrestlers and a couple of people who have worked for shows that at the minute who are

1:10.4

chasing money and I'm like it's not that well yeah first yes you

1:14.8

should pay people obviously really important but also secondly I'm like if you're

1:19.5

a Booker and you want to get and even if you're doing it if you're running a promotion because you want to be friends with a wrestler spoiler I didn't

1:27.7

Arrest the promotion because I wanted to be friends with wrestlers, but if that is what you want to do because there are a few people doing that the best way to do it is to just pay them

1:35.4

Yeah The next day two days later just pay them without getting into the weeds too early because we're going to build to that like surely I always

1:43.6

think surely if you're going to run a wrestling promotion have the money to pay people

1:47.2

before you even sell a single ticket is that is that that's I mean I don't run a

1:51.7

promotion is that the the general practice yeah

1:54.7

definitely or what should be the general practice should be the general practice I

1:57.4

think I probably had enough for the first show that we ran I definitely had enough to put aside to go like okay everyone

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