I know I’m probably the only person on here who doesn’t know the answer to this question, but when a wrestler is referred to as a ‘shooter’ what does that actually mean?
The skills described here can all be practised these days inside a steel cage.
It remains intriguing that, in the years we discuss, shooters and rippers and the like all seemed to congregate in the staged world of professional wrestling.
I think we wrote in the editorial, when we started this site, "Sport or Spectacle", that real competitiveness had to exist for "poster inches". Fame, glory, money.
It's fascinating how it worked so well. It shouldn't really have! But lots must have got out of control. If I am right, we still haven't really made much progress in uncovering real rivalries and the real shooters running riot.
The only bout that sticks in my mind and that we can still see today is John Naylor in the Fanfare for Europe bout against Jacky Rickard.
The skills described here can all be practised these days inside a steel cage.
It remains intriguing that, in the years we discuss, shooters and rippers and the like all seemed to congregate in the staged world of professional wrestling.
I think we wrote in the editorial, when we started this site, "Sport or Spectacle", that real competitiveness had to exist for "poster inches". Fame, glory, money.
It's fascinating how it worked so well. It shouldn't really have! But lots must have got out of control. If I am right, we still haven't really made much progress in uncovering real rivalries and the real shooters running riot.
The only bout that sticks in my mind and that we can still see today is John Naylor in the Fanfare for Europe bout against Jacky Rickard.