{"id":29710,"date":"2018-11-03T15:17:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T19:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=29710"},"modified":"2018-11-03T15:17:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T19:17:26","slug":"breed-pro-wrestling-adifferentbreed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/11\/03\/breed-pro-wrestling-adifferentbreed\/","title":{"rendered":"Breed Pro Wrestling #ADifferentBreed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018 the British and Irish wrestling scene is still expanding.\u00a0 Every week it seems a new company is popping up, each with their own vision and story.\u00a0 One such company that has been catching people&#8217;s attention is\u00a0<strong>Breed Pro Wrestling<\/strong>.\u00a0 We reached out to Breed Pro Wrestling recently to find out their story.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breed Wrestling is the latest addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BRITWRES?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BRITWRES<\/a> family. Show number one to be announced later this week. We feel we have found a venue that is the best kept secret on the scene and can&#39;t wait to showcase the very best talent this scene has to offer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/adifferentbreed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#adifferentbreed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BREED Pro Wrestling (@BreedWrestling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreedWrestling\/status\/1044270778294956035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On the 24th of September, Breed announced their arrival to the BritWres scene.\u00a0 Four days later they announced their debut show<em>\u00a0<strong>Sunday Night Yeet<\/strong><\/em> which will take place at the Abbeydale Picture House in Sheffield on February 10, 2019.\u00a0 While Sheffield gets the occasional\u00a0<strong>PROGRESS Wrestling,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Southside Wrestling Entertainment (SWE)\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Defiant\u00a0<\/strong>show, it has no major independent promotion that the Sheffield fanbase can claim as it&#8217;s own.\u00a0 This is something which the four friends behind Breed Wrestling want to change. We spoke with <strong>Mitch Smith<\/strong>, one of the Breed co-owners about why they decided to start up Breed Pro now. &#8220;We are four mates from Sheffield who love Pro Wrestling,&#8221; Smith told us. &#8220;For the last few years, our circle of friends have been jumping in the car and traveling to different promotions. We hit <strong>ATTACK!<\/strong>, PROGRESS, <strong>OTT, Fight Club Pro, ICW, Futureshock<\/strong> and lots more. We fell in love with the communities and made friends for life in each of the scenes that we hit. We would then come home to Sheffield and there was nothing, we get Southside a couple of times a year, PROGRESS come twice a year, we have EBW (<strong>Elite British Wrestling)<\/strong> which are great but are mainly a trainee promotion, but we have nothing which we can call our own.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ADIFFERENTBREED?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ADIFFERENTBREED<\/a> isn\u2019t a slogan or a gimmick for us. It\u2019s something we want to use as a moral compass when promoting and planning Breed Pro. We are Pro Wrestling fans first and want to create a product that we would enjoy. Feel free to kick us if we don\u2019t stick to our mantra. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kG1ESwzwkP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/kG1ESwzwkP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BREED Pro Wrestling (@BreedWrestling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreedWrestling\/status\/1049281079478239232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is clear that a love for pro wrestling and the impact it can have on people&#8217;s lives is at the core of what the Breed Wrestling owners want this promotion to be.\u00a0 This became clearer when they described their aim for what they want Breed Wrestling to be. &#8220;Our aim is to bring World class independent pro wrestling to Sheffield every single month,&#8221; Smith continued. &#8220;We have found a beautiful venue in the Abbeydale Picture House and we are happy to build something special in there. The main aim is to just create a promotion that people can connect with. We want all our fans to be our scouts, we want them to feel part of our breed. Tweet us any talent that should be getting booked and we will give them a watch. We are already booking people who people don\u2019t see much in this country&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=04qigyntxqM&#038;fbclid=IwAR00E2rlyhvZi01tdbkoDdAj3k25sxlR-Fj6RClohBXV4Pwwo0YFbSr7CLg<\/p>\n<p>They weren&#8217;t lying when they said they are bringing in talent that you don&#8217;t see that much in the UK.\u00a0 They have already announced\u00a0<strong>More Than Hype\u00a0<\/strong>(Darren Kearney, LJ Cleary &amp; Nathan Martin) for the World Trios league ,which also includes lesser seen talents like\u00a0<strong>Curtis<\/strong> <strong>Murray<\/strong>,\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong>Kings Of The North\u00a0<\/strong>(Damian Corvin &amp; Bonesaw), as well as central European talents\u00a0<strong>Dirty Dragan, Lucky Kid\u00a0<\/strong>&amp;\u00a0<strong>Andre Carter.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>For their second show <em><strong>Never Fight A Man With A Perm\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(on March 17, 2019), they will bring\u00a0<strong>Raven Creed\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Club Tropicana<\/strong>\u00a0(Captain Sexsea &amp; Aiden Epic)\u00a0to the UK for the first time in their careers.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/IrishWrestling2\/status\/1055476456741130241<\/p>\n<p>Not only is Breed interested in booking newer talent, but they also want to be a promotion that offers a platform for underutilized or underrated young talents. &#8220;We definitely want to invest our capital in bringing in the next big thing as opposed to the last big thing&#8221; Smith continued, and again they are not lying.\u00a0 Their first show, <em>Sunday Night <\/em>Yeet, will see them crown the first ever Breed Pro Champion with a tournament featuring criminally underrated names like\u00a0<strong>Danny Jones, Spike Trivet, Man Like Beano\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>El<\/strong> <strong>Phantasmo<\/strong>,\u00a0as well as more established names like\u00a0<strong>Wild Boar, TK Cooper, Chuck Mambo\u00a0<\/strong>and a newcomer in Germany&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Lucky Kid<\/strong>.\u00a0 They have also announced the New Breed Tournament, which is their effort to showcase the future and give these young talents somewhere else to ply their trade as they continue to develop.\u00a0 Talents such as\u00a0<strong>Maverick Mayhew, Omari, Joe Nelson, Shay Purser, Alec Mikeals, JJ Barker, Connor Mills\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>The OJMO<\/strong> are featured in the New Breed division which we could look back on in a few years time as the starting point of someones rise to stardom.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are on a crusade to bring World Class Independent Pro Wrestlers to Sheffield on the regular. Our first card is super stacked but this is a few names we want to bring to Breed Pro next year <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/workedforCody?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#workedforCody<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xRAD74ILmm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/xRAD74ILmm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BREED Pro Wrestling (@BreedWrestling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreedWrestling\/status\/1050760809733922817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We asked Mitch if Breed was looking to be a platform for the underappreciated or the unknown and he replied &#8220;it\u2019s definitely a mixture of both. Our 8 man tournament has some of the most underrated guys in the country in my opinion. Then we have the New Breed division which I\u2019m dead excited about. A division aimed at promoting up and coming talent, kicking off with Connor Mills vs Maverick Mayhew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want this division to build into something amazing,&#8221; Mitch continued, &#8220;we have the best scene in the world when it comes to the younger guys coming through and now we have doors opening with brands like NXT UK. I can see the talent coming through getting better and better and we hope to be a launching pad for a lot of that talent.&#8221; Breed have put their money where their mouth is, with the booking of Irish and Central European talent as well as young guys who will no doubt love the exposure of having a division built around them.\u00a0 This methodology is something which can help them stand out in the unbelievably crowded British wrestling scene &#8220;We just need to stand out and be different in the talent we book and how we present ourselves and hopefully we can carve our own little niche&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So, our goal was to bring World Class Independent Wrestling to Sheffield every month. Here is the main event. March 17th, St Paddy\u2019s Day <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NeverFightAManWithAPerm?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NeverFightAManWithAPerm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LCVRUcZcFP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/LCVRUcZcFP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BREED Pro Wrestling (@BreedWrestling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreedWrestling\/status\/1056249604335943680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So with two shows announced and numerous exciting talents scheduled to appear Breed Wrestling is one of the most exciting new companies in the UK.\u00a0 They have the potential to build a fanbase in Sheffield that currently is starved of regular high-quality wrestling.\u00a0 If we haven&#8217;t won you over yet we&#8217;ll leave you with Breed&#8217;s closing statement to us. &#8220;We are on a revolution!&#8221; Mitch exclaimed proudly. &#8220;We are on a crusade to make the people of Sheffield as passionate about Pro Wrestling as we are when we go to the likes of Cardiff and Wolverhampton and see all the local community come together for pro wrestling. We definitely want to build a community like that in Sheffield. Pro Wrestling can be quite a reclusive hobby, it&#8217;s so niched it\u2019s hard to find people who share that love, so if we can build that community then I will be one proud man. I have met friends for life in all these promotions and will still be going to just as many shows as I always have, but my message to the people who welcomed me into their communities whilst making towns is to pop to Sheffield and let me welcome you to my hometown. We are always on hand for travel and hotel advice. Fingers crossed on Feb 10th at the Abbeydale Picture House we can start our own legacy and give everyone a show that will kickstart something special.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018 the British and Irish wrestling scene is still expanding.\u00a0 Every week it seems a new company is popping up, each with their own vision and story.\u00a0 One such company that has been catching people&#8217;s attention is\u00a0Breed Pro Wrestling.\u00a0 We reached out to Breed Pro Wrestling recently to find out their story. 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