It was with a great deal of anticipation that, this past Wednesday night, I settled down in front of my television with a bag of heavily salted snacks, not just because professional wrestling, and WAW for that matter, had made it to local, mainstream television, but for the fact that I could be on TV!
However, at the end, I did feel a little disappointed with the programme. It had been advertised in TV listings magazines as a documentary about women wrestlers Julia (Sweet Saraya) and Claire (Klondike Kate). However, while Saraya got a great deal of coverage, apart from a few moments of action in the ring, there was no behind the scenes coverage of Klondike Kate.
However, at the end, I did feel a little disappointed with the programme. It had been advertised in TV listings magazines as a documentary about women wrestlers Julia (Sweet Saraya) and Claire (Klondike Kate). However, while Saraya got a great deal of coverage, apart from a few moments of action in the ring, there was no behind the scenes coverage of Klondike Kate.
So with the spotlight squarely on Julia Knight and her family, we were shown her training and with her family, husband Ricky, son Zack, and daughter Saraya. With contributions from TWA promoter Scott Conway as well, we were taken into the life of Julia.
While I must say that it was well put together, especially the one-on-one interview segments with Julia, some of it was obviously filmed for the benefit of the programme. The most interesting piece I thought was the segment where Ricky, Julia and Roy (Zebra Kid) were shown putting flyers through people's letterboxes in Norwich, to promote the October Outrage show. I found this interesting because of what happened with the Yarmouth-Tiffany shows last summer. For those who don't know, these shows were hardly advertised, had a low-turn out, and were cancelled some three weeks before the run was meant to end, apparently with WAW stating that Tiffany's should have handled the advertising for the shows. If they could put flyers through doors in Norwich, why couldn't they do that in Yarmouth?
We were also given expert medical views from psychologist John Acklew, saying that some children found the violence in wrestling disturbing., and president of the Suffolk division of the British Medical Association Gareth Richards made comments on how well-trained wrestlers do run the risk of serious injury.
In conclusion, this was a well presented programme. In the past, such shows have "looked down" upon professional wrestling, and have been somewhat disrespectful of it. However, this programme treated the world of sports entertainment with respect, and Julia Knight came across very well. A little disappointing though, that I only appeared on screen for about a second. But it's true what they say, the camera does add about ten pounds to you. I can't believe I'm that fat!
An interesting note to end on; I don't recall the programme actually mentioning WAW by name. Interesting that.
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