Backyard wrestling (BYW), also referred to as yarding or backyarding, is an underground hobby and sport involving untrained practices of professional-style wrestling, typically in a low-budget environment. (Commonly a backyard) Although not legitimized, backyard wrestling is often organized into federations. Most backyard wrestlers are merely emulating modern wrestling, though a small percentage have experience from enrolling in wrestling school or from referring to how-to guides on the web.
History[edit]
Backyard wrestling (BYW), also referred to as yarding or backyarding, is an underground hobby and sport involving untrained practices of professional-style wrestling, typically in a low-budget environment. Although not legitimized, backyard wrestling is often organized into federations. Mar 26, 2017 The Simpsons decide to wrestle and Caddy decides to cry. How will he handle one of the apparent 'worst games of all time'? Please don't forget to check out the new iOS Orphan Black game here. Pages in category 'Wrestling Games' The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. The Simpsons Wrestling is an all-out, humorous 3-D wrestling/fighting game featuring the characters and locations of the popular TV satire The Simpsons. Players take on the identity of their favorite Simpsons characters as they battle their way to the ultimate title-Champion of Springfield.
Pro wrestling personnel are generally opposed to backyard wrestling. Its peak years of popularity were 1996-2001, during the boom period of professional wrestling notorious as The Attitude Era, when high-risk stunts exerted a strong influence on the wrestling fan base, particularly those performed by Mick Foley.[1][2] In the late 1980s and early 1990s, backyard wrestling often appealed to media as a good-natured topic, but it increasingly turned reckless and ultra-violent, worrying parents and wrestling companies. In response, WWE began airing advertisements stressing the dangers and seeking to deter fans from duplicating the actions seen in their ring.[3]
In addition to actual backyards, backyard wrestling can occur in spaces including parks, fields, and warehouses. Initially camcorder-filmed events were shared person-to-person; increasingly public-access television and the internet have come to be used. It has also broken into the media with several Best of Backyard Wrestling volumes produced, two video games entitled Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home and Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood, and a critically acclaimed 2002 documentary entitled The Backyard, showcasing backyard wrestling under a more mainstream light as it follows several wrestlers and federations from all over the world, detailing the different styles and portrayals of backyard wrestling. In an interview, the director Paul Hough compared The Backyard to Beyond the Mat, but with yarders.[4]
In May 2015, Global News ran a story on the VBW, a backyard wrestling organization in the Pacific Northwest who produce professionally edited wrestling episodes for public streaming services.[5] The segment, hosted by sports director and anchor Squire Barns, follows the crew as they prepare for the release of the organization's biggest event, Yardstock 2015. In 2016, A-List Productions released a 2-hour documentary titled The Link, chronicling over a decade of backyard wrestling beginning in the early 2000s with participants across the United States, Canada, and the UK, as well as their footprint in the professional wrestling business to this day.
Since the creation of YouTube, many companies have gotten their rise in popularity, such as KBW Wrestling, CHW Backyard, and Extreme Showdown Wrestling, as well as countless other federations to help carry out the modern generation. This new era has a more professional approach, with many using editing software and obtaining proper professional wrestling training and gear. These companies have a more global reach towards their audience with the help of the internet as opposed to the DVDs of the past.
Backyard Wrestling Moves
In recent years, backyard wrestling has adapted a more technical, storytelling approach in its style as opposed to the hardcore tone of the past, with the more popular 'crossover' era taking shape of the genre. Mega events such as the popular 'Best in the Yard', 'King of the Yard', 'When Worlds Collide', 'BYW Mania', 'Wrestleution', and 'Civil War' are spectacles in the backyard wrestling community.
On July 4, 2019, Game Changer Wrestling (GCW) hosted a pay-per-view (PPV) event entitled 'Backyard Wrestling', that streamed LIVE on FITE TV, taking place in an undisclosed location in New Jersey, with many of the independent wrestlers returning to their roots.
Television[edit]
- MTV's True Life: I'm A Backyard Wrestler
- Squire's Take: low budget backyard wrestling
- The Ricki Lake Show: 'Backyard Bloodbath!'[6]
Films and documentaries[edit]
- Best of Backyard Wrestling Vol. 1-6
- CNN News: Backyard Beatdown (2006 Hardcore vs Non)
- Traces of Death V: Back in Action
- 'The Link, documentary
- Backyard Wrestling (2002)
- Death Death Documentary (2007)
Video games[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Backyard wrestling. |
Backyard Wrestling Pc Game
- ^Stewart, Saira. 'Mick Foley On Life Beyond the Mat'. ABC News. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
- ^'Mick Foley on Backyard Wrestling'. Rock13. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
- ^'Backyard Wrestlers Beat Each Other Bloody'. ABC News. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
- ^'The Interview February 7 2002'. Backyard Revolution. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
- ^'Low budget backyard wrestling'. Global News. May 15, 2015.
- ^'Ricki Lake: Backyard Bloodbath'. Internet Movie Database. 2001-08-16. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
Simpsons Backyard Wrestling Games
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Backyard_wrestling&oldid=943923490'