Should World Series Wrestling expand into Tasmania?
It’s time now for World Series Wrestling to start to look at new markets to host their shows after running successful shows in major cities like Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Australia has many cities screaming out professional wrestling. For example, the wrestling starved Tasmania which hosts Tasmanian Championship Wrestling hasn’t seen major wrestling since 2000 when I-generations Superstars of Wrestling was at Hobart’s myState Arena then the Derwent Entertainment Centre.
The show centred around wrestlers past their prime from promotions such as WCW, WWE (then WWF), and even ECW headlined by former NBA great turned wrestler Dennis Rodman who didn’t appear on the show but was in the state to promote the event.
Hobart’s City Hall was a mainstay of Australian Wrestling in the golden age of wrestling hosting the original incarnation of World Championship Wrestling that ran events all around Australia before Ted Turner created his own version of World Championship Wrestling after taking over Jim Crockett Promotions.
Tasmania would see Australian legends Mario Milano, Larry O’Dea, Ron Miller and many others on a regular basis and Hobart City Hall would be filled. It would be filled again when the now defunct New Age Wrestling ran a one-off show in the mid-2000s. Since then, the only wrestling Hobart, and the rest of the state sees is Tasmanian Championship Wrestling based in Launceston and made their Hobart debut last year to a big crowd in Sorell.
World Series Wrestling could see great crowds in Tasmania running in both Hobart, and Launceston at myState Arena and Launceston’s famed Silverdome. These arenas could bring World Series Wrestling some big crowds and put Tasmania back on the wrestling map as Tasmania has been often forgotten.
It’s not just wrestling that seems to ignore Tasmania other major events have bypassed Tasmania over the years, despite Tasmania having venues that could house good crowds and bring a lot of fans to the events. Tasmania is in the midst of building a new stadium with the hopes of putting Tasmania back on the map for events, but for now Tasmania does have plenty of places to house events.
For example, Hobart’s TCA Ground hosted famed rock group AC/DC for a massive concert in front of a big crowd, there’s no reason that World Series Wrestling can’t get good crowds in Tasmania with a state that loves professional wrestling and has been starved of it for so long.
World Series Wrestling does need to add more cities to expand their fan base and Tasmania is just itching to be part of the action. WSW expanding can only help their exposure and making them grow even more adding more fans and more dates.
News Writer. Living in Tasmania Dave is a lifelong wrestling fan, formerly working for Mix It Up Radio’s Wrestling Asylum Radio program, and Wide Bay Pro Wrestling working backstage and writing articles. Podcaster with 15 years of journalism experience across different sports mostly AFL and professional wrestling, photographer for local footy in Tasmania.
