History Main / BackYardWrestling

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* AscendedFanboy: To name a few, Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada, Wrestling/CMPunk, the [[Wrestling/JeffHardy Hardy]] [[Wrestling/MattHardy Boyz]], Wrestling/ShannonMoore, Wrestling/BryanDanielson, Mick Foley, Wrestling/EddieGuerrero, Wrestling/NewJack, Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi, even the Music/InsaneClownPosse and Creator/HardGay all have their roots in backyard wrestling. The "ascended" part comes from them "going legit" and being professionally trained afterwards.

* OldShame: The Ascended Fanboys mentioned above are generally believed to regret their backyard experiences and try to discourage potential wrestlers-to-be from engaging in the practice. Many former backyard wrestlers go so far as to become trainers specifically to help stop other aspiring professional wrestlers from doing backyard stuff.
** [[Wrestling/CMPunk CM Punk]] has had his backyard wrestling experience leave a sour taste in his mouth for very different reasons. He and his brother had started a wrestling promotion during high school that became the mythical unicorn of such things when it actually started making money; it became the cool thing for kids at their school and other schools nearby to go to and events were held in an old warehouse. Punk was ready to move on anyway to attend wrestling training to make a career of it, but the final straw was when his brother embezzled thousands of dollars from the league. Punk left soon after and he and his brother haven't been on speaking terms since. He would say that his time there was fun and confirmed that getting into pro wrestling is what he wanted to do as a career, but he left and went to a certified wrestling school to do things the proper way instead of trying to use backyard wrestling as a substitute for experience.

* SpearCounterpart: Both genders do both, but backyard wrestling is considered such to the more private phenomenon of "apartment wrestling", since most of its participants are female. Apartments gained national attention first, despite their more private nature, because Stanley Weston wanted the news coverage of pro wrestling to be {{sex|sells}}ier. Wrestling/TheFabulousMoolah took advantage of this by having her students pose for CatFight pictures in apartment rooms for Bill Apter's magazine during the 1970s.

* WhereItAllBegan: [[GimmickMatches Falls count anywhere matches]] ending up in a backyard is a rare but amusing occurrence. Matt and Jeff Hardy explicitly invoked this when their TNA feud culminated in "The Final Deletion", a falls count anywhere match filmed entirely in a backyard.

* FanNickname: More like FanHater nickname. The very derogative "yard tard".

* SpearCounterpart: Both genders do both, but backyard wrestling is considered such to the more private phenomenon of "apartment wrestling", since most of its participants are female. Apartments gained national attention first, despite their more private nature, because Wrestling/TheFabulousMoolah had her students pose for CatFight pictures in apartment rooms for Bill Apter's magazine during the 1970s.

** [[Wrestling/CM Punk CM Punk]] has had his backyard wrestling experience leave a sour taste in his mouth for very different reasons. He and his brother had started a wrestling promotion during high school that became the mythical unicorn of such things when it actually started making money; it became the cool thing for kids at their school and other schools nearby to go to and events were held in an old warehouse. Punk was ready to move on anyway to attend wrestling training to make a career of it, but the final straw was when his brother embezzled thousands of dollars from the league. Punk left soon after and he and his brother haven't been on speaking terms since. He would say that his time there was fun and confirmed that getting into pro wrestling is what he wanted to do as a career, but he left and went to a certified wrestling school to do things the proper way instead of trying to use backyard wrestling as a substitute for experience.

* OldShame: The Ascended Fanboys mentioned above are generally believed to regret their backyard experiences and try to discourage potential wrestlers-to-be from engaging in the practice. In particular, CM Punk's departure from backyard wrestling ended up stopping him and his brother from being on speaking terms. Many former backyard wrestlers go so far as to become trainers specifically to help stop other aspiring professional wrestlers from doing backyard stuff.

* AscendedFanboy: To name a few, Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada, Wrestling/CMPunk, the [[Wrestling/JeffHardy Hardy]] [[Wrestling/MattHardy Boyz]], Shannon Moore, Wrestling/BryanDanielson, Mick Foley, Wrestling/EddieGuerrero, Wrestling/NewJack, Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi, even the Music/InsaneClownPosse and Creator/HardGay all have their roots in backyard wrestling. The "ascended" part comes from them "going legit" and being professionally trained afterwards.

* CerebusSyndrome: In 1980s, the big trends in pro wrestling were the cartoonish World Wrestling Federation, the technical wrestling displayed in direct defiance of the WWF and {{camp}} that poked fun at the state of the industry. Backyard antics were a lot less dangerous then, so while there was insistence on being legitimately trained before wrestling professional matches, wrestling in the backyard for fun was seen as okay. Then the 1990s brought the rise of brutal striking and submissions, as mixed martial arts were starting to take off, Wrestling/{{WCW}} struck gold with the Wrestlng/NewWorldOrder, Wrestling/{{ECW}} brought ultra violence never before seen on national television aired outside Puerto Rico or Japan while the WWF found new "attitude". Backyard bouts became increasingly violent and the stance changed to "don't even think of wrestling in a backyard".

[[IThoughtItMeant This game has nothing to do with the]] ''VideoGame/BackyardSports'' series.

* ADarkerMe: A staggering number of gimmicks in backyard wrestling is pretty much just a guy in black clothes who does flashy dangerous moves.

* CerebusSyndrome: In 1980s, the big trends in pro wrestling were the cartoonish World Wrestling Federation, the technical wrestling displayed in direct defiance of the WWF and {{camp}} that poked fun at the state of the industry. Backyard antics were a lot less dangerous then, so while there was insistence on being legitimately trained before wrestling professional matches, wrestling in the backyard for fun was seen as okay. Then the 1990s brought the rise of brutal striking and submissions, as mixed martial arts were starting to take off, Wrestling/{{WCW}} struck gold with the Wrestlng/NewWorldOrder, Wrestling/{{ECW}} brought ultra violence never before seen on national television aired outside Puerto Rico or Japan while the WWF found new "attitude". Backyard bouts became increasingly violent and the stance changed to don't even think of wrestling in a backyard.

* FanNickname: More like FanHater nickname. The very derogative "yard tard"