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Monday December 4 2023 - Visit from CanWrestle	Blog entry
I had the honor of having a visit from CanWrestle (id 9693) who was in town for a match. I had a lingering cough so I skipped my portion of the match, but he asked me to be behind the scene by being his personal cameraman. His opponent was Mickey Knoxx, who has previously wrestled for BG East. I was happy to oblige and assist them with their shoot. Unfortunately, you won't get any screenshots, you'll have to visit CanWrestle's Instagram or WatchFighters for that. 😉 Give him some time because they will be some editing and some post-processing to do. I had a supper with CanWrestle after the match and we discussed something very interesting about how social media has heavily changed the wrestling community. For example, he spoke to me about the pros and cons of WatchFighters (Let's use WF for short). Many wrestlers who don't have the build or the required looks to go and meet and wrestle guys at BG or Thunder's or any other adult pro company... Instead they can find comfort and spotlight in WF by providing their own content. On the other hand, many wrestlers have been complaining that this creates a faction and division in the community where you now have opponents that refuses to wrestle other guys if they won't record the match in order to benefit from extra revenue through selling these videos and getting commissions out of it. It's tough. Some others are complaining that why should the average joe get this limelight, but then again, if one prefers the modeled and chiseled build, they have the liberty of staying on BG and refuse any content they dislike on WF. Alternatively, this allows the average joe to realize their dreams and be a star.... but this reduces the amount of available opponents that just wants to wrestle just for fun without filming.... I do see both sides of the coin and at the same time, you have this oligarch, this now big mega corporation that is MeetFighters and WatchFighters who heavily profits from the content that their users create. The portion they take is relatively small and they do a provide a platform and a service that allows their content creators to reach out to thousands of people who enjoy wrestling. On top of that, the revenue that these creators create will probably be bigger on the long run than if these creators continue to provide their content on WF instead to companies like BG or Thunder's. I guess I could go all day long about this. I do appreciate the site, I do see the drawbacks. I personally don't use it for my content because I have a different way of providing it. I mean as you guys can see, my videos are free, but they are really short and I love to keep them that way. That being said, I still visit the WF site and I do buy usually the niche stuff from other wrestlers that I can't find anywhere else. It allows people to open their minds, expand their creativity and realize other people's dreams and fantasies as well.
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