Our Aims

The British Wrestling Council has several aims.

1) To regulate and aid in the running of professionally run and insured wrestling shows and schools in the UK. For too long pro wrestling in the UK has been receiving a black eye from improper promotions and training schools being set up and run by inexperienced people. The BWC does not aim to stamp this out as such a step would not only be impossible but also extremely self righteous. However the BWC plans to offer those who wish to set up such promotions and schools or who currently run them the correct insurance, guidance and paperwork to insure that their promotion or schools are independently regulated. Such a measure will increase both the safety of all involved as well as increase the standard of what is being presented or taught.

2) To get pro wrestling recognised as an actual sport by Sport England. With the nation wide use of our wrestling syllabus and grading system, the BWC have already made history by being the first ever governing body that can offer wrestling schools Professional Wrestling instructors insurance. Our next aim is to become a recognised sport by working with Sports England. As unobtainable as this goal may seem the BWC has devised a way that this is actually possible and have already made great head way with this seemingly monumental task. The BWC believes that Pro Wrestling increases physical activity, has a positive impact on mental health and provides a unique opportunity for social interaction, particularly amongst many who are not currently attracted to the sports sector or physical activity. By working with Sport England we also wish to open up funding opportunities that will be of benefit to all associated with the BWC.

3) To allow UK wrestlers to finally receives nationally recognised accolades in return for their hard work. By getting recognised as a proper independent national governing body for pro wrestling, the BWC is able to award both students and industry professionals alike, a qualification adhered to by the top promotions and schools in the UK. The BWC is working with the Grapple Group to both insure and pay to grade all of the countries top professionals over the first part of 2010 so that by April, only accredited BWC professionals can appear on BWC insured and approved events. This safe guard’s both the promoter and other professionals from using dangerous and untrained wrestlers on their events. This is of huge benefit for students who wish to get work with promotions around the UK as they can now illustrate their experience level with the BWC grade that they achieved which will be logged on the Honour Roll on the BWC website.

4) To help schools locate Sports Council funding and more coverage in the local and mainstream press. By aiming to regulate pro wrestling as a sport we can finally receives Sports Council funding, a step that will greatly benefit schools and promotions all across England. Being a professional and self regulating industry will also allow us to begin to become fully accepted by the national press which in turn will help all those involved benefit from greater publicity and public interest.

5) To educate new wrestlers about the British wrestling heritage that came before them and to increase their respect for it. By educating the new generation of UK wrestlers about the wrestling history and performers that came before them, we aim to help produce a wrestling scene that is proud of it’s heritage and has respect for those who came before us in order to create a wrestling scene that has harmony between the past, present and future stars of the industry.

6) To donate a percentage of the money we raise to the Retired Wrestler’s Charitable Trust Fund each year. As a way of showing those who have given so much to the UK wrestling scene in days of old in order to lay the foundations of what we have today, the BWC will give a percentage of the money it raises directly to those who did so. This is the younger generation’s way of saying thank you for what took place in order to give them the industry that they have now and in turn allows those who laid such foundations the chance to see that the people who benefit from such work are appreciative.

7) To offer training scholarships to those promising young wrestlers who require financial aid. Each year the BWC will select a number of students to receive subsidised training and mentoring. This is an attempt to make sure that truly talented students who simply cannot afford their training or would progress faster with financial aid will receive such help from the BWC. Each school will put forward those students that they think deserve such aid and then representatives from the BWC select several to form the short list.

8) To offer UK wrestling schools the maximum promotion at the minimum cost. By working with so many schools the BWC will split the cost of magazine advertising in the top UK wrestling publications enabling them to receive increased media coverage which would have previously been out of their reach. This will help increase the revenue of each school and in turn enable them to flourish more than ever before.

9) To create a union between UK wrestling schools and promotions in order to help each other grow. By working with so many schools and promotions the BWC will work as a middle man for multiple companies around the UK in order to begin a chain of cooperation between each other. This chain will help them achieve things that may have been extremely difficult before by sharing each others assets when required. Similar to Joint Promotions many years ago, we wish to become a united front as an industry and one that can be the pride of the world by putting the interests of the whole above the interests of it’s individual parts for the betterment of wrestling’s public profile and continued growth.