Terminus hopes to revive Atlanta's legacy of pro wrestling. We talk to TheJonGresham and TheEmpBruh about their new promotion, whose first show streams on Fite TV tomorrow.
It’s a week before Thanksgiving and pro wrestlers Jonathan Gresham and Baron Black are talking to a journalist and a radio host in a booth in the back of an East Atlanta pizza place. If you didn’t already know, it’d be easy to tell who the athletes are: they’re the ones eating salads and picking the top off of cheese sticks to avoid all the carbs in the dough. The yahoos wolfing down oversized slices with sausage and pepperoni?not pro wrestlers.
Black is right: wrestling fans are intrigued. Terminus has drawn great interest online since it was first announced in November, and its first show, which is happening at the Salvation Army Kroc Center in Atlanta this Sunday, sold out of its advanced tickets. It’ll befor anybody who wasn’t able to get a ticket or make it to Atlanta—or for any locals who have been scared off by the snow forecasted to fall that day.
The one exception is Mucha Lucha Atlanta, a lucha libre promotion that routinely draws 1000 fans or more to shows at the Espacio Discotheque in Norcross. Mucha Lucha accomplishes that by bringing in some of the top names in lucha libre, and advertising heavily-and almost exclusively-to the Atlanta area’s sizable Latino population. They’re the biggest success story in Atlanta wrestling since WCW, but have regularly flown under the radar for fans who aren’t part of its target audience.
Atlanta is a party town. It’s full of nightclubs. It’s full of bars and event spaces and concert venues and public school gyms. A determined promoter could find any number of locations to run a show in the city. Atlanta Wrestling Entertainment ran a variety of unexpected venues, including, to their eternal credit, an annual show at a local convention for pinball and arcade machine collectors.
When asked to explain what sort of style Terminus is aiming for, Gresham and Black slide into a lengthy, detailed conversation about the last 15 years of independent wrestling in America, the importance of in-ring storytelling, and the hybrid type of wrestling that can be found in ROH, AEW, PWG, and most major indies.In my mind, any combat sport, like boxing, mixed martial arts, it’s more interesting when two distinctively different styles clash.
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