For twenty-five years the backyard wrestling community has known, and loved the Backyard Wrestling Link. Conceived by a group of friends from Australia in 1997, the Backyard Wrestling Link emerged on the web as a simple, but effective tool to help backyard wrestlers find themselves and one another.
As backyard wrestling exploded into the mainstream consciousness in the 1990's, this website and the community behind it literally took on a life of its own. Thousands of backyard wrestling groups and tens of thousands of people participated in the large online community that the Backyard Wrestling Link was spearheading.
This website and the other countless backyard wrestling resource sites were the cornerstone of the backyard wrestling phenomenon. We propped up the massive backyard community by providing an online presence and platform for backyard wrestling organizations to acquire more fans and commercial opportunities.
We were also, in some regards, the "corner store" of the backyard wrestling community. This website was the place where the community met one another, interacted, argued and found life-long friendship. This website is where people grew up, from youth to teenager to man. This website is where people shared and shilled their product, as witnessed in the thousands of homemade music videos that were released on our message board.
This, my friends, is the website that fueled the global backyard wrestling revolution. Make no mistake.
As the new Backyard Wrestling Link enters its second year of its online re-birth we stand committed in bringing this website back to our once former glory. We will soon release a ten-year plan to document, promote and unite the backyard wrestling community.
It is pertinent that we document and recover the early periods of backyard wrestling history before the early period of our sub-culture falls into obscurity. It is even more important to promote and unite the active backyard wrestling companies in light of recent YouTube and Internet censorship.
Each and every one of you in the backyard wrestling community deserves to have your story heard and told. Let's all work together this year to make 2022 the official return of global Backyard Wrestling culture!
- Matt Given (January 12 2022)
One of the fastest rising backyard groups is Beast Twins, with a subscriber count of 250k! Without a doubt, India loves backyard wrestling!
Other examples including Wrestling Reloaded and IP Wrestling show that you don't need a lot of money to get noticed on YouTube. Consistency and creativity go a long way!
Looking for a new backyard wrestling group to add to your favorites? Go no further than PPW from Poland!
This fed was so good I had to ask them if they were indeed a backyard fed! Start with a full event video to see what their events are like! Great wrestling, story-telling and audience involvement!
You'll swear this fed is indy!
