Hamilton: The State of Independent Wrestling After WrestleMania 37 April 21, 2021 | Posted by Ian Hamilton
Now we’re all calmed down from WrestleMania weekend, it’s a good time to look at the lay of the land when it comes to how the independents performed – and what lies ahead.
“The indies are dead,” they say. “WWE and AEW have taken the cream,” they say. And for that second one, you’re right. But for the first, we perhaps need to reexamine our relationship with independent professional wrestling.
If you’ve started watching wrestling in this millennium, your vision of the “independents” is probably split into two tiers: one of them being the colloquial “super indy”, and the other being shows that draw from a local area with no immediate intentions of growth outside of that area.