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Evolution
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Or Just the same face with a different Mask?
Words: Rob Sivell
Portrait: Tony Knox
010 heralded the start of a new decade and with it, along came a new independent wrestling promotion. Fronted by revered booker Gabe
Sapolsky, Full impact Pro promoter Sal Hamoui and indy wrestling standout Davey Richards, the evolve promotion was launched. but is it something to get excited about, or have we seen it all before?
Due to the aforementioned three men leading this promotion, it is inevitably going to draw some comparisons with Ring of Honor.
Let’s analyse the promotion to see whether EVOLVE brings anything new to the table. EVOLVE is being built around a mission statement (which sounds a bit familiar). The focus is athletic, highly skilled pro wrestling, where sportsmanship is inherent and respect amongst athletes is required. This draws comparisons with the ‘code of honor’; Ring of Honor’s five original governing rules that the promotion was built around. A good concept, but as it showed in RoH, it lacks the longevity to be upheld when you want to build a hate-filled feud amongst two foes. So I don’t think rehashing it seven years later may be the smartest thing to do.
EVOLVE has also set specific divisions, in which wrestlers will compete. A singles and tag team division has been formed, where wrestles will compete in their chosen domain. In the tag team division, participants wishing to be a tag team must register set
teams, which can be
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composed and interchangeable of trio stable members. This is a good move on the part of the EVOLVE top brass as it stops two random guys being chucked together with no identity, which should give the division more prestige.
Another focus of EVOLVE is to put the meaning back into win/loss/draw records and to establish
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