During a recent appearance at Wrestling Republic’s Soul Sessions, No Mercy Wrestling’s Bevan ‘The Bastard Son’ has revealed how the company started.
Ever since the world started to recover from the effects of the global pandemic, many independent promotions throughout the world are finally hosting shows once again, while others have risen to new heights within a short time of existence.
The perfect example of the last case is the Welsh promotion No Mercy Wrestling which, thanks to the leadership of its owner Bevan ‘The Bastard Son’, has become one of the most promising and important promotions in all of the Welsh wrestling scene.
After being invited to The Soul Sessions’ final episode of the year, No Mercy’s CEO Bevan ‘The Bastard Son’ has joined Soul to speak about a variety of topics. In one of these, Bevan opened up about how he came up with the idea of creating the company.
About this, he said: “So before the pandemic I was at a training school, I was with them for about two years and then the pandemic hit. We’ll basically stop right, so we had to stop training. Certain things happened where I just felt like I had to move on.
I was looking around and everywhere’s closed and a lot of schools closed down, a lot of schools didn’t re-open, so I was trying to figure out what should I do. There’s nowhere in Wales open, so my only options were travelling into England at the time obviously but, because of the pandemic, that was a no-go.
And then one of my friends, we were just hanging out one night and we were on Zoom, we were doing a Zoom Quiz and all that stuff. So we were just chatting away with a couple of my mates and I was just browsing Facebook randomly and then a wrestling ring popped up on the Facebook Marketplace. And I was like ‘Hey wouldn’t it be funny if I bought this’ you know, just messing around. And then one of my mates were like ‘Why don’t you?’
So I messaged the guy. Within like, literally, from an hour from me messing about it and joking about it to the next day I bought a wrestling ring and I put this thing in motion.
Bevan ‘The Bastard Son’ & The Rise Of No Mercy Wrestling
In addition to what he stated before, Bevan revealed he never wanted to start a promotion or something like that. About this, he said:
“My original plan wasn’t to make a promotion or make a school or anything like that, it was literally because of the pandemic. Because no one had anywhere to train, I was literally just going to buy the ring, set it up in some kind of industrial unit somewhere and just have it there for myself and my mates to train.You know, just because we didn’t have anywhere else to go.
And then it got from that and it turned into an open gym type of idea. I had the ring in a facility, I built a little gym in there, a little promo area with cameras and lights. I myself do music so at the time I was doing a lot of custom entrance music for workers around the UK as well. So I set up a little recording studio in the office there as well, so this is a place where everyone in wrestling can come to for everything they need.
Then it started getting popular, a lot of people were coming in. And within a month people were on me with ‘Start training, start classes’ and I was like ‘I don’t know, I don’t want to get into that, I’m happy just doing this’. But the amount of people that just kept going on my back about starting to train people… it became too much to ignore really, so I was like I’m gonna have to do this. So it turned into a training school.”
Bevan concluded by stating that “I had no desire to do a show whatsoever, because I know how stressful they are. And I had no desire to be a promoter at all, and again I had all these people on my back… and less than a year later here we are, and we’re seven shows in (laughs).”
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