EFFY is trying to change the wrestling world.
Effy is a independent pro-wrestler who wrestles for Game Changer Wrestling and a number of other promotions. He is a huge advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community in and outside of wrestling. Coming up in 2023 in partnership with TNT Extreme Wrestling, EFFY will bring his Big Gay Brunch show outside of the United States for the first time, and they’ll head to the United Kingdom. Recently, EFFY sat down with Alistair McGeorge of Metro where he explained that he has already done more than he expected in his wrestling career, and he referenced his feud with Jeff Jarrett where the blow off took place in GCW at the Hammerstein Ballroom as one highlight. Moving forward, he aims to foster creativity, equality, and acceptance of diversity.
I’ve reached a weird stage in my career where I’ve done more than I expected to do in wrestling, I’ve punched down a lot of weird doors – I got Jeff Jarrett over again after no one gave a shit about him. [Now], let’s make the wrestling environment that you’ve kind of imagined, that embraces creativity, that embraces people of all sexualities and genders and expressions, embraces the fact that diversity adds to stories,
– EFFY via Metro
EFFY continued on and made it clear that wants it to be a place where people can try new things and tell different stories, rather than simply treating the sport as the story itself.
There’s still that little edge to it where we can have a safe working environment and an environment for people to take entertainment in, while also taking risks still and trying new things, and not boxing in what wrestling should be, and treating it as a medium of storytelling versus ‘pro wrestling is this story,
– EFFY via Metro
H/T Fightful
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