Sites Better Than This

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It's always good to share a little love for products you enjoy. So I thought while I'm here today I'd spend a brief moment talking about blogs, podcasts and the like that I happen to be digging at the moment. Digging is a great word.

Marc Pearson

Marc Pearson does wrestling reviews on Youtube. Recently he's mostly been focusing on his Ten Years Ago.. and 1999 Sucked Series, but there's a wealth of content across his Youtube channel. I could watch Marc's videos til the cows come home. It helps that we are pretty good pals, I suppose. Always informative and laugh out loud funny, Marc never minces his words when it comes to terrible wrestling. And you never know when an emergency service vehicle might turn up! You can check out his channel here. 

WrestleRopes

I have so much time for WrestleRopes. I love being able to keep up with results of shows as they happen and WrestleRopes always seem to have the quickest results for British wrestling shows on the web, all in one place. The site looks great and it's easy to navigate to find what you need to know, when you need to know it. It's clear a lot of work is put into keeping the site running, due to the sheer volume of content produced and companies they cover. They've got me out of many a long journeys boredom! Check them out here.

OSWtv

OSWtv is Billy Strachan, our man north of the border. His dedication to getting the word out about Scottish wrestling and supporting the scene top to bottom deserves to be recognised here. The site is updated regularly with interviews with numerous wrestlers and talent, as well as preview, reviews and all other sorts of good stuff. So good in fact that we asked Billy to write our Over the Border series! Check out OSWtv here.

British Wrestling Radio

This is a site that I just don't frequent enough. Put quite simply Deano Mitchell is an inspiration to us all, kicking cancers butt and raising money for anything and everything. The bloke is a machine. His shows are always entertaining, and even branch outside of wrestling. Deano will let you know what he thinks and you won't want to argue with him! You can check BWR out here.

Five Questions With... Dean Mitchell from British Wrestling Radio

After last week's interviews with Northern Irish wrestler Kacey Owens and former WWE and ROH wrestler Matt Striker, this week it's time of British Wrestling Radio host Dean Mitchell to step into the Five Questions With... hotseat.

Name:   Dean Mitchell
Age: 44
Hometown: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.
Known For: Being the owner and presenter of British Wrestling Radio since day one.

1. When did you first get into wrestling and what drew you to the sport?

1974, I was five and watching World of Sport and at 4 pm was professional wrestling and for the next 45 minutes, I was completely hooked and have been ever since. I think I was drawn into it by the fact you had a good guy and a bad guy and I loved booing and cheering at the screen also wanting to to do the same things with my younger brother and we always tried to copy our heroes on screen and I loved all that.

2. Tell us a little about BWR Radio and how it all came about?

British Wrestling Radio is a show that is about promoting all British wrestling no matter where the show is I will mention it every week. It came about after I was listening to a few online shows coming from the USA and no one was talking about the Brits like Regal, Williams, Magnus, all the great British wrestlers and I sat at home thinking I got to do something about this so I typed in Facebook Wrestling and lets see what came up and I saw loads of British wrestling promotions and went from there

3. If you were to build a dream card, focusing solely on British talent, how would it look? 

Mark Haskins vs. Dave Rayne
El Ligero vs. Noam Dar
Project Ego ( Kris Travis and Martin Kirby) vs. Fight Club
Marty Scurll vs. Robbie X
Stixx vs. T-Bone
Kay Lee Ray vs. Britani Knight
The Predators vs. the Hunter Brothers

Just for a start.

4. What are your Top Three matches of all time and why?

British Bulldog vs Bret Hart SummerSlam '92 -  I was there and was and always will be a huge Davey Boy Smith fan and that day was one of the best ever the match had everyone on the edge of the seats with it going from Bret to Davey and back to Bret you didn't know who was going to win and everyone still talks about the match

Les Kellet Vs Leon Arras - This is one of the earliest matches I can remember watching on TV and laughing the whole time and loving Les from this moment on a real wrestler who was twice as hard outside the ring and Brian Glover playing a great role too

El Ligero vs Ego Dragon, Mask vs Mask 2012 - No Ropes in this one and a end to the 2 year feud in Southside Wrestling the place was packed and rightfully so they went everywhere and did everything in a wrestling ring I was drained when coming home after seeing what I just saw a real class match by two gents who are awesome in all matches

5. Where can our readers find your work and what have you got coming up? 

All our details are;

facebook.com/bwrradio
twitter  @bwrradio
youtube   Bwronline for all our past shows
and to listen live its www.bwrradio.com
Interviews are lined up with a few british wrestling peeps at the mo just got to confirm them and thank you for letting me do this a real pleasure

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We'd like to thank Dean Mitchell for a top notch interview, and urge you all to check out British Wrestling Radio as soon as possible.

Next Week: Double Header of Interviews with Erik Vasquez from The Wrestling Chronicle and Michael Kingston.