Kevin and Stacey Talk Kevin's Love of Pro Wrestling

The nation’s most beloved couple, Kevin and Stacey Dooley, join forces this week to talk about their adventures in self-isolation, and more importantly why pro-wrestling really needs to be recognised as the influential theatrical art-form it is...

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Wrestling should be seen as live theatre. It involves choreography, story-telling and showmanship. It’s remarkably similar to the format of dance in terms of entertainment and spectacle.
• One of the most common misconceptions about wrestling is that the fans believe it’s real. Only the very young believe that a wrestling match is a sporting event. The true fans know that it is entertainment.
• Even the greatest showmen in other fields, such as boxing and reality TV, all pay tribute to the effect that wrestling has had upon the art of entertainment.
• Pro-wrestling has had a remarkable influence on every type of entertainment, even in the ways in which we ourselves choose to offer a scripted, crafted version of our lives for the world through social media.
• Due to quarantine, audiences are noticeably missing from wrestling events. Technically it works, but much of the energy is missing. Even performance-based shows such as Strictly Come Dancing are very different experiences without the feedback from an audience.

BEST MOMENTS

‘For me, wrestling is the original and highest form of art and theatre’

‘It’s really cool to be unapologetically yourself’

’Wrestling is Shakespearean!’

‘Without wrestling you have no Muhammad Ali. Without wrestling you have no The Only Way Is Essex’

‘My wrestling name would be The Grim-sby Reaper'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Kevin Clifton Show - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-kevin-clifton-show/id1475650764

Stacey Dooley Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sjdooley/?hl=en

ABOUT THE HOST

Kevin Clifton is a professional dancer who has been performing & competing at the highest level for over a decade. Kevin has worked on shows like 'Burn the floor' & 'Rock of Ages' to 'Strictly Come Dancing' one of the biggest TV shows in the UK which Kevin won in 2018.

CONTACT METHOD

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