Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United Wrestling Association

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was no consensus. Mackensen (talk) 16:46, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] United Wrestling Association

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A google search turned up very few decent results for this indy promotion. Major stars have wrestled in many indy feds, that doesn't make it anymore notable than some other promotion. UWA has had DVD releases: that's not enough to keep it either, seeing as how many independent promotions release DVDs on the internet all the time. RobJ1981 22:31, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

• I am the article's primary author. I do not agree with the reasons given for the proposed deletion. The UWA has been in existence for approximately 5 years while owned by Mr. Grubb, which is notable itself considering the current wrestling climate in the U.S. It is true that major wrestling stars wrestle in many indy feds, however in 2006 alone the UWA has promoted matches featuring 8 former WWE stars (including former WWF tag team champion and executive Tom Prichard, who performs for UWA every week), 6 former WCW stars (including Ricky Morton and the original Midnight Express), and 6 stars currently contracted by TNA wrestling (most notably A.J. Styles and Chase Stevens, who reigned as UWA champion for 5 weeks). It was the home promotion of current WWE-contracted developmental talent Devin Driscoll, and several Ohio Valley Wrestling stars compete in UWA semi-regularly. Furthermore UWA is the premiere promotion in the region surrounding Knoxville (3rd largest city in Tennessee). To my knowledge it is the only wrestling organization in Eastern Tennessee (10,000+ sq. mi.) that promotes over 52 live shows each year. In addition to the DVDs, UWA is televised on cable television in the Knoxville area. STFmaryville 00:56, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Do you have reliable sources that verify these claims you've made about the promotion? As it stands currently, the entire article and the sbuject's notability is unsourced and unverifiable - unless you can show us some independent sources that verify what you're claiming, the article will probably be deleted. NeoChaosX (he shoots, he scores!) 05:33, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. As I stated above: having former stars (or current stars of TNA or WWE) doesn't make it anything special. They appear on indy cards all the time. A cable show isn't that helpful either in my opinion, many indy promotions have gotten TV shows... it doesn't make them all notable. RobJ1981 20:31, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. As a worker on the indys, and of the United Wrestling Association, I can verify that they do run over 52 shows a year. You can check my schedule on cmsigmon.com to prove that I am there each week. UWA was also the key factor in the Ricky Morton Benefit Show which you can purchase on Highspots.com It had a ton of names on the card and was filmed at UWA. If you really need more proof, I will dig and get you some. cmsigmon 14:29, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Seems notable enough. All it really needs is some major cleanup to make it look less like a scoreboard and scheduale and more like an article and will certainly help with doing so if needed. semper fi — Moe 19:24, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

• This would definitely make it in an encyclopædia of sports. As for Wikipedia, I vote neutral. 69.140.173.15 20:06, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. -- bulletproof ^3:16 01:21, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.