10 Wrestling Questions With Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly's Sam Duckworth

10. A Love For Professional Wrestling

So I know you’re a massive wrestling fan already, but I want to start off with a very simple question: what is it that you actually love about professional wrestling?

"There’s two things that I specifically love, and they’re completely different.

I love that feeling of when you’ve just seen a really good match [...] that athleticism and the timing. If you see a great match and you step away from it for a moment and you think ‘wow that is two - or six humans or whatever - putting on a show and it’s completely compelling and captivating'. There are lots of art forms that do that, but I think wrestling doesn’t get the credit for doing that. It’s pure, intense escapism.

And then the other side of it, which I think probably parallels to music, I love how because it’s counterculture and it’s underground, there’s always going to be a sense of the fans, and people who are into, are well into.

It’s touring, you know? I think that wrestling is a touring job, and the independent world of wrestling is compelling, it’s funny, it’s changing a lot, and [...] the music world is being overtaken by the wrestling world (in terms of independent culture) so I love how huge it is for something that’s still ‘underground’."