Today I share an ‘I believe in Harvey Dent’ style moment.

Among the wide variety of friends I have in L.A., in the past few months I’ve spent more time hanging out with and ‘talking shop’ with friends who are involved with the local MMA and wrestling scenes.  Running in those circles, I guess it was inevitable in retrospect that I would shake hands with Jeff Katz, a passionate wrestling fan and Detroit sports fan who also happened to behind a few Hollywood films you may have heard of (we’ll come back to that).

Anyway, within the last month on WWE programming, one of the last men standing from the Attitude Era, Christian, finally won the World Heavyweight Championship for the first time after 17 years.  (Universally regarded as a nice moment for him and the fans.)  What was not so nice was the length of time Christian would hold the top belt: 2 hours (in show time).  Christian happens to be a friend of Katz, and the incident was the straw that broke the camel’s back for this wrestling fan.

I can’t sell his pitch better than he can sell it himself, but here’s the short version.  WWE is a monopoly in the wrestling industry and it has been for years now.  Instead of doing what others have done and failed at miserably (compete with WWE on their terms), why not try a different model altogether?  Thus, the Wrestling Revolution was born.

So there’s a short version of the backstory, you can click the link below and here Jeff’s vision straight from the horse’s mouth:

 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/790983338/wrestling-revolution