Real pain and real community are shown inside Tom Ringsby's new wrestling photozine

The audience in UK wrestling is actively engaged, developing connections with wrestlers, heckling, and providing live commentary. This interactivity allows photographers like Tom to capture candid moments, even getting close to the action. Tom shares experiences, such as a wrestler posing for a photo mid-fight. He emphasizes the importance of independent wrestling as an art form laden with genuine emotion and real stakes, contrasting it with the theatrics of mainstream wrestling like WWE, ultimately hoping to inspire more interest in this vibrant scene.

Much of the audience keeps coming back and developing a rapport with the wrestlers, heckling or shouting advice to them mid-match. It's basically an interactive play with an expertly choreographed fight scene as the climax.

Ultimately, Tom hopes that Rumble inspires people to go check out UK pro wrestling. With a lot of wrestlers transitioning to Hollywood and Friday night smackdowns depending on clippable moments, the more independent wrestling scenes are here to inject pure adrenaline into the overlooked sport - with real performers, real pain, real stakes and real heart.

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