If you won't take my advice (Don't work with fats) don't ask me for advice This will be a little ranty, and for that I apologize.   Riding back to the motel now.  All I can say is "holy shit."  If you don't want my advice, young promoters, don't ask me for it! A week or so ago, a friend hooked me up with a young guy wanting to make his way into promoting professional wrestling.  The kid (okay, 28 but to me that's young!) asked me for advice and I only had a few morsels for him.  One was always get good insurance.  Another was always know your target audience and get at least three names they'll know, even if only one is wrestling.  Don't use fatties because they're unreliable and sometimes dangerous.  Guess which one the kid ignored? Well, at least on this show the fatty wasn't a junkie and he didn't hurt anyone.  However, he DID no-show the event with not even a phone call.  Oh, and I forgot to mention:  this gravy dumpster was the co-main event!  This young promoter then learned a hard lesson about the cascading effect of dealing with fats:  A veteran Extreme wrestler who was there for autographs, selling merch and cutting a promo (although his wife usually does the talking) "oh so kindly" offered to wrestle in the co-main in fatty's place, for the paltry sum of three times his appearance fee, and only if he got to go over on the local guy the promoter was trying to get over with the crowd.  Amazingly, the promoter agreed and the next thing I know, this half crazed junkie is in the ring breaking things over the back and head of the guy the promoter originally was going to make the face of the show.  The poor guy had no idea this nut case was going to make things an "extreme" match and hit him across the back of the head with a 2x4 and then jumped off the top rope and hit him in the face with a chair, so he has no interest in ever wrestling for this promotion again.  Needless to say, this promoter lost his ass tonight.  All because he wouldn't listen to me and refuse to not use a fatty.  It's just not necessary to use "giants" (read:  fats) any more in professional wrestling, especially in the indies.