[FxcesittingFxghts]

I have been waiting to ask this question the longest but I need to know. I understand that Phil is the founder of TPC wrestling and Festelle site but I have so many questions I want to ask him. I understand he is old and is off the grid for a good reason but I want to know if anybody has any great stories that they can share about him.

[Ian270446]

I have been waiting to ask this question the longest but I need to know. I understand that Phil is the founder of TPC wrestling and Festelle site but I have so many questions I want to ask him. I understand he is old and is off the grid for a good reason but I want to know if anybody has any great stories that they can share about him.

Your understanding is not quite correct. Festelle was started by Phil Ryder and Phil B, and they ran it in partnership for a number of years. It got to a point where they had a difference of opinion on the direction to take the company. Phil R wanted to go down the more erotic route with their productions, while Phil B wanted to stick with wrestling. As a result, they decided to go their separate ways, with Phil Ryder keeping Festelle, and Phil B started TPC. TPC later also established a link with a group in the USA.

[Soulsville]

I would also be interested in hearing how the business got started. Where did they find the ladies to form their stable of wrestlers ? some of them obviously had some vestiges of wrestling training with the skills on show.

Lena & Ayeshia being the two that stick most in my mind  .

[Ian270446]

Prior to Festelle there was a group in UK called Sportsfighters. It was run by a guy by the name of John Brotchie, who, as I understand it, had a martial arts background. John married a girl from New Zealand and moved there and started another Sportsfighters group there. I have no idea if either of the Phils were involved with the UK Sportsfighters in any way, but they may well have been and that could have been the precursor to Festelle.

Somewhere I have a report from a NZ magazine/newspaper on John Brotchie which I will see if I can dig out and post.

[presenterfan]

I remember ASF Enerprises  (think they were the proper letters). Must have been about the middle 1970s.   I think their production were on 8mm film.  Their productions ( can’t remember the titles), one involved six women  all fighting showing lots of leg in their skirts, while another showed various women in one to one matches.   Looking back and judged against what came since, the clashes weren’t that competitive although at the time to see women physically trying the get the better of each other was interesting to say the least.  Fighting women may not have been their only focus.  The company was based in Bognor Regis.