Hi all
Apologies in advance for a long post, but I feel this issue needs addressing.
I've been attracted to catfights/competitive female wrestling/unscripted female fighting for around 7 years now. However, it's only been over the past 3 years that I've actually been buying full proper fights from companies (before that it was restricted to YouTube clips).
In that 3 years there has been an abundance of clips and companies to discover; I've bought from DWW, Foxy, Fighting Dolls, East Coast Cats, ECNWC, Fresh Fite, Capital City Catfights, CFH, Vira, Catfight Britain/Bitchfight, Catz, Les Femmes Fatales, Femwin, Modelfight, WRESTLA, Catfight Angels, HCF, Mutiny, Flamingo and probably several more I'm probably missing out/didn't like.
I'm sure most of you have been buying for years and years but for someone who only started 3 years ago there was an absolute wealth of past/present fights to buy. I don't claim to have bought every fight from every company - not even nearly - though I have pretty much every fight that I WANT from all those companies.
The trouble is, right now there doesn't seem to be anything out there - CCC, a promising upstart, has closed; Catz's fights are too short; LFF seems to have moved on to fantasy/scripted; Modelfight is no more, and Femwin's production is slower and often restricted to mixed stuff. Same with Vira. I haven't been on CFH for a while but when I was last there, there didn't seem to be a whole lot of new eye-catching stuff. ECNWC, probably the best of the lot, is too infrequent (fair enough, it is about quality, not quantity).
When it comes to the European ones Fighting Dolls (formerly DWW) and Foxy - I like some of the "different" fights, say the ones in cheerleader outfits or uniform - however, after a while, seeing the same girls fight nude for payment gets a bit boring. All respect to the girls and the producers, and the fans, but when I'm buying from those companies nowadays, I look for something different.
Finally, Fresh Fite are indeed a promising company, with a nice guy producer and fair prices - but the fights REALLY vary in quality and often a fight billed as "competitive fight with lots of animosity" is two girls giggling etc. And perhaps the greatest disappointment to me and many others - ECC, once my favourite company, has now dried up both in terms of output and quality. Competitive, even, hard-fought fights have now become a medley of producer intervention, edits/cuts in the midst of action, one-sided fights, girls who don't seem to really go at it and even terrible sound quality and resolution. Couple that with an obnoxious producer in John who doesn't care about customer responses (I know it's not just me) and it's dead to me.
So my question is - where do the people who buy/collect competitive fights now look to? Is there a new company that I don't know about, or perhaps an old one I've missed? What do producers think? Because it seems like the market is rather empty at the moment, and there's not much to buy. I've had to resort to several customs over the past 12 months, probably about $5,000 worth - without sounding arrogant, the money isn't an issue, but I've found that a custom is hit and miss as a producer can only do so much to achieve one's intangible vision.
Thanks for bearing with me! I look forward to your responses....