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5 Questions with ABJ Billy Avery · ABJ

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  We are back for five questions with ABJ and we are here at the
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  Worldwide Dojo for some High Tension Wrestling taping and I'm
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  here today with. Brave Billy Avery professional
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  wrestler, promoter of Labour of. Love, Labour of Love has a lot
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  of great stuff coming up, especially Mania weekend, so
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  make sure you go follow Labour of Love mostly on Instagram, but
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  we'll get into all that in a moment.
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  So the first question here is what is your current goal in
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  life? What's my current goal in life?
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  Well, for Labour of Love, I think, I think it is probably to
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  be. I want to be known as maybe the
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  number one indie in in the city. I feel like outside, at least
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  when we started outside of the major companies like WWEAW,
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  there was not a lot of wrestling happening in Philadelphia.
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  So, you know, I wanted to create Labour of Love and I hope we're,
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  we're filling that void a little bit.
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  So yeah, I mean, that's my current goal.
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  I I I hope Labor of love continues to grow.
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  Awesome. Yeah.
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  What are you currently doing to achieve this goal?
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  Man, promoting shows, booking wrestlers that I think that are
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  talented on the rise, putting together cards I think stand out
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  and that people want to come to. Yeah, social media, figuring
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  that out, doing the best I can with that.
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  But yeah, I I'm hopeful that if I continue doing that, then
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  labor of love will kind of naturally grow and more people
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  will be aware. Of it, absolutely.
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  What is currently a possible is possibly holding you back or a
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  distraction from your current goal.
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  Oh man, it's a really good question.
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  I mean, I'm not going to, I'm not going to lie.
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  I definitely suffer from some anxiety.
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  I also like I'm diagnosed with like OCD and it's some days are
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  really difficult, especially if you want to put on a show you, I
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  guess in your mind you have a vision for it and it's really
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  hard, especially in wrestling, things come up.
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  They always say the card is subject to change.
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  So when you are, you kind of have OCD like that or you're a
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  little bit obsessive compulsive as I am, it's, it's, it's
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  difficult to kind of navigate that, but do my best with it,
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  yeah. What Who are What currently
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  motivates or inspires you? So I think the the community in
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  Philadelphia inspires me. I previously we've donated all
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  the proceeds from our event after paying talent to various
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  local organizations. That's, you know, I'm never
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  looking for labour of love to be profitable.
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  I have a full time job. Wrestling is really a passion
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  project and if I'm able to give back to the local community that
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  we're having these shows in, you know that that is something that
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  I'm looking to do. The the local community inspires
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  me. Also, just like I'm from the I
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  grew up going to a lot of punk shows, played in punk bands.
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  So kind of the punk, punk rock ethos, I would say inspires me
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  very much too, yeah. And the shows are very heavily
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  mixed with that punk rock vibe and the music and the bands with
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  wrestling and totally and the craft beer.
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  It's everything I love. It's literally everything I
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  love. It's my labor of love.
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  What are you currently grateful for and are you happy?
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  I'm definitely happy. I'm grateful for the people that
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  continue to come out to our shows, grateful for people like
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  you that want to cover it. I'm grateful for the talent that
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  they inspire me to the talent. I'm just I've seen a lot of
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  growth for some of the performers.
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  But no, I mean, without them, without the fans, labour of love
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  wouldn't be possible. So very, yeah.
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  Yeah, well, where can people find and support you?
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  Labour of Love is on Instagram. That's kind of all we have.
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  It's Instagram, I guess was it at Labour of Love PHL?
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  That's really the only place. But on there can get you know,
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  fine the link for tickets, things like that and constantly
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  updating that and find out when our next shows are beyond
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  WrestleMania week. Awesome.
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  Well, that's going to do it for five questions.
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  ABJ, We'll catch you next time. So you stuck around and you're
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  rewarded for your actions. We had the little bonus question
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  here. So one of the things I'm very
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  passionate about is it's, it's not always what the fans see,
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  right? The fans come and they get to
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  sit in the the crowd and they get to, they feel the energy of
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  the locker room. And if you build a good locker
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  or build a good environment, it shows in your product in the
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  show. What is Labour of Love doing
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  differently or maybe similar to other locker rooms you've been
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  in, to make it stand out or make talent want to be there?
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  I mean, I, I think I want Labour of Love to be as inclusive as it
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  possibly can. I don't want anyone talent OR
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  fans to feel like because they're they're gay or bisexual
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  or trans to feel like they're excluded or they don't belong
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  there. That is like my absolute biggest
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  fear. So I mean, I, I lay that down
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  pretty in our talent meetings before the show.
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  I'm like, no sexist, no homophobic, no transphobic
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  bullshit, racist, shit like that.
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  And no, I mean, I think that's something I, I, we pride
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  ourselves on. We want town to be feel
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  comfortable. We want them to be there
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  themselves. Yeah, yeah.
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  Well, that translates to the audience and and I'm really
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  looking forward to it. Please search Labor of Love.
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  There's their shows all the time, but Mania weekends coming
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  up really fast. There's going to be shows
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  Wednesday and Thursday, April. 3rd and 4th at Attic Brewing
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  Company in Germantown, which is I guess northeast and I've.
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  Had attic beer, it's fantastic. I used to do a little beer
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  podcast myself, but they it's like I said, great music, great
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  wrestling, great beer. Come out and support Mania
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  Weekend and support that local independent talent.