excitment of the sport is not created by people riding on to the stage on large animals.
remember a few years back when the pros were allowed to use props. they looked retarted.
bbing will never be mainstream and it shouldnt. bbin should just continue to please its fans and new ones will come due to their own interest from working out, bbing, etc.
anyway you look at, most people are not interested in bbing competitions regardless of the pyro or whatever else you try to tease them with. its still guys in underwear in oil posing on stage.
espc. with all this talk about steroids in sports, the last thing bbing needs right now is publicity.
one more thing about the price money. sounds like a lot of money for a show with a mostly non-pro's copmeting. why would sponsors invest more in that show, then others shows, where the bbers are actually known?
also, people always bitched how bad bbing was in the 90's (besides the talent competiting). same people always placing in the same shows in the same places. the shows were boring and bbing suffered a great deal of less popularity from the 80's and 90's. well, guess who ran the bbing promoted many of the shows - DeMilia. nothing against wayne, i'm just a bit skeptical about how something can suppossedly be much better with much less talent?