Everything about that Kimber Lee/Dickinson incident is remarkably dumb. I haven't seen something quite so dumb in indie wrestling since Deej threatened to hijack National Pro-Wrestling Day and that was pretty dumb. First of all, you agree to do a spot that stupid entirely to create some controversy, but not of the "was that a shoot?!?" variety, more of the "holy fuck that guy is a reckless cunt" variety, trading on Dickinson's reputation as an asshole and trying to play up that no one knows what condition Kimber's in. Then, when things start snowballing way out of control and the whole thing turns into a ridiculous debate about the ethics of intergender wrestling, you break storyline and release a video showing that Kimber's OK. A wrestler involved tweets about how stupid this is and then has to delete said tweets to keep his bookings, while Dickinson tries to ante up only to find that no one gives a shit having concluded that the whole thing's a dumb work. Beyond apologise for their mistake, thus confirming that it was indeed a mistake and not an accident or spot gone wrong, and the whole thing's rendered a useless waste of time that probably dented the promotion's reputation with a bunch of fans. I'll chalk it up to a lapse of judgement, as I do enjoy Beyond's product, but holy shit this was dumb. Also, the fact that Kimber or any other women's wrestler would feel the need to take such risks to get noticed is sad, especially in this day and age when there's a much broader landscape in which women wrestlers can ply their trade.
