J-Rose discusses the commitment of the Naptown All Pro roster.
Indiana is one of the few states in the country that doesn't have a popular independent scene, but Naptown All Pro, which runs out of Indianapolis, is looking to change that.
The promotion, which launched in 2022, consistently featured top names such as Darian Bengston, Calvin Tankman, Hoodfoot, and Rico Gonzalez.
In a new interview with Fightful Overbooked's Indied podcast, J-Rose, the owner of Naptown, discussed the state of the promotion and how every single member of the roster feels like they actively want to be a part of the roster.
“Oh, absolutely. The biggest thing I think about any wrestling promotion as you begin to start it up, you have to want people who want to be there. That has always been my goal with whatever promotion I’m involved in, or at least make people want to get to that point. Even if I’m not the booker or in a position of power, if im video or ring announcing, I want to make people look forward to being there, actively want to be there. I’m very proud to say I think we’ve accumulated a roster of people who actively want to be a part of NAP. There’s some places I know that people go and it’s like, oh, I got to go to insert promotion here this weekend [groans]. Unless they’re really kind of lieing to me, every person that does NAP really, genuinely wants to be a part of what we do and they’ve displayed that. Sharing match graphics, doing promos without even being asked. Them Top Team boys from Atlanta just sent me a promo yesterday and I didn’t really ask anything from them, and they just did it. I’ve come to realize that our team, our NAP team is astronomically smaller than other wrestling promotions attempting to do the scale of things we want to do. It’s gotten a lot better now, but at the beginning of this year I was looking around like, ‘Damn, I’m kind of doing everything, aren’t I?’ We’ve got a lot more help as of recently, specifically going back to our mission, we’ve got a lot of high school students that are a part of the video program that I graduated from at my high school, they’ve started being part of the production at NAP.”
Elsewhere in the interview, J-Rose talked about The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean). Fans can learn more by clicking here.
Furthermore, fans can see Fightful's full interview with J-Rose in the video linked above. Fans can check out J-Rose on social media by clicking here.
