Interview with Wrestling Mind Bill Behrens

Bill Behrens has worked for the WWE, WCW and TNA in various compacities. With this interview I pick the brain of one of the top wrestling minds around today.

What was your background before wrestling? And how did you first get involved in wrestling?

I was a Television Syndicator for 20 years or so working with companies like Universal Television (ITC/Polygram), as an independent subcontractor through my company Show Business, Inc., and in the mid-80s wrestling companies began asking me to help out their show on TV starting with Florida Championship Wrestling, David Woods' Continental Wrestling, Eddy Mansfield's IWF, and then in the early 1990s I began working with Jeff Jarrett & Jerry Lawler's USWA (CWA) until it died after being sold in 1997. I also worked with Jim Cornette and SMW as their syndicator at the same time I was working with USWA. Then I started Music City Wrestling with Bert Prentice at the suggestion of Jerry Jarrett, which became NWA Worldwide when I joined the NWA. I then started NWA Georgia which became NWA Wildside which continued until 2005 when I shut it down to join WWE helping star it's Deep South Promotion. I had worked with WWE under contract twice before, and with WCW twice while doing the other stuff. Last WCW contract was when NWA Wildside was a development territory for the company. When TNA started I was offered a job. I left TNA briefly for the WWE/Deep South deal, but when I quit that I returned to TNA in my current position. I also help NWA Anarchy which replaced Wildside.

What are your current duties in the wrestling business?

I book the TNA wrestlers to 3rd party shows and appearances and assist creative in booking the house shows.

Who are the top guys on the independent circuit today in your opinion?