Matt Sydal did not appear at two British Championship Wrestling events as advertised over the weekend and the promotion has gone public with his refusal to return his portion of a $1,500 booking deposit. Sydal’s booking agent Bill Behrens returned his $300 portion of the deposit and the thus the promotion claims Sydal owes $1,2000.
The promotion ran the response that Sydal gave them when they asked for their deposit back. “A deposit is a deposit,” Sydal wrote. “It’s so that you can announce and promote me and sell tickets, which you did. I made every effort reasonable to make the show. I let you know as soon as there was an issue and I never intended to make your life so challenging. I don’t have $ to buy myself a ticket. I tried to work with British Airways but they were no help and neither were you. I would have loved to make the shows and collect my pay days. But you get to keep those. I would apply the deposit towards another show which is what reasonable people do.” Follow the promotion online at Twitter.com/bcwofficial.
Powell’s POV: Behrens wrote to BCW that Sydal missed his flight “due to traffic circumstances beyond his control”. At this point, it would probably be best for him to simply return the deposit and move on since it might be difficult for the two parties to do business together. However, in a second exchange run by the promotion, Sydal wrote that he didn’t have the deposit money, so that may not be an option. It’s worth adding that Behrens wrote that the promotion could have paid for a $3,000 flight and still managed to get Sydal to the shows, but they opted against doing so. It’s a tough situation in that some promotions would simply go along with Sydal’s request to be booked on future shows as a make good, but the promotion should also have the right to decline and simply get their deposit back.
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