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Eric Garuda at the birth of Pro Wrestling in Indonesia
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Eric Garuda at the birth of Pro Wrestling in Indonesia
written 11 Jul 2026
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Syd Parker: the instrument is the audience
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Syd Parker: the instrument is the audience
written 1 Jul 2026
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The pest controller who learned to stop taking wrestling so seriously
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The pest controller who learned to stop taking wrestling so seriously
Peak Pro Wrestling written 28 Jun 2026
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Eric Garuda at the birth of Pro Wrestling in Indonesia
written 11 Jul 2026

Eric Garuda at the birth of Pro Wrestling in Indonesia

origins Eric Garuda Indonesia
Syd Parker: the instrument is the audience
written 1 Jul 2026

Syd Parker: the instrument is the audience

origins Syd Parker the Jurassic Punk Australia
The pest controller who learned to stop taking wrestling so seriously
Peak Pro Wrestling written 28 Jun 2026

The pest controller who learned to stop taking wrestling so seriously

origins Mason Stoneheart Australia
Who is Alexis ‘Friggin’ Lee? Inside the rise of Singapore’s top female pro wrestler
SPW written 30 May 2026

Who is Alexis ‘Friggin’ Lee? Inside the rise of Singapore’s top female pro wrestler

There’s a certain kind of wrestler who feels manufactured, that is, polished, media-trained, predictable. And then there’s Alexis “Friggin’” Lee. Unfiltered, chaotic, brutally honest, and somehow still relentlessly driven, Alexis represents something far more interesting: a self-made wrestler from Southeast Asia who carved her place in a global industry that wasn’t built for her. When we sat down to talk, the goal wasn’t to rehash favourite matches or dream opponents. It was simpler than that and harder.Why wrestling? Her answer wasn’t glamorous. It was real.

origins Alexis Friggin Lee Singapore
Show Up, Rise Up, Nish Up!
written 23 May 2026

Show Up, Rise Up, Nish Up!

Nish debuted and created a tagline he blurted out by accident, and no idea what it meant. Through a series of feuds, a room full of people chanting him home, and a mother in the crowd reaching for the ropes on his behalf, he figured it out. Show up. Rise up. Nish up.

origins Nish Australia
Alex 'Yeet' Stevens: Twenty Dollars in an Envelope
written 19 May 2026

Alex 'Yeet' Stevens: Twenty Dollars in an Envelope

Alex Stevens grew up in a regional Queensland town two hours southwest of Brisbane, put his wrestling dream in the same box as kids who want to be astronauts, and then watched a movie about Paige one evening and quietly lost his mind. He debuted in August 2020, has never changed his gimmick, was yeeting before Jey Uso and will tell you so directly, and defines making it by a twenty-dollar envelope he received from a Wide Bay promoter that made him cry in public.

origins Alex Stevens Australia
The Mass Effect: How Jackson Shepard found his place in Australian wrestling
written 18 May 2026

The Mass Effect: How Jackson Shepard found his place in Australian wrestling

Jackson Shepard is a wrestler, gamer, merch hustler, reluctant social media brand, Mass Effect tragic, and self-described smartarse who insists he is not a veteran despite having been around wrestling for the better part of nine years.

origins Jackson Shepard Australia
The golden child: Nate Hunter on the business of being the villain
written 7 May 2026

The golden child: Nate Hunter on the business of being the villain

Nate Hunter is a Western Suburbs Melbourne boy who decided in a year eleven legal studies class that he wanted to be a wrestler. Two and a half years and over one-hundred matches later, he is the villain in most rooms he walks into, a student of the territory era, and a man with very clear goals and zero intention of lowering his voice about any of them.

origins Nate Hunter Australia
The Calamity: MJ Russo and the kid who was always too much
written 3 May 2026

The Calamity: MJ Russo and the kid who was always too much

He was a hyperactive kid who learned to shrink himself to survive high school. He spent years telling everyone he was going to be a wrestler without actually doing anything about it. It took a fight with his brother using words, not fists to finally light a fire under him. Now MJ Russo is the kind of heel who makes kids cry and grown men want to climb the barricade. He wouldn't have it any other way.

origins MJ Russo Australia
The world's end: Doomslayer and the dream he wrote in his yearbook
Tasmanian Championship Wrestling written 2 May 2026

The world's end: Doomslayer and the dream he wrote in his yearbook

Doomslayer is forty-one years old, started training at thirty-six, has wrestled for fourteen different companies across Australia, taken a superkick from James Storm, and is currently exiled from the only wrestling company in Tasmania by his own choice.

origins Doomslayer Australia