Indie Wrestler bios on In the Gorilla Position

Alex Stevens

Tue, 19 May 2026 13:25:20 +1000

Alex Stevens is a South East Queensland professional wrestler who spent most of his twenties in a regional town with no wrestling school, put the dream in a box marked things that weren’t going to happen, and then watched a movie about Paige one evening and changed his mind. A Rhodes Wrestling Academy graduate who has been the lean mean yeet machine since August 2020 — well before anyone else was yeeting — Alex competes across Queensland and beyond with a journal full of every match he’s ever had and a very clear idea of what making it actually means. Read his full story at In the Gorilla Position.

Jackson Shepard

Mon, 18 May 2026 19:35:28 +1000

Navigating the Australian independent scene for nine years, Jackson Shepherd occupies the “cool middle ground” between rookie and veteran. A digital media creator and sound production student, Shepherd is a private person who manages social anxiety and functioning autism, yet undergoes a total transformation into a boisterous, “smart-ass” showman the second his entrance music hits.

Shepherd draws on years of retail experience to power his extroverted “full retail persona” at the merch table, bringing a hyper-focus to his storytelling both in the ring and through his Twitch stream. Ultimately, he aims to be more than just “really fucking good” at his craft; he strives to be a legacy of inspiration, proving that persistence can turn a childhood dream into a reality for anyone brave enough to take the jump.

Nish

Sat, 09 May 2026 14:33:00 +1000

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Nish is a Singapore-based professional wrestler competing for Grapplemax Pro Wrestling who debuted in June 2025 and has spent eight matches turning an accidentally blurted tagline into a genuine philosophy. A trained actor and wedding MC who spent years as someone else’s comic relief before finding a stage he could control entirely himself, Nish brings the instincts of a career performer to a character built around one simple idea: no matter what knocks you down, you show up, you rise up, you Nish up. Read his full story at In the Gorilla Position.

Nate Hunter

Thu, 07 May 2026 14:33:00 +1000

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Nate Hunter is a Western Suburbs Melbourne boy who decided in a year eleven legal studies class that he wanted to make people feel the way MJF makes people feel. Two and a half years and fifty-plus 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.

Alexis Friggin Lee

Tue, 05 May 2026 17:41:09 +1000

Alexis Lee is a Singapore-based professional wrestler who has been competing since 2013, when she walked into SPW’s first trial class as the only woman in the room and took a bump nobody asked her to take. Over a decade later she is one of the most widely-travelled independent wrestlers in Asia, having worked across Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, China, Australia, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. Known for her distinctive skull face paint as her alter ego Skelly, she designs her own merch, hustles her own bookings, and does it all largely without anyone in the wider wrestling world paying sufficient attention. Read her full story at In the Gorilla Position.

Doomslayer

Sat, 02 May 2026 12:36:55 +1000

Doomslayer is a Tasmanian-born Australian independent wrestler known for his pink gear, chaotic physical comedy, and a twenty‑year journey from a school yearbook dream to the ring. A late starter who debuted at thirty‑six, he has wrestled for fourteen promotions across Australia, taken a superkick from James Storm, and built a cult following as the “bloody idiot” who will bump off anything for a laugh. Beneath the humour is a thoughtful, relentlessly travelling performer whose promos, creativity, and willingness to get on a plane have made him one of the most recognisable characters in the Australian indie scene.

Frankie Grime

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:25:39 +1000

Frankie Grime is an Australian professional wrestler based in Victoria, competing primarily for MXW across regional Victoria and beyond. Known for his striking horror-inspired face paint, dark character work, and high-energy in-ring style, Frankie has quickly established himself as one of the most distinctive and entertaining performers on the Australian independent wrestling scene. Born and raised in Mildura, Frankie got his start in the backyard before transitioning to professional training and making his debut on the Victorian indie circuit. Since then, he has shared cards with international names including Brian Kendrick, James Storm, and Super Crazy, while building a loyal fanbase through his unique blend of physical intensity and compelling character work — a style rooted equally in his love of horror cinema, black metal, and over a decade of experience as a performing musician. Frankie competes regularly for MXW and has also appeared for promotions including Malice Wrestling and PWSA in Adelaide, with bookings across Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, and the ACT. Whether he’s working a crowd of 20 or 200, his commitment to performance never wavers. Equal parts Nosferatu nightmare and feral showman, Frankie Grime is a name to watch on the Australian pro wrestling circuit.

MJ Russo

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:25:39 +1000

Pete Morgan

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:44:10 +1000

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Pete Morgan has been wrestling for five years. The most significant portion of which has been spent doing death match for DMDU while also training the next wave at Malice Wrestling Federation. He is made of kintsugi philosophy, MMA retirement, light tubes, rugby league instincts, and a degree of self-awareness that has recently led him somewhere important: toward help.

Paddy Fitz

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:43:18 +1000

Paddy Fitz is a heel because being Irish in Australia makes that very easy, he studies wrestling on a treadmill, he wants to do improv comedy classes, and he has a very clear sense of where he is going and why it matters. He sat down with In the Gorilla Position to talk about Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania, the peculiar arithmetic of the Irish scene, what it means to have ego as a tool rather than a flaw, and why legacy matters more to him than money.

Ben Barnett

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:33:04 +1000

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Ben Barnett is a Melbourne-based professional wrestler competing across the Victorian indie scene as the Gambler and Mr. All Night Rod Long. Known for his expressive character work, sharp storytelling instincts, and a Hawaiian shirt you can spot from the back row, Ben has made a rapid rise through Mayhem Pro, Renegades of Wrestling, and beyond since his debut in May 2024. Read his full story at In the Gorilla Position.

Bruno the Kodiak

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:33:04 +1000

Bruno the Kodiak is twenty-four years old, has been training for eleven months, made his professional debut exactly one year to the day after he vowed he would, and drove home from that debut playing his own theme song on repeat the entire way from Melbourne to Ballarat. He is, by any measure, one of the most purely enthusiastic people in Australian wrestling right now. He sat down with In the Gorilla Position to talk about TNA at his auntie’s place, a vow made in an Uber at two in the morning in Las Vegas, the sleeping bear that lives inside a quiet anxious kid from Frankston, and why he wrote someone’s name on his wrist before he ever stepped through a curtain.*

Eleaine Hope

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:30:07 +1000

Selina

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:40:21 +1000

Anna Wood

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:19:04 +1000

Adam Brooks

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Adam Brooks is the most recognisable face on the Australian independent wrestling scene and he’d be the last person to tell you that.

He grew up in Dingley Village in Melbourne’s south-east, a suburb that doesn’t exactly have a history of producing professional wrestlers. The path there began at a neighbour’s house, halfway through a VHS of WrestleMania 2000. The match was the TLC bout between the Hardy Boyz, the Dudley Boyz, and Edge and Christian. The kid watching was transfixed. When Jeff Hardy climbed to the top of a ladder and the flashbulbs popped, something clicked that never unclicked.

TJ Wylde

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What he wants people to say when it’s all over isn’t about titles or bookings or fees. He thinks about George Julio, a figure who’s become something of a folk legend in Australian wrestling circle whose name conjures stories wherever it’s spoken, whose presence in a room makes the stories stop being adequate.

That’s the template.

Not a dickhead. A good bloke. Good to be around. Made everyone feel comfortable. And then he’d get out in the ring and he’d kill you. But it was fun. Everything he did was fun.