ABSURD! w/ Joe Feeney

Episode 23 starts out with a bang, with indy wrestling veteran and star CJ O'Doyle. CJ will be one of the stars on the forthcoming season of Stone Cold Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge, beginning this Sunday night January 4th at 8 PM! We discuss how he wound up with that opportunity, as well as his difficulties in PWU and CZW after the closure of his home promotion, 3PW. We also cover his time up to the present day on the Florida indies, his experiences working for WWC in Puerto Rico, being revealed as the first member of Aces & Eights in TNA, live on Impact, working with Sting and Kurt Angle at that time, appearing live on Raw during a heated segment between Stephanie McMahon and Brie Bella, and so much more! Will the "Irish Lionheart" triumph on Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge? How does he feel about the expanding pro wrestling landscape in 2015? And where would he ultimately like to wind up? We cover all this and more!

Our guest on this episode is my friend, mentor, and one of the most memorable wrestling personalities of all time, "The Quintessential Studmuffin" Joel Gertner! Joel and I discuss his recent appearance on Colt Cabana's Art Of Wrestling, his opinion on the UFC's signing of CM Punk and how they could best use him, working at TNA in 2002, dealing with Jerry Jarrett, returning to TNA in 2010 for the ECW Reunion show "Hardcore Justice," managing the Dudleys again that night, working for WWE for ECW One Night Stand in 2005, his segments with JBL and Eric Bischoff, his first night as lead announcer in ECW, working with Taz, running his own promotion MXW, working for Extreme Reunion/Extreme Rising, his expectations and disappointments with that promotion, Steve O'Neill, and so much more!

On this episode, we have former ROH World Heavyweight champion, former TNA X Division Champion, and former NWA World Tag Team Champion, Homicide! We cover so much in this hour, including his thoughts on some of the sketchier training schools today, Lucha Underground and Konnan, TNA and Destination America, his current physical condition, the famous Homicide vs. Steve Corino feud and will it return, Tommy Dreamer and the House Of Hardcore, the current AJ Styles controversy involving the Styles Clash, working with Jon Moxley (Dean Ambrose) back in 2010, his thoughts on the collapse of Extreme Rising, his thoughts on Dixie Carter, thoughts on Jim Cornette, thoughts on Vince Russo, working with heroes such as Terry Funk and Sabu, his time in MLW being managed by Gary Hart, and his views on his star student Low Ki, along with so much more!

Today's episode features "The Amateur Wrestling Machine" Billy Damiana. We start off with the major topic of the day, CM Punk's signing with UFC. I won't spoil his thoughts on the subject, but suffice it to say, Billy doesn't hold back. We also go into his slightly unstable in ring character, how much of that is a shoot, did the love for amateur or pro wrestling come first for him, his thoughts on former UFC fighter Matthew Riddle transitioning to pro wrestling, who he feels has the best chance to make it among his peers, teaming with QT Marshall this weekend, his influences, who he likes to watch today, his buddy the very large and powerful Nick Comoroto, and his hopes and goals for the year 2015.

This episode's guest is the legendary "Starmarker" himself, Kenny Bolin! While I am very familiar with Mr. Bolin and his history in wrestling, I learned something new tonight: when Kenny Bolin is your guest, Kenny Bolin is the host, haha. It was quite the "stream of consciousness" episode with Mr. Bolin, as we covered a great deal of his thoughts, including his relationship and disagreements/heat with Jim Cornette, his thoughts on John Cena, Brock Lesnar, and Batista, his thoughts on Jerry Lawler as a commentator, various stories from his time in OVW, dealings with the WWE, his upcoming book, and his current ventures with his show "The Bolin Alley" and his "Beats By Bolin" project. Please check out his Facebook page, where you can contact Kenny if you are interested in either his headphones, his shirts, and his DVDs, at facebook.com/starmakerbolin

Special thanks to Falling Red for the use of their track "If You Ain't Down With The Rock"

In this episode, our guest is former 3PW investor and former English wrestling personality, Mr. Mike Hawes! Mike has a hell of alot to say, and doesn't hold back one bit, starting with his early days as a wrestling fan, meeting and working with Sabu, coming to the US for an XPW loop with Sabu, and never leaving! From there we talk about his involvement as an investor with Pro Pain Pro Wrestling (3PW.) Hawes is not afraid to share his feelings (both positive and negative) on several wrestling performers, personalities, and journalists, including his time at 3PW with The Blue Meanie, Jasmin St Clair, Ruckus, Mike Johnson, Rockin Rebel, The Dirtbike Kid, Danny Cage & The Monster Factory, James Storm & Chris Harris, Kevin Kelly, Jeremy Borash, The Messiah, Smart Mark Video, Sabu, CZW, and a whole hell of a lot more!

Parental Advisory, Explicit Material within!

Referee Mike Kehner has been living his dream since the mid 90s. He's worked everywhere, NWA, WWE, TNA, ROH, CZW, PWU, XPW, 3PW, and most notoriously of course, ECW! We touch on as much of his career as we can in just one episode, including working the ECW reunion shows for both WWE and TNA, refereeing in China, his friendship with Steve Corino, going from referee to wrestler to trainer and back again, the turmoil in the Philly indies after the demise of ECW, and what he is up to currently. It's a great interview with one of the true good guys in the business, and a man full of experience and knowledge.

Our guest on this episode is Mr. Kevin Kleinrock. Kevin has been involved in the business creatively since his late teens, including XPW, Wrestling Society X, Urban Wrestling Federation, Extreme Reunion/Rising, and Masked Republic. We discuss being creative in the wrestling business, Rob Black & XPW, XPW's attempt to take over Philadelphia wrestling, stealing other promotion's talent, XPW's reunion shows and successful DVD business, as well as heat between Shane Douglas and Steve Corino, Wrestling Society X and working with MTV, and we touch upon Lucha Underground, and Kleinrock's future in the business, and his reflections on his run thus far.

Rebel has been in the business since the late 80s, and that includes the tri state area, TWA, Puerto Rico, ECW, WWF, WCW, CZW, 3PW, PWU, and so many more. He is still going strong today, and on this show he gives his opinions on Tod Gordon, Paul Heyman, ECW, CZW, John Zandig, Johnny Kashmere, 3PW, The Sandman, TNA and the Gut Check, and so much more!

"Mr. 1859" Cliff Compton joins the show for this episode, and we cover a plethora of subjects. We talk about Hulkamania Era vs. Attitude Era, his early days training, the genesis of the Domino gimmick, Vince's disinterest in tag teams, was he in Aces & Eights, what are his thoughts on pro wrestling's immediate future, the WWE Network, and finally, what is next for ProWrestlingTees.com's top seller, the self made man, Cliff Compton!