Wrestling Friends

This week the Sultan of Style sits down with Justin 'The Hammer' Sysum. Justin has one of the most unique stories of any wrestler who's been on the podcast. Trained as a British Hammer Thrower with dreams of going to the Olympics. He's had WWE try outs, been Adam Rose's bunny, played Hawkeye for the official Marvel stage show all while battling a rehabilitating disease. We talk about all this, plus his very opinionated views on the use of steroids in competitive and non competitive sports.

This week Flash is joined by 'Smash Mouth' Chris Ridgeway. Here they talk about Chris's journey into wrestling and how it was breaking into the business in the North of England. They Chat about his Style of wrestling and his background with mix martial arts. His unique look and where his love of body art comes from. And they touch upon Mental Health something that Chris himself has dealt with and continues to deal with himself. It's an honest and positive with one of the UK brightest up and coming stars.

This week the ModFather is joined by Liverpool's No.1 Zack Gibson. On top of being a human heat machine in the ring, outside the ring Gibson is one of the head coaches of the Fighting Spirit training academy. They talk in depth about that, aswell as Gibson's crazy journeys around Europe and I mean crazy. Then finally they get into Gibson's fued with Kenny Williams that led to Zack capturing the ICW Zero-G championship and of course we touch upon his time on ITV's World of Sport. Gibson's stories are as mental as his level of heat and if you've seen him wrestle you know that's some claim.

This week the Modther is joined by the hottest tag team in the country right now, #CCK! Just one year since his first appearance Chris Brookes returns to your earbuds but this time he’s joined by that lovely Wolf Kid Lykos. Here we get into the Origins of Lykos, where he started and how old he was when he discovered wrestling. We then talk about his journey into pro wrestling and evolution into the one man wolf pack. Finally chatting about how #CCK was formed and how in just a few months they went from being Attack pro Wrestling’s best kept secret to the reigning the British Wrestling Tag Scene. SICK FUCKING PODCAST YOU IDIOTS!

This Week The Modfather is joined by WWEUK Star 'The Righteous' Joseph Conners. Here Flash Chats to Conners about his start into the business and his long time friendship and tag team with Paul Malen as part of The Predators. They Talk about the split from the team and Joe's rebirth as The Righteous one. They also discuss the Vicious Assault Joe suffered which resulted in him losing a third of his left year. And finally they talk about his involvement with WWEUK and whats next.

This week Flash is joined by British born but New Zealand raised women wrestler Bea Priestley. Here they talk about how she discovered wrestling on TV completely by fluke and then became completely obsessed with wrestling instantly. They discuss the wrestling scene in New Zealand and how she found wrestling training. They then get into her extraordinary medical history and how she had to endure and overcome brain surgery. Finally Bea then tells us all about how she traveled over 10,000 miles to England to pursue her dream and began building the name we know today. Its an origin story like no other, don't miss this.

This week Flash sits down with the Pikey Prince WWE UK Star Tyson T-bone. Here Flash dives right into his past and talks about how close he actually is to the gypsy character he portrays. They discuss his training and the time he spent in America at "Killer" Kowalski's school. T-bone chats in great detail about life on the road doing the ring jobs and working on the infamous British holiday camps. and of course they talk about the WWE UK Championship tournament and T-bones upcoming tour with NXT at Download. Don't sleep on this one its bloody great.

This weeks guest is none other than Irish born wrestler Mad Man Manson. If you're new to the British wrestling scene you might not know much of this Mad Man but after this podcast you definitely will. Him and Flash cover his unconventional introduction to wrestling, how he got involved in comedy wrestling and how the wrestling channel helped him branch out to the UK and opened doors for him. The rest I'll let him tell cause it really is 10 years worth of Mad stories covering the length and breath of Europe. Enjoy

This Week Flash is joined by the first ever WWE UK Champion Tyler Bate. They talk about Tyler's love of wrestling and how he got obsessed with the business at a young age. They discuss his start into the grappling world, his rise through the UK scene, being discovered by the WWE and then of course they chat in depth about his incredible matches against Pete Dunne at the WWE UK Tournament and at WWE NXT Takeover Chicago. This is a real honest and humble conversation with the historical First ever WWE UK Champion that you won't get from any other interviewer.

This week the Undisputed King of the Mods sits down with Manchester's own and World of Sport star Sam Bailey. Here they talk about his start into the world of wrestling, how he almost gave up on wrestling completely to pursue a budding squash career and of course we chat about Futureshcok, GPW, Preston City Wrestling and finally how it felt to wrestle in front of 4 million people on ITV's WOS reboot. Sam is genuinely one of the nicest guys I've met in wrestling and from this podcast its easy to see why.

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