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He’s your Weirdo Hero, your punk hunk, and he’s returning to Calgary! For the first time in nearly a decade, Ravenous Randy Myers returns to the city where his wrestling career started, as he’s back in Love Pro Wrestling for PRESS START, the promotion’s first-ever event in Calgary. Myers chats with Zak Ralph about his return to LPW, getting back to Calgary, wrestling on AEW Collision, the success of BOOM! Pro Wrestling, and much, much more!

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Returning to Calgary as part of Love Pro Wrestling

“It’s a long time coming. This is my 25th year in wrestling coming up, so to be back in Calgary where it all began, it feels like it’s full circle. Maybe it’s where my 25th year needs to be celebrated. It’s been a long time, like you said, since I’ve been there. 10 years. My first ten years were there, it’s been 10 years since I’ve been back. It feels like it’s been meant to happen.”

Being part of AEW Collision with Artemis Spencer

“I did wrestle two summers ago on AEW Collision, so I guess that would have been my first match, but it wasn’t the independent scene. That was the complete opposite, that was getting a chance on TV. That’s another thing on my list of things that have happened within Calgary, that make Calgary so important to me and make it my home base, and where I started from. It’s part of my DNA is having that match there and during Stampede week. So many of these things feel like it’s all aligned to these moments.”

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Instagram: @theweirdohero

Twitter: @ravenousrandy

It’s been a minute since Calgary saw VIKTOR, but the former WWE Superstar is set to return to Alberta for the first time in nearly a decade. On Friday, March 7th, VIKTOR joins Love Pro Wrestling for PRESS START, the promotion’s debut in the iconic city of Calgary. VIKTOR joins Blair Pacheco of the Grainmaker Wrestling Podcast to discuss his start with Stampede Wrestling, run as the longest-reigning NXT Tag Team Champion in history, and his impending return to Alberta to face Michael Richard Blais.

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Growing up on Stampede Wrestling:

“It was pretty huge, actually, I’d say. When I was a kid – I was born in Edmonton, but I was only there until I was about five. Five or six years old is when my parents moved, and we moved north to Grande Prairie, Alberta, a small town up north there. My neighbours were super into WWF wrestling at the time, so I learned about it right away. I was watching that Saturday mornings, and then Sunday afternoon, we’d get Stampede Wrestling all the time. I’d see such a huge difference in the two shows, but I really loved Stampede Wrestling. Then, one of my dad’s friends used to always go, because Stampede used to come up and travel to Grande Prairie, Alberta when I was a kid. I got to see a few shows live when I was very young. I can’t remember if I was in – I think grade two kind of thing was the first show I went to. Guys like Chris Benoit were on that show. I don’t think Owen was still working back-and-forth back back then, but there were all the Hart brothers. I remember seeing Bad Company there at the first show. Jason the Terrible, Davey Boy Smith at the time was there. It was all super influential on me. I was into wrestling from a very young age, and exposed to it very young.”

NXT Tag Team Championship Reign:

“It was very frustrating, honestly, but to say that is kind of pigeonholing it. Even to explain how the system was working, and how things fell into place. The one thing, it never felt how it looked to me and Konnor, that’s for sure, in comparison to how things came about on TV. Behind the scenes, we weren’t favourites by any means. Bill DeMott spent a lot of time pushing for us, and working with us. I don’t think we were favourites, and we never felt like we didn’t have something to prove every time we went out at the time. In retrospect, to me, that was really good, because I think I work really well under that pressure, unfortunately. Creatively, it just kind of went with however they wanted it to go. We would just kind of do what they wanted to do. Once they jumped on board with both me and Konnor being in Ascension, and everything started to roll – like, even the day we won the titles, the way it was presented to us was honestly terrible. There wasn’t anything nice about it that day, and to go into it is kind of a long story. It was kind of a thing of like, nobody believed in us. We were kind of given an ultimatum. But, like I said, I always felt like that ultimatum was always on the table, no matter what. By the time the end of that reign came about, and we started doing that stuff with Finn and KENTA, it was kind of a relief feeling, because by then there finally seemed to be some trust and faith in what we were capable of doing, and that type of thing. It was a big change in that aspect.”

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Instagram: @vik_the_spacelord

Twitter: @VikTheSpacelord

She is the PWA Heavyweight Champion, the winner of the 2024 Coliseum Tournament, and the Arm Collector: Jessica Troy is here! The PWA World’s Heavyweight Champion joins Spencer Love for an exclusive interview to discuss her upcoming battle with Charli Evans and North Shore Wrestling, Australian Mount Rushmore, shoeys, Grayson Waller, and more!

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The rise of Australian wrestling (02:03)

“For me, it’s a bit of a combination of things, I’d say. We’re just really lucky, and fortunate, that we have coaches and trainers that have traveled the world, and we have world-class training here. So, even at PWA, our training school, we have people like Madison Eagles, Robbie Eagles, Mick Morettii. I’m a coach there now, and I’ve traveled to the States and have been all over training and whatnot.”

“We just have amazing coaches, that have traveled for years and years – like, decades – and they’re just handing down knowledge from America, Japan, the UK, everywhere that they’ve been to. The Australian wrestling scene is very much a strange mix of Japanese Strong Style, maybe there’s some American indie kind of style in here. People have been to Canada and brought back what they’ve learned back there. It’s a really cool mix of worldly wrestling. I think any audience would like it, because there’s a little bit for everyone.” 

Australian Mount Rushmore (11:34)

“Oooh, that’s so hard. That’s four wrestlers, right? My all-time top, the greats? I know Robbie Eagles would have to be on there. He just has to be. Robbie Eagles has to be. I think Tenille Dashwood has to be on there as well. She was one of the first to get signed, and she just did an amazing job. Ricky South has to be on there. Fantastic worker, fantastic wrestler. Can do anything, deserves the world. The fourth one is going to have to be me! Is that allowed? Me and Charli Evans, we’ll share, otherwise, she’ll get jealous.” 

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Instagram: @jessicatroypro

Twitter: @jessicatroypro

An emotional roller-coaster of a week for this man and his fans alike. In his first interview after announcing his retirement, Marko Stunt sits down with Pluggo on Love Wrestling Interviews! Marko details both the bad and the good that led to his decision to retire, and shares his ambitions for Pro Wrestling Adrenaline, the promotion he and his team run in the North MS/Memphis area.

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On his decision to retire:

It’s been something I’ve been trying to avoid. I’ve been dealing with some back issues. I went to the doctor and they did a whole bunch of diagnostic tests and noticed that my right hip is rotating inwards, and is causing my tailbone to shift off to the side which is causing a lot of pain. I was willing let people do some crazy moves to me and I don’t really regret it’s part of who I am and part of what made Marko, Marko.”

His relationship with Jurrasic Express:

“I say this with bias and can’t imagine how many will disagree but I believe we were one of the most dynamic groups in all of wrestling. Honestly, I still think there could be something there.”

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Twitter: @realmarkostunt