Faces & Feels

When journalist Jenny Valentish wrote  Woman of Substances , a book about addiction, she noticed that people who treated drug-taking like an Olympic sport would often hurl themselves into a pursuit like marathon running upon getting sober. What stayed constant was the need to push their boundaries. Everything Harder Than Everyone Else  is about those people willing to do the things that most other...

He's' Real, He's Raw, He's August Artois! He was a veteran within 3 months of starting in wrestling, the new American Combat Wrestling Champion after only 7 months! and he's going to Disneyland! So jump in the car with August as he pulls back the curtain on his effortless journey into wrestling and into the winners mindset he's had for his entire life.

Corey's a good dude. Corey's a guy that worked hard for a big company for a long time. But when Corey got injured on the job that big company fired him and left him to fend for himself during the worst moments of his life. This is the story of a man who had to rebuild his life and body from scratch. It was in these lowest moments that his love for deathmatch wrestling inspired him to creat...

JXT is one of the hardest working professional wrestlers I've ever spoken with, he even jumped onto this call with me last minute as he was driving to night 1 of Deathmatch Downunder's 'The Juice Is Worth The Squeeze heavyweight title tournament. He grew up with the life goal of making it as a professional wrestler and despite disapproving parents, sh#tty guidance counsellors, small mi...

Rochelle Rogue is one of the fastest up & comers in the Australian wrestling scene! So much so that Deathmatch Downunder tapped her to debut in the first round of The Juice Is Worth The Squeeze heavyweight title tournament! Listen in to hear how she went from a 16 year old crushing on Zack Ryder to becoming a full fledged wrestling machine!

Callen Butcher was almost at the end of his wrestling career, he was feeling uninspired, uninterested and sitting at home in a city locked down by COVID-19. Reflecting on everything he had done so far he just knew that nobody would ever say that Callen Butcher was their favorite wrestler. So he reinvented himself. He embraced this truth, took up the mantle of 'Nobody' and seized his dream...

It's Deathmatch Downunder All Day Err Day! First up is DMDU's senior official Jay Stevens! We're breaking down the brackets of the upcoming Heavyweight Title Tournament "The Juice Is Worth The Squeeze"

It's full steam ahead to Deathmatch Downunder's Heavyweight Championship Tournament "The Juice Is Worth The Squeeze" and there is no more intimidating entrant than The Snuff King Gore. So gather round and learn how a man who has traveled the world training his body and mind for battle found his way back to the world of pro wrestling.

If you're not familiar it's time to get familiar! It's episode 50 and I'm speaking to the man that encouraged me to start podcasting, ICW No Holds Barred's Voice of the Violence and the host of the Spotlight Series, The Struggles aka Ryan. Tune in to hear the inspiring story of how with a lot of hard work and creativity Ryan went from fan, to part time podcaster, to full time c...

salsaboiii aka Jackson Mann is an Australian graphic designer who found himself at the center of a huge amount of internet drama when former WWE superstar Chelsea Green shared a promo image he made of her. He asked for credit and she would go on to delete the image & block him. Feeling slighted he shared the screenshots and then everything got real crazy real fast. In this episode we get to kn...

Travis is back and we are giving our immediate and impromptu reactions to the Impact Wrestling Rebellion PPV! Was it a good show? Who made their debut? Who is the new undisputed AEW, TNA & IMPACT champion? Is it Kenny Omega or Rich Swann?!? Tune in to find out everything that went down on this history making show! Featuring an unexpected run in from my Dad!

The voice of Explosive Pro Wrestling (EPW) Dean Olsen aka Adam Parry is back to tell us everything we need to know about this weekend's show Collision Course! NJPW Chaos stablemates Mikey Nicholls & Robbie Eagles face off for the EPW Championship in a match with worldwide implications! Tune in now to hear about all of the action! Collision Course goes down this Saturday the 17th of April a...

Ritchie started wrestling at 13 years old! He's one of the youngest veterans in the Australian Wrestling scene but at that same age he started drinking and ended up giving up his dream. At the age of 20 he entered into a personal battle with alcohol that his passion for wrestling helped him win! He changed his life, got sober, returned to Wrestling & opened the very first Deathmatch Downun...

The host of Your Dose of Death podcast Loren Rosenberg is here to break down what WrestleMania week looks like for independent wrestling! We're also delving into his wrestling origin story and why he started his podcast. Then in the main event it's podcast vs podcast for the ICW No Holds Barred Battle of the Tough Guys Tournament! We run through the entire card and our picks! Loser donates...

He's Robbie Eagles, he's the Sniper of The Skies, he's reloaded and he's ready to return to New Japan Pro Wrestling! We're telling tales of our mutual love of Japan and reflecting on some of his most amazing career moments, rewinding all the way back to his first exposure to New Japan Pro Wrestling watching Jushin Thunder Liger as a child, to tapping him out in his debut match...

It's Spicks & specks with powerslams & suplexes! WrestleBrainia returns for the 2021 Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the brain behind the madness Geoff Setty is here to tell us everything we need to know! Teams made up of Australia's best comedians & wrestlers go head to head in a 4 day tournament packed full of hilarious games, ridiculous promos and probably some p...

The reigning, defending, undisputed Faces & Feels Champion Travis returns for his first episode of 2021 and the title is on the line in NJPW's New Japan Cup! Plus there is no way we couldn't touch on AEW's Revolution and the exploding barbed wire deathmatch! Tune in and listen to this fun midstrength beer fueled mess of an episode!

Damian Rivers is Australia's Most Violent Man and he's fresh off proving it in the main events of Deathmatch Downunder's "...and out come the wolves" & "wash your hands". But this is only the beginning, for a long time he's been one of the few wrestlers in Australia flying the Deathmatch flag and now that his opportunity is here he has no intention of letting it...

Michael Lee is one of the voices of New Horizon Pro Wrestling and the man responsible for helping to bring Kulture City to Australia. Kulture City are the leading nonprofit on sensory accessibility and acceptance for those with invisible disabilities. After seeing Brandi Rhodes initial announcement on AEW he reached out across the world to help bring Kulture City to Australian Wrestling! To this d...

In this episode we learn about the secret origins of the up & coming Australian Luchador Del Cano. In this fun, honest & vulnerable conversation Del Cano reveals how he became a wrestler and how the mask he didn't even want helped him overcome childhood body issues and forge himself into the hero he was meant to become. Check him out online here: Twitter: @delcanoFWS Instagram: @delcan...

He's The Brooklyn Anti-Christ, The Scum Lord Of The Underground, The Creator, The Originator, The Pioneer Of The No-Ring Deathmatch, Brooklyn Black Death, The Hipster Heartthrob, Casanova Valentine! And he's on Faces & Feels this week! Cas is going in depth about almost getting stuck in Australia due to Covid19 during his Australian Deathmatch Downunder tour and about DMDU's first...

He's The Deathmatch Honey Badger, He's Neil Diamond Cutter and he's here to shoot the sh#t! We're talking about everything! His origins in backyard wrestling, his first experiences with deathmatches in the first ever IWA Mid-South Prince of the Deathmatches Tournament (which he won by defeating Markus Crane & Jon Moxley!), The ICW Insane8 Tournament, his banger with Lindsay Sno...

The girls from See You Next Week In Space Podcast are back for Part 2 of our bonus crossover series! We're STILL talking about Hulk Hogan's 1991 cinema masterpiece Suburban Commando, a movie that The Undertaker once called "The worst movie ever" and he's in it! So strap on your armored codpiece, clip in your blonde ponytail, shave in a handlebar mustache and meet us THIS week i...

In this bonus crossover episode our hero joins forces with Sarah & Amy from the See You Next Week In Space Podcast! Every week the girls break down the best... and worst Sci-Fi movies ever and this week we're doing just that... What does this have to do with Wrestling? Well it's all about Hulk Hogan's 1991 "Classic" Suburban Commando! Check out See You Next Week In Space he...

This week Jay & Erin from @DMDownunder are talking about how they went from wrestling fans to wrestling promoters, striving to create a brand new exciting, progressive & safe company! Deathmatch Downunder's first show #DMDUWolves premieres on @indiewrestling this week on 28/1/21! So make sure you don't miss out and use the code “DMDU” for 5 free days now! https://t.co/mqZHXpR4pX