The Indy Wrestling Experience

We're back with the final regular indy-focused episode of the year and, of course, it's our Year in Review with our IWX Awards for 2025. We review our first year as the Indy Wrestling Experience while, at the same time, we each award performers and promotions for having a special 2025 in the following categories:

• Male Performer of the Year
• Female Performer of the Year
• Tag Team of the Year
• IWX Favorite of the Year
• Live Moment o...

We're back this week and making adjustments on the fly! We start the show talking about some events from Wrestlecade, including Jushin Thunder Liger's UN-retirement and Jimmy Hart's megaphone being stolen.

We discuss the recently released IWX Tag Team Top 400, which was released on Tuesday, and give some insight into how the top 10 teams each earned their spots. 

In personal medical news we discuss some less positive updates about ...

We're back this week to, hopefully, help make your Thanksgiving commute a little less painful. We dive back into the changing economic landscape of independent wrestling following the announcement that West Coast Pro Wrestling has formed strategic partnerships with St. Louis Anarchy and New Texas Pro Wrestling. WCPW formerly had similar partnerships with Prestige Wrestling and Deadlock Pro Wrestling. With the announcement that both...

We are back this week and we are tired of hearing people speculate that independent wrestling as a whole is dying without a shred of real evidence. So, we decided to ask an actual promoter for real data on houses, budgets, fan engagement and more to get to the bottom of this rumor.

After first addressing the rapidly escalating situation with the Savage Seduction invasion at Ragin' Pro Wrestling, RPW CEO Rich Buchholtz joins us fo...

We're back after an unexpected week off and the release of the IWX Top 1000 Indy Wrestler list for 2025. After wishing Jon a belated Happy Birthday, Bob offers some additional insight into the IWX Top 1000, to address just a few of the many questions and comments about the methodology.

Congrats to all who made the IWX Top 1000. Believe me, the names on the list were not added or placed lightly. Everyone on this list deserves to be ...

We’re back this week with a huge year-end announcement regarding the IWX 1000 list, coming November 12, as well as top women’s and tag team lists, and year end awards. Check the timestamp for this announcement to find out the criteria for inclusion, plus Jon tells you how insane Bob’s data collection has been in preparation for the best and most comprehensive year end indy wrestler ranking EVER!

We start the episode with guest Ra...

We’re back this week with a wild episode that kicks off with Bob and Jon circling back to the DREAMWAVE show from October 11. Bob just watched the whole show and has opinions about the Buried Alive match, Connor Hopkins’ new sidekicks, Bushwacker Luke, and a slew of great in ring Halloween costumes.

Bob and Jon update everyone on some of the shows from last week’s Control Center, including a weather-related cancellation at Midwes...

We’re back after two weeks off, ready to dive into some wrestling talk! First up, we get to tell you all about our trip to Wisconsin for RPW Destiny V weekend. We had so much fun being able to interview some great wrestlers like Buff Bagwell, Silas Young and more. Destiny V itself was a fantastic show filled with surprises like Ragin’ Rich taking a stunner from Jordan Blu. We got to talk to Jordan Blu and Kaci Lennox at the RPW Des...

We’re back this week as we make final plans for our big trip to Wisconsin for RPW Destiny V. We start this show with RPW CEO Rich Buchholtz who will give us the final updates, the final card, and final count of the handful of tickets that remain for this incredible show. Of course, before Destiny V kicks off at 6pm, Bob and Jon will be at Cricket Wireless on College Avenue in Appleton, Wisconsin for a live podcast with a who’s who ...

We are back this week as we prepare for Indy Wrestling Experience’s first on-location live podcast on September 27, about one week away, at the Cricket Wireless in Appleton, Wisconsin before RPW Destiny V later that evening. Jon and Bob marvel at the people they’re about to meet and speak to out in Wisconsin, discuss their very different travel plans for that weekend, and update everyone on some late breaking news regarding the RPW...

We’re back this week with the discussion we promised. Bob and Jon are joined by RPW CEO Rich Buchholtz and UPW Heavyweight Champion Sampson for this roundtable on the Raja Jackson incident which took place at the Knokx Pro Wrestling School in California. At that time, a seemingly planned spot  and run-in by non wrestler, and son of MMA legend Rampage Jackson, Raja Jackson during a match involving Syko Stu went terribly wrong, endin...

Well, we had to change things up this week after some scheduling issues forced us to move the Raja Jackson Roundtable discussion to next week. Jon and Bob were prepared this time and you guys are in for a treat. This week, we're releasing this preview, the first episode of our new podcast, The Underground Lucha Experience. This podcast will be a watch along of every episode of Lucha Underground from start to finish. The podcast isn...

We’re back and we’ve got a lot to talk about. Mainly because of the situation that occurred over the weekend at the Knokx Pro Wrestling Academy during a livestream. Raja Jackson, son of Rampage Jackson, was supposed to do a run-in on a match involving Syko Stu. However, a backstage incident earlier in the day seemed to have fueled Raja to take revenge. Raja jumped in the ring and attacked Stu with two dozen shoot punches after knoc...

We are back this week, even though we've been battling all sorts of issues. We had planned on bringing you a watch along of the Monster Factory's Larry Sharpe Invitational Tournament 2025 on YouTube. However, due to issues out of our control which will immediately be obvious to some of you, we were unable to complete the episode. We WILL return with part 2 of this Watch Along at a later time, once these issues are resolved. 

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We’re back this week with news of Jonathan Gresham’s medical scare, Priscilla Kelly’s first title since returning to the indies, Mercedes Mone and Athena appearing together at Metroplex Wrestling, and new LJN-like figures from AEW.

Sampson returns to the podcast, as well, to preview this weekend’s UPW show at the UP State Fair in Escanaba, Michigan. Sampson tells us about his history with challenger Silas Young, how he plans to k...

We’re back this week with the news that Joey Ryan had been booked to appear at a wrestling event for the first time in several years. Naturally, a huge wave of opposition formed to anything involving Joey Ryan. Prestige Wrestling got involved in the fight to keep the show from happening at all. Will they be successful?

We start off the show talking, once again, about House of Glory. After Bob and Lauryn saw an insane show live in...

We're back this week with Rich Buchholtz, CEO of Ragin' Pro Wrestling. Rich updates us on the situations with Elayna Black's hiatus and Buff Bagwell's recent surgery. We discuss the impact those events have had on RPW Destiny V, coming up on September 27. In addition, we hear about four new events being added to the RPW calendar for 2026. We also discuss the recent injuries to Draven The Blackbird King, Tom Lawlor, & Scott Stan...

We’re back this week with a match review heavy show. First up, Bob tells us about his trip to Texas for All In week and gives us a brief review of House of Glory Texas, which had Zilla Fatu vs Charles Mason in the main event. 

Next, Bob and Jon talk about their trip to Joppa for the MCW Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup and the stacked ten match card. We’ll discuss this match by match, including the main event Shamrock Cup Final, won b...