The Indy Wrestling Experience

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...

We're back with another installment of our interview series. This show is especially exciting because the guys from the Cussin' and Discussin' podcast are here!

Join us as we talk to the "Excellence of Elocution" Walter Dixon and Mike Blankenship, PhD about their origin story in wrestling, how they came together as a commentary team and then a podcast team, and their efforts to help create and grow Elevate Pro Wrestling. We also di...

Focus Pro Wrestling presented "All the Way Up" on Sunday July 13 and Indy Wrestling Experience was watching along LIVE.

If you missed the live broadcast, here's a perfect opportunity to get caught up! Join us as we react in real time to an amazing show. Check out this lineup of matches!!!

• Brittnie Brooks vs Kaia McKenna (Women's Title Tournament First Round)
• Leo Sparrow vs Milo Mirra
• Diego Alvarez vs Vinny Pacifico
• Bear Bronso...

We're back with the perfect way to get ready for our first IWX Live Watch Along of Focus Pro Wrestling "All the Way Up" on July 13 starting at 2:45pm. We've got Evan Zalios, promoter for Focus Pro Wrestling with us to preview the show in detail. Listen as we preview all of the matches below, discuss how Evan Zalios became a part of Focus Pro Wrestling, Focus Pro's vision for its fans and its future in the Evan Zalios era of Focus P...

We’re back with a shorter version of the show this week. Bob and Lauryn will be in Texas for AEW All In week next week, so we’re splitting the normal show into two parts. Next week’s episode will be the interview with Evan Zalios of Focus Pro Wrestling as we discuss their upcoming event “All the Way Up,” which takes place on July 13, 2025. IWX will be doing a live watch along of that event on July 13. Watch our social media for mor...

EPISODE #25 - DEGET BUNDLEZ

Segment 1 – News & Notes

• Tully Bertorelli’s deserved Family Feud writing credit
• Noam Dar’s injury
• Night of Champions
• Project X - PWR, PWM, OWR, Matt Wrestling supershow during Summerslam weekend
• Negative One’s GCW debut
• Focus Pro – All the Way Up match announcement
• Attacks on Ray Sanchez/Respect the Craft

Segment 2 - #ANDNEW

• We congratulate 22 new champions crowned last week.

We’re back with a packed episode this week. To start off the show, we welcome Bob’s daughter Lauryn back to review MCW Higher Ground which took place last Saturday at the R.J. Meyer Arena and featured a steel cage match for the MCW Heavyweight Championship, Ken Dixon vs Joseph Keys, Matt Riddle vs Miami Mike vs Brad Baylor in a triple threat, plus the return of Ronnie Zukko. Listen as Lauryn gives her opinions on the matches, the o...

We are back with an episode in flux as some last minute happenings forced us to adjust on the fly. We start the episode with Jon in the car as Rich Buchholtz helps us open the show. Rich tells us all about what happened at RPW Homecoming, the ways in which Homecoming affects storylines moving forward for Destiny V in September, and how he was inspired to announced a Women's Cup tournament which will take place next May at Envision....

We're back this week and we're joined by Tully Bertorelli, fresh off of his showdown with Sampson at Marquette Mania 3. We'll discuss what happened in the match and afterward between Tully, The Collective, Sampson and UPW management. In addition, Tully tells us about the inspiration for the new look he debuted at Marquette Mania, possibly writing a book called Tully Talks, and getting chewed out on national television by Steve Harv...

We are back this week after an unexpected week off and we have a packed show for you. We have a really fun and unique interview guest. John D. Crazy Hillbilly joins us to talk about his big match coming up against Nick Hamrick in the Route 33 Wrestling Wild and Wonderful West Virginia Title match and his upcoming appearance at FTC Art of Grappling next month. John D. also tells us how he has to walk to matches because he has no car...

We're back this week with a special watch-along episode. In honor of the passing of hardcore legend Sabu, Jon decided this was his week to be introduced to the DEATHMATCH. So, we decided to watch the recent ICW No Holds Barred show, ICW NHB74 which took place on May 2. The card features Danny Demanto vs Tank, Bobby Beverly vs Nathan Mowery, and the Pillars vs The Rejects in the main event. On top of that, we add another performer t...

Jon has returned from assignment and we’re ready to get back into talking about independent wrestling. We start the show covering some news and notes from the past two weeks, including the eight AAA wrestlers signed to WWE, Fuego del Sol’s new name, and Minoru Suzuki vs Joey Janela coming up at Defy Fatal Fantasy.

Our guest this week is Tully Bertorelli, who will be challenging Sampson for the UPW Heavyweight Championship at Marq...

We’re back…well, Bob is back. Jon is on assignment this week, so we brought in Rich Buchholtz to start the show and he does so in a BIG way. Over the weekend, RPW announced a two-day event called Perseverance, to take place on November 7-8, at Big Apple in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Over those two days, a sixteen-person, single elimination tournament will be held for the title of best in the Midwest and, more importantly, a future RPW...

We’re back with our post-Wrestlemania week show as everyone is making their way back from Las Vegas. One of the first to return was UPW Heavyweight Champion, Sampson, fresh off of his clash with Super Beast at UPW Vegas Vacation last Friday. Sampson will join us to review Vegas Vacation, preview Maquette Mania 3, which takes place on May 17, and give us some history behind Marquette Mania and the Lakeview Arena on the campus of Nor...