Jabroni Journal

In just under one calendar year, DEFY wrestling has brought some of the most talented wrestlers in the world to showcase their skills for the local Seattle audience. They booked wrestlers like Lio Rush, Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish just weeks before they debuted on NXT. They’ve featured current...

This past weekend we lost the one and only Bobby "The Brain" Heenan. "The Brain" was a staple of my childhood, as he was the loud-mouthed manager to all the devious bad guys, as well as the color commentator that sat alongside his co-host Gorilla Monsoon. Bobby Heenan was a true renaissance man in...

One of the major wrestling stories from this past year has been the continued push to emphasize the importance of women’s wrestling. In the WWE, we’ve had two different divisions – Smackdown and Raw, respectively – continue to highlight women’s wrestling in a much more positive, competitive and far...

For the past 27 years, Pro Wrestling Illustrated has published a yearly list of the Top 500 wrestlers across the globe. Growing up, this magazine was practically a Bible for me. At first, I would make sure all my favorites were somewhere in the top 50, but considering the fact that this was in the...

This past Saturday, we were given a rare treat, as NXT presented it’s very first live band performance at their Takeover Brooklyn 3 event at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn. As the normal NXT video intro played on the screen, we saw the Philly hardcore band Code Orange performing their song, “...

The end of the summer is always a bittersweet feeling. While our days of shorts and t-shirts, night time barbecues and outdoor concerts might be dwindling, for wrestling fans it means it’s time for Summerslam! This year we have a 4+ hour event with 13 matches. This is gonna be a long one! Here are...

Video of DEFY Presents "THE CRASH Lucha Libre" - SWERVE VS RUSH II DEFY wrestling returns to Tacoma this Thursday night (August 3rd) for "DEFY Presents: The Crash Lucha Libre!" It's all going down at the historic Temple Theater, as the current DEFY, WrestleCircus and CZW Champion...

While the WWE is currently on the road to Summerslam, Japan’s premiere wrestling company New Japan Pro Wrestling is neck deep in their annual round robin tournament – the G1 Climax. It’s the 27th year for the G-1 and this is the battleground where up and coming wrestlers make a name for themselves...

NXT invades the Northwest once again this weekend and I'm STOKED! For those unfamiliar, NXT is the secondary wrestling brand owned by WWE that could be essentially looked at as their version of a "Minor League". But there's nothing MINOR about the majority of the current NXT roster! Some of the...

The Dream Match Samoa Joe vs. Brock Lesnar has been a dream match of mine since I saw Joe step foot inside an NXT ring. For the longest time it felt so far-fetched. Since defeating The Undertaker at Wrestlemania 30, Brock Lesnar has been treated like an undefeatable monster (minus a couple losses...