From the Front Row - 365 Pro Wrestling Recap - 09.01.2026

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Last Friday was a wild one, with Haviko stealing the 365 title by impersonating Inferno and entering a match he wasn't supposed to be in. The Rogues, Elliot Tyler and Casey Ferreira threw away their goodwill with the fans to start down the Road of Darkness in their quest to officially hold the 365 Tag Team Championship belts – belts they stole last week! We have a 5-match card full of shenanigans to get through on this one, so let's get after it.

Another week of 365 Wrestling kicks off with the second episode of Stein Time and our host, Big Sawyer Stein, is using his show as platform for a little Wrestler's Court. Our prosecutor is none other than Thelonious Jovinius Harlequin, coming out to the ring accompanied by his two Ephialteses carrying the 5th Dimension trunk portal. Thelonious is pressing charges against the dastardly Zack Andrews for slicing up The Mittens. Zack is brought to the ring, hands bound, by the returning Princess Petunia. (For the uninitiated, Petunia is a princess in the 5th Dimension and is a sentient Mitten.) The trial doesn't last long because Zack admits his crimes with glee. The jury is the two Ephialteses, which seems kind of rigged against Andrews, and a guilty verdict is rendered very quickly. Thelonious requests Petunia to carry out the punishment but she refuses! She declares her love for Zack Andrews and frees him! Zack is now the heir to the throne of the 5th Dimension and as such he now has command of the Ephialteses, who are instructed to beat down Thelonious with haste. This is a shocking turn of events that has the crowd confused and angry.

Jae-Lynn Hill vs Becky Beech
This match whipped ass. Super fun back and forth between those two. Beech hit a big powerslam, followed by a pretty fantastic running meteroa. Hill kicks out of a three count and gets up to murderize Beech with a heavy clothesline, then battering her with a fury of mounted punches. Hill has a Bob Holly-esque dropick, which is to say a fucking beautiful dropkick. Then Hill hit a fantastic DDT and a lovely crossface that Beech powered through to get a rope break. Crowd support for Becky remains at an all-time high. 365 Nation loves Becky Beech. Beech's short-arm clotheslines hit hard and she laid Hill out with a couple. Then followed them up with a huge pump-handle slam. Match ends after Beech hit a huge X-Factor on Hill. (I should really find out if Becky has a name for her version of this move.) Big win for Becky Beech. Dash Dauntless and the 365 Women's Title feels like it's right in front of Beech now...

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From the Front Row - 365 Pro Wrestling Recap - 02.01.2026

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This past Friday night (January 2), the Victoria chapter of 365 Nation convened at the First Met United Hall for the dawning of a new era. An era filled with WEEKLY WRESTLING as 365 Pro Wrestling started their ambitious schedule of weekly shows in 2026. As going to 365 is one of the few things keeping me sane in an ever-crumbling world and is, quite frankly, one of my favourite things to write about, I figured a weekly recap might be useful, at least for myself and hopefully for some others. These will be quick notes with jokes, casually and quickly thrown down. I'm not a machine and can't get to every single show (I DO have a life, contrary to what it seems like sometimes), so maybe we'll have a guest recapper here and there. Anyways, this exciting new era of 365 Pro Wrestling kicked off with Holiday Hangover, a 6-match card with three title matches. Let's find out what happened!

1. Rad Dad (c) vs Haviko – 365 Global Championship
Haviko is out first. Late last year Haviko traded in all his long built-up good will with the fans and turned heel after he turned his back on fan-favourite Inferno. He's more hated as a heel than he was loved as a face – and he was reeeaalllly loved as a face. Incredible work. Rad Dad has been holding both of the big 365 belts for so long it would feel strange to have him not come out with both belts. That's a lot of gold. The two hit hard, trading back and forth. Haviko hit a fucking brutal ushigoroshi on Rad Dad that only got a two count. Haviko looked like he was going to take control with some dastardy cheating but wait! A wild Inferno appears! He thwarts Haviko's cheating. Haviko ends up on his back prone, and wham! One of the most beautiful moonsaults I've ever seen Rad Dad throw gets him the win. Rad Dad retains! We are happy.

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5 Questions with Rags #92 - Liiza Hall or "Feeling like I run this whole block...Tryna scratch my way to the top"

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On November 15, 365 Pro Wrestling held the inaugural Queen of the Island Tournament in Victoria. It was a landmark evening, featuring 11 women's wrestlers – including the 8 that made up the tournament bracket. When that bracket originally dropped, consensus among the 365 faithful (at least the ones I talk to!) all chose Liiza Hall as the winner. It seemed obvious to us. So, you can imagine our surprise when she lost in first round, albeit after a genuinely incredible match, to relatively unknown Cherry Blossom. Hall came out to cheers, but as the match progressed, we could see the terrifying bully Liiza, the one that it's cemented in all of our heads as a KILLER, come out more and more. When Blossom got the 1-2-3 and the victory, the jammed-packed crowd erupted in joy at the surprise triumph. Cherry Blossom established herself as someone not to fuck with, because everyone who regularly attends 365, and really any indie wrestling company in the PNW, knows that Liiza Hall is not someone to be fucked with. So bright is her star and strong is her ability in the ring, that getting a win over her is a huge step for anyone coming up in the scene.

Hall has been at the forefront of a quiet revolution of women's wrestling on the Canadian west coast. It's a scene that is genuinely on fire and growing at a rapid pace, with tournaments like the 365's Queen of the Island and BOOM! Pro Wrestling's Coco Harriet Invitational putting the spotlight where it belongs. It's a big change from when Hall first stepped into the scene herself. “It's really nice to see how much it's grown in the last 10 years. When I first started wrestling there was probably the same three or four ladies all the time,” reflects Hall, taking valuable time away from her new kitten, Frankie, to talk on an idle Thursday afternoon. “Now I get to wrestle the new trainees from Lion's Gate. I get to wrestle a bunch of people from Portland and Washington. Even here, we have, it might sound like a small number, but even having five or six women who are consistently wrestling in one area is a big deal. It's nice to see more women trying to get into the sport. I love it.”

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5 Questions with Rags #90 - Eddie Osbourne or "Throw fo' fingers up, add a thumb, then make it a fist, Number one draft pick, lead the league in assists"

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If you go to a 365 show now – here on the west coast or out in Ontario where the company also runs sold out shows – it is packed with people seemingly rabid for 365's brand of wrestling. But, of course, what happens currently is just the tip of iceberg, and doesn't happen without all the hard work underneath that no one really sees. “I went in with no knowledge. I had mentors that were wrestlers, but no promoter that took me under their wing to help me out. There was no one to really study and learn from. It was just a bunch of wrestlers trying to figure out how to make this thing work. It was hard to get people in seats. Learning how to get those posters out there, who to talk to about radio, etc. I didn’t know what to do. It was challenging to be the boss of something.” But in the challenges, there's always sprouts of something good to keep you going. “The surprising part was just how much people want to work to help you with getting bigger and better and GROW. I’ve never done PWA or 365 on my own. I’ve had such a community and people behind me. It wouldn’t be here without them. There’s so many of them. There’s phases – sometimes they come and go, sometimes they’re here forever. I’ve had some guys with me since the beginning.”

Osbourne officially had his first match on September 15, 2001. As he approaches a quarter century of wrestling, he's quick to answer when I ask him what keeps him going. “I love it. It’s fun. If it wasn’t fun, I’d quit. If I wasn’t having a good time, I’d leave. There things to learn all of the time, because it’s always changing” This is man who just really fucking loves wrestling, who has grown with wrestling and is always thinking about wrestling. “Wrestling, from when I started to now, is so different, but it’s also so much the same. The goal is the same now, to get the reaction, but the way we do it might be different now. I used to be in faces, trying to start fights, saying some stuff that makes me go 'Oi!' Now it’s maybe a little more tame but also all the fans are here, not as wrestling fans always, but people who want to come out and get away from the world.”

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5 Questions with Rags #87 - Elliot Tyler or "Beloved in Victoria and reviled in Portland - the anatomy of a rising PNW wrestling star."

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As I sit to put the finishing touches on this piece, we are less than one week away from the first 365 show of 2025 in Victoria and there is ONE MATCH announced for the card. But it doesn't really matter because it's a title match, a dog collar match (A famously violent match type) between the living legend Devon Shooter and the champion, our beloved champion – and funnily enough, the most hated guy in Portland wrestling – Elliot Tyler. And when Elliot Tyler is in the main event, people are going to come out.

But it's not just 365 where he overcame the longtime heel champion, Devon Shooter, where he has become a staple. Tyler has been a force in PNW wrestling scene,. I've talked to multiple people who have been to one wrestling show here on the west coast who said that the wrestler that stood out – sometimes the only one they really remembered – was Elliot Tyler. There are few wrestlers I've encountered that just click with everyone in the audience, no matter who they are – be they younger, older or my mom. It could be the entrance music that makes you want to slide down a rainbow. It could be the barking – who doesn't love barking in a pack? It could be evident hydration on he is always displaying. It could be the opportunity to chant “BEEF!” - who doesn't love a good, strong one-syllable chant? It could be his Big E-like combination of an adorable face and silly-yet-hard-nosed demeanour. (I'm putting the following here because this is still a music blog, for now, and I'm not going to assume you know about non-Stone Cold/Rock-level WWE champions: If you need context for this, please do yourself a favour and do a search for former WWE hampion Big E. He rules so hard.)

Beyond all of that, the thing that stands out when Elliot Tyler gets between the ropes is a legimately radiating love coming from the man himself. He looks like he's having the best time, all the time, and it's a completely infectious energy. The kind of energy that drew all of us to our favourite wrestlers when we first started watching. Thankfully for all us watching independent wrestling on the west coast, in the pacific northwest and beyond, a young man stumbled across something that drew him in more than a decade ago. “Honestly, it was just an accident. I was having a sleepover with a buddy and he fell asleep, and I was flipping through channels and I found a rerun of Friday Night Smackdown! and watched it and I got hooked,” Elliot recalls, telling me about his entry-way into wrestling. “It definitely wasn’t the first match that got me hooked – I think the first match was someone who is cancelled now, and they were notorious for never being that entertaining, from 2010/2011, so I’ll let you pick out from the roster who that could be – the main event had Kane and Edge and Rey Mysterio. I was like 'This is crazy. This is everything I want in life. The absurdity of it all.' A lot of people go 'I saw this match and that’s when I knew.' I never had that. There was never a specific moment where I said, “I have to do this.” It just kind of started as me watching, and it turned into me hitting moves on my pillows, which turned into me hitting moves on my friends in the backyard and then it progressed to me getting into a school. It started with beating up pillows, and it went way too far.”

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