From the Front Row - 365 Pro Wrestling Recape - 27.02.2026

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I know that there are no guaranteed of 365 shows. You get a Front Row ticket or general admission ticket and it’s first come, first serve for seats. There are very few people who come and sit in the front row for every single Victoria show 365 throws, but the Front Row Crew does. At any given Victoria show, there is a group of crew members who will be there, cheering and buying things (Beer, shirts, 50/50 tickets). We’re almost always the first ones in the door, to get the SAME SEATS WE SIT IN EVERY SINGLE SHOW. So we were a tad rattled when we were once again the first people through the doors only to find that seats had been blocked off the middle of the row we call our wrestling home. Like, we still had seats and it was all fine in the end, but we weren’t able to sit together and it started our night on a pretty sour note. And while we got some good wrestling, the overall show was one of the most lacking 365 shows I’ve ever been witness to. It was a show where mic-time was equal to in-ring time. This one was NOT one for the sickos, as we say.

Katlin Smith vs Eddie Osbourne (c) – 365 Pro Wrestling Championship
Eddie comes out to a chorus of boos and “No More Beer” chants, fully embracing his heelness now. Katlin, a beloved member of the 365 family, came out fired up for this one. Before the bell rang Eddie once again pointed to the audience to pre-emptively blame us for the violence he was about to inflict. And inflict violence Eddie did. Osbourne hit Smith with deadlift jackknife powerbomb that hurt me watching it. Then he hit Smith with some chops that echoed through the halls of Valhalla. Katlin fought hard and got more offence in on the big man that anticipated, including a fucking lovely top rope clothesline. But in the end, Osbourne was just too overwhelming, finishing off Smith with his driver. Luckily for Smith, Eddie wasn’t in the mood to do that thing he does when he continues delivering drivers after the match ends.

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From the Front Row - 365 Pro Wrestling Recap - 20.02.2026

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Another Friday, another 365 Pro Wrestling throwdown. Apparently there's been a round robin tournament for the 365 Cup that a bunch of us were unaware was happening. Luckily we got some clarifying announcements and the round robin is nearly done. The winner will win the 365 Cup and get a title shot, I believe? I could be wrong on this. I have a hard time hearing a lot of the mic work from years of working at and covering concerts. Protect your fucking ears, kids.

DJ Kash vs Sawyer Stein

Very stoked for this one as I'm always a big fan of a Face vs Face opener and these two are both big time good guys. Starting out with some solid grappling – haven't seen headlock-trading look so good in a minute. Kash hits a shockingly large shoulder block on the much thicker Stein. Stein responds with a thunderous clothesline but misses a splash right after. Kash comes off the ropes while Stein is down and hits a very strange low blockbuster. Around this point an incredibly mean fan in the crowd yelled at Stein, “You can't lose to a child!” After a huge vertical suplex from Stein sends Kash crashing into the mat, the two trade some pretty hard-hitting forearms to each other. Single-knee Codebreaker from Stein (I'm sure this move has a proper name, but damned if I know it!) shows Kash whose knee is the boss. Kash eventually gets his momentum back and goes up to the second rope to finish Stein off but is met with Sawyer's lovely and devastating superkick. 1-2-3. Stein wins! (365 Cup Match win = 2 points)

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From the Front Row - 365 Pro Wrestling Recap - 13.02.2026

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Maybe you've been thinking “Where the fucking are my 365 recaps?!” Probably not, but maybe. Anyways, the music festival I work for and help book recently announced its lineup for this year and getting that pretty took most of my energy and attention. I was in the building for the last couple of weeks of 365 Victoria Fridays, but I took those in just as a fan and not as a writer. But after this short break, your boy is here to relay the details of another week of 365 action. You want graps? We got 'em. You want chaos? We got it.

DJ Kash vs Josh Cadwell
It's been a minute since we've seen DJ Kash between the ropes and it's nice to have him back, coming to ring accompanied by his father, Rad Dad. Excited to see what Son Dad has in store for this one. Cadwell comes out second and as usual, is excellent at making people hate him. Kash comes flying out of the gate with a flurry of offence. A second-rope bulldog. A nice snap suplex. Springboard elbow! Over the back Famouser! Cadwell weathers the storm and scores with a greasy powerbomb. But, as he does, Cadwell lets himself get distracted by Rad Dad resulting in an unsuccessful rollup from Kash. Cadwell goes to work with some pretty vicious stomps and a brutal slingshot into the turnbuckle on Kash, who eats that shit fully with his face. Cadwell follows up with some heavy, heavy chops and a nice crisp suplex with a float over pin. Kash won't be kept down though, scoring shortly after with a lovely running knee in the corner and then a crazy flipping DDT into a guillotine-like choke. Josh escapes and starts going for the leg – the limb he previously injured on Kash. But just as things are looking real grim for Kash, he gets a rollup out of nowhere for the win. Whoa! A shocking end.

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5 Questions with Rags #93 - Sawyer Stein & Johnny Rostyn (Moment of Truth) or "Got my thinking cap on, now I'm sharp as a blade, don't believe me, you sit there and watch me get paid"

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Sometimes you're a loner and you're kinda forced to find something like pro wrestling, so you don't feel so alone and weird in the world. I think I kinda fell into that category. Sometimes being a wrestling fan is just in your blood. It gets passed down to you like some weird family heirloom to compels you to get into a ring and hurt yourself. “When I was a kid, my dad and my older brother used to watch Hulk Hogan, Macho Man and Roddy Piper. As I got older, it was Attitude Era – Rock and Stone Cold days. Then from there all my friends stopped watching and I was a closet wrestling fan until I started actually wrestling,” Rostyn tells me with a laugh, shortly before the doors open at the First Met Hall in Victoria for another big Friday night 365 Pro Wrestling show. “They all stopped when Cena, Lesnar came in. But I kept watching. Then I got really into New Japan. Until like 2020, I would still be watching on my phone at 4 in the morning, by myself, under a blanket. I’d go to talk about wrestling with my friends and they’d be like 'Dude, we don’t care.' But now all those dudes that ‘don’t care’ are like, “How’s wrestling?” Screw you guys!”

And sometimes, you grow up watching, like the second guy but you are also a talented multi-sport athlete that needed somewhere to put your energy, so you do the thing that you shared with your dad. “Sawyer: For me, I watched wrestling with my dad growing up, since I was like three years old. Wouldn’t miss an episode RAW, Smackdown!, Sunday Night Heat, Velocity.” This motherfucker Sawyer said VELOCITY. I am shocked. That is dedication from the start. “Dude, we watched it all. And TNA!” Like his homie Rostyn, Saywer Stein is a student of the game.

“I played pretty much every sport growing up and had a good little character of my own in whatever sport I was playing that weekend. I was a shit-disturber, a natural heel on and off the court. It translated really well. I was always thinking about doing wrestling. I wasn’t really sure of when or how or where I was gonna do it,” Sawyer recalls during our sit down. Lucky for everyone in 365 Nation, fate didn't let him get settled in any of those other things. “I was literally about to take an offer to be a multi-sport athlete at a university that was by the Pro Wrestling Academy, where it was before in Campbell River. Then I went to a show, it was PWA at the time, before 365 changed their brand. Eddie had brought it in Carlito for a week and I watched their show at the Edelweiss Club. I was always a huge Carlito mark so that fired me up. That show, that day, they announced they were opening a school in Victoria. So…Now I’m here.”

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From the Front Row - 365 Pro Wrestling Recap - 23.01.2026

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Coming off a big show last week, anticipation was high for what this Friday night was going to bring us. This is the beauty of the weekly shows – wrestling has a notoriously short memory and getting to tap in every week really helps keeps the story momentum going. We got a nice, tight 5 match show – plus an instalment of everyone's favourite 365 talk show, Stein Time!

Inferno vs Zack Andrews (w/ Petunia)
Nothing like starting off a show with Inferno. And Zack Andrews has certainly levelled up since becoming heir to the throne of the Fifth Dimension. Pretty stoked for this one, despite the row of lads behind The Crew who attempted “Twist his dick” and “Twist his nipple” trying their best to steal the focus. Thankfully these chants didn't get any traction and they didn't attempt them again for the rest of the night. If you're at a wrestling show, please do not participate in such chants. Anyyyywaaaaays... Lots of fast offence to start this one off. Inferno is a blink-and-you'll-miss-him kinda wrestler. He hit a springboard European uppercut. A nice cannonball in the corner. Zack stops the onslaught with a nice headbutt, and then locks in a beautiful double wristlock. Inferno tries to get loose only to get taken down by a lovely big boot from Andrews. Andrews gets Inferno upside down for a big stalling suplex that Inferno reverses into a sweet guillotine choke. Inferno went up top and hit a pretty crazy frogsplash-esque crossbody. Andrews hit an absolutely BRUTAL powerbomb on Inferno and the locked in a great cloverleaf. (Ain't seen one of then in awhile! Nice one, bad guy Zack.) Inferno ends up winning this one with a Swanton bomb. A mighty fine match!

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