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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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 #88 - Casey Ferreira or “I'd call it showboating but this is the Millennium Falcon”

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A few months ago, at the first show from No Fate Pro Wrestling in Vancouver (An incredibly successful and tremendously fun show, by the way) the first wrestler through the curtain was Casey Ferreira. This wasn't a one-off show put on by people who were coming and going. This is a new promotion with a direction and ton of power, run by people who clearly LOVE professional wrestling. Having Ferreira be the first wrestling through the curtain in the history of the new promotion was the choice of people who know what they're doing. You see, each day I wake up as an indie wrestling fan on the west coast and I feel blessed to live in a place so lousy with talent. Walk into any wrestling show in Victoria or Vancouver and you're going to see an endless stream of talent, charisma and passion. With such a high bar being the standard, encountering someone who stands out means something special. You know it as soon as you see them walk to the ring for the first time and engage their opponent for the first time. Casey Ferreira is one of those special people. On that Sunday night in downtown Vancouver, he wrestled other very special wrestler – and past 5 Questions with Rags guest – Eli Surge. It was a bout of hard-hitting strikes and high-flying risks that really encapsulated everything that makes me love professional wrestling. Great crowd connection, chemistry between the wrestlers, technical and devastating moves, and, perhaps most importantly, a story to tie it all together.

“I feel like I'm thinking less and less about moves as I progress. It's really not on mind, not getting me too excited at this point – It's more, at this point, how can I tell a whole match? There are so many fans who realize they love guys because they don't do that many moves. I'll go-go-go, but it's not move-move-move, it's build-build-build-one move. That's what I prefer. The fun part for me is the movement between moves,” Casey reflects, sitting on a bench in the sun in the Victoria neighbourhood of North Park, as preparation for that nights 365 Wrestling show continues a couple of blocks away. His match that night was another thumper, against other fast-rising stud Cole Rivera. It was just the latest entry in a year that is quite apparently ever-more-filled with such occurrences.

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