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Playing The Bad Boy With JOEY JANELA From GAME CHANGER WRESTLING · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  My name is the bad Boy Joey Janella. I am a I'm a crazy,
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  crazy wrestler from the United States and we're bringing our crazy brand of wrestling
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  to Australia finally. A lot of fans been waiting for a game Change of
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  wrestling, you know, we've been, we've been. We've been waiting to
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  bring it over for a long while now, and the fans want to wanted
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  us to come over. So we're doing it and we're gonna see things flow
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  and maybe we can make this, uh you know, a yearly deal,
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  a yearly stop on the CHCW tour. Beautiful many thanks for joining us today.
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  Oh yeah yeah. So, as you say, man, you're making
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  your way to Australia with the Game Change of Wrestling team to declare war on
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  Australia's renegades of wrestling the Three Knoights of Entertainment starting on August twenty fifth in
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  Sydney before got to Melbourne and Bruce been over consecutive days, so it sounds
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  like a massive couple of days for you, mate. Yeah, a lot
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  of a lot of drinking that boy, you wrest little before during our hoftops
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  at all times, and I'll try out where I'm gonna be jet lagged the
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  entire time, so it could be at any time. So this is going
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  to be your first time ever bring in game change of wrestling to Australia.
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  So what are you actually expecting. I'm expecting a lot of energy. I'm
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  expecting, you know, not a lot of sleep, and I'm expecting a
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  lot of great professional wrestling. So what are you actually expecting from your opposition
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  and the hometown fans. I've been Australia a few times Lesuly, come once
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  a year. It's always it's always one of the highlights of my year.
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  You know, it's one of my favorite places to visit. You know,
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  some of the some of the some of the best fans, the best bars,
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  and the best women's so three of my favorite things. And great professional
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  wrestling, great wrestlers over there. And you know, usually if we're coming
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  over, usually sometimes nice weather. I don't know, it depends on what
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  time. What's the weather going to be like this time. I don't even
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  Thailand. The windows not too bad. Yeah, I usually come over because
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  I've been over a couple of times, and you know, June and Melbourne
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  can get a little bit of frigid at night. I forget, I forget
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  what month it is, I forget what season it is over there, and
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  it is over here, and I you know, and back appropriately, but
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  make sure you do. It's gonna be a little bit cold down to Sydney
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  in Melbourne, so back at least one jumper. Yeah, yeah, at
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  one jumper for sure. D D do homework on the wrestler is like,
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  do you watch you be the footage of what Astralian wrestlers? Do you say
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  you know what you're up for or do you just get in there and take
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  what's fun of you? Yeah. With social media and Twitter and stuff,
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  I've also been there a few times, it's a lot easier to you know,
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  keep track and seems coming up on whatever scene and I'm familiar with a
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  lot of the wrestlers and h you know, and U there's a lot of
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  talent comes from Australia right now. It wasn't that, that wasn't the situation
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  ten years ago. So they're kind of branching out outcoming to US or going
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  to Japan and there coming to you know, mainstream television, and uh,
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  it's pretty cool because it wasn't like that ten years ago. Australia was kind
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  of a hard place to get out of, but now it's now it's picking
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  up and some of the greatest wrestling prospects in the world come from Australia now,
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  So it's pretty sick. How do you actually mentionally physically prepare yourself for
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  something like three rounds and matches? I have a three days on the other
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  side of the world, and I don't even know how I do it anymore.
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  It's kind of sometimes you're on this uh what do they call that self
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  drive mode where it's I do this every like this week only one match man
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  Detroit, Michigan and for GCW, and the last couple of weeks I've kind
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  of taken it easy. But then next week I'm in North Dakota. I
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  don't know if you guys know who the help fuck that is, and I'm
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  in in La Los Angeles, and then two days after that, I'm in
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  Mexico. So it's kind of a weekly thing for me. But I know
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  when I'm coming to Australia, you know there's not gonna be a lot of
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  sleep because you know the boys are going to want a party afterwards. You
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  know, the American wrestlers are gonna want a party, and all my Aussy
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  boys are gonna want a party as well, because they're all fucking they're sick.
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  Ohs. So Billy Corgan brought his wrestlers out of here earlier this year.
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  I think he was surprised at the high level of competition from the Aussy
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  team. So you're gonna make the same mistake of underestimating them. Uh No,
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  I know what I'm getting myself up into. You know, Billy Corgan
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  has some okay wrestlers, but they're do know GCW wrestlers, and gc W
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  has already taken off in the US and Japan, the UK, in Mexico,
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  like you said, So yeah, are you gonna make it take off
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  over here? Do you think I think it's gonna be big? I think
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  I think it's gonna be yearly stop on our tour, you know, we
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  we're trying. We're selling on places all over the world right now, you
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  know, and the growth has been crazy. I've been there since the beginning.
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  I'm the only wrestler that's been there since the first show. So I
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  can't see, I can't I can never predict where we're gonna be five years
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  ago, and I'm not going to be able to predict now where we're gonna
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  be five years. I just hope my back account increases, so Brady better
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  anymore. Tell us about your wrestling stall, mate, like what what's your
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  stake at your move? I have a lot of singer moves. My best
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  user move is dropping people on their necks. We thought that would come in
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  many directions. I can come from the side, he could come from Apollo
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  driver, something called the death value driver, where I just put you in
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  a fireman's car and plunge you on your neck. That's my favorite move is
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  watching people, you know, watching me nearly decapitate people. So I have
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  a lot of best My style is very I have all the flavors of ice
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  cream my style. I'm one of the most versatile wrestlers in the world today.
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  I wrestle all over the world. My main place is Game Change Arrest
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  in gc W, but I wrest all over the place, and whatever opponent
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  you put in front of me, I can kind of kind of like a
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  chameleon and adapt to that style. And that's what I think, that's what
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  makes me appealing to the fans. So I introduced this to some of the
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  other wrestless night and tell us say a weak points so I can pass him
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  under the ausies. Oh and I'm not gonna tell the weak points. But
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  there's a lot of great wrestlers coming over this time. By Kingo. He's
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  the biggest star in Mexico right now. He's making his first rounds in Australia
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  with us. She's a copper women's wrestler from Japan in the world right now,
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  very charismatic. She's making her first rounds for GCW in Australia and uh
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  Qringo Loco he's another one Mexico, United States. Huge in the name right
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  now. Effie and Ali catch you know, tag team, but they're innergender
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  is a man and a woman and h they go by the name Bussy,
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  which might not be slang for anything in Australia, but for here it's for
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  for fun and craziness. So they're coming over for the first time. Effie's
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  been over there with me for a different promotion, but Allison has never been
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  over there. And Yeah, it's gonna be awesome and we're gonna have a
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  lot of fun and it's gonna be pretty. It's gonna be a pretty wild
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  three days for the fans and for the wrestlers. Wrestling has always had a
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  strong association with hot rock and metal music. Might say, what some of
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  you change entrance songs? Oh, the Big One is one of the top
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  metal metal Snake Gauge is not coming over there because he's a convicted fellow and
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  he's probably our top guy in GCW. He's the most name synonymous myself with
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  GCW. For years, his fame has been with Talka for whom the bells
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  Toll, which is probably one of the greatest, most energetic entrances in in
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  professional wrestling, whether it be on the independence or mainstream level, his entrance
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  is always the most electric thanks to his energy and Metallica's energy. Well,
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  what's your song minus my French DJ Kevinsky, which it's not really metal,
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  but it's kind of like that synth wave, like that eighties car chase music,
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  kind of if I had to compare to anything, and it really is.
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  It's a good it's a good entrance song in it and my people,
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  many people do enjoy it. So I remember what's your Wrestling? About?
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  Thirty years ago? I might hear people say that it was a passing phase.
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  That it would never last. Those fuckers are eating their words right now.
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  But what is it do you think takes people coming back to wrestling.
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  It's like no other the same, nothing else in the world of entertainment.
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  You know, mixed Martschwartz has come around, and you know they're kind of
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  kind of in the same realm, but also not as professional wrestling. But
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  professional wrestling is still you can someone can write these ridiculous things and you know
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  that maybe what you're seeing is choreograph, but what you see, you also
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  know these guys are getting extremely, extremely beaten and hurt during a match and
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  telling a story with their bodies. And I think that's the art of it,
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  So telling you a story with your bodies, and it's like, it's
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  like nothing else, and that's why it's People thought it was gonna be a
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  phase, and it's lasted through the eighties, blew up again in the nineties,
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  and now we're at another boom point now, and of course it will
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  never be as big as it is it was at one point, because it's
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  difference now when there was only cable television at those times, and those people
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  gathered around their TVs and you only had you only had six channels, and
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  you know that was one of the things people like to watch. So it
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  will never be back to that level. But right now it kind of with
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  the social media era and everything else combined, it's kind of back to a
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  boom era and kind of a high point of the business. All right,
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  Joe, Well, thanks very much, good time that I met you.
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  Will be out here from August at twenty five with Game Change of Wrestling to
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  take on Austrais Rennygays of Wrestling. I'm going to be driving you when you
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  hit Brisbane, mates, so I'll see you at the Brisbane Airport and we'll
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  catch up for a few beers. Hell yeah, I appreciate that. And
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  I've never been part of Australia's bed and so I look forward to it be
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  in my back yard rather. I'll make sure the party's flowing. Yes,
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  hell yeah, Thank you pal,