Creative Control With Joe Feeney

Ep 26 is a fun convo with RF Video owner/operator and Ring of Honor creator, Rob Feinstein! Rob has a big event coming up on Royal Rumble Sunday at Dave & Buster's in Philadelphia, as he is promoting the first ever debate between former WWE creative team member Bruce "Brother Love" Prichard and former WCW President Eric Bischoff! Not only will this debate cover all the controversial issues from the Monday Night Wars, but the views will come straight from the minds of two of the top executives in pro wrestling from that time period! Stepping in as special guest moderator will be none other than former WWE/World Champion and future Hall Of Famer, Chris Jericho! It is certainly a unique event, and i will be there, as should you! Go to RFVideo.com for ticket information.RF has also be in and around the business since the mid 80s. He's been a fan, a promoter, a booker, and businessman, promoting the RF Video brand for around two decades now. We discuss his early fandom and memories, becoming a tape trader, how

It's Creative Control's Silver Anniversary, and we are joined by a man who was always covered in gold his entire career, former NWA and WCW World Heavyweight Champion, Intercontinental Champion, and United States Champion, "The King Of The Mountain" Jeff Jarrett! Mr. Jarrett was, of course, the founder of TNA, and is currently the founder and the face of Global Force Wrestling! GFW promises to have an exciting 2015 ahead, starting with their promotion of New Japan Pro Wrestling's Wrestle Kingdom 9, airing live this Saturday night/Sunday morning at 2 AM Eastern, as well as Sunday night at 7 PM. Jeff and I discuss GFW's future, the exciting card this Sunday, his thoughts on having Jim Ross call the action, as wells as thoughts on guys who he helped establish in the US via their TNA exposure, such as AJ Styles and Alex Shelley. We also discuss the red hot Bullet Club, ReDragon, Tenzan & Kojima, and the most talented and controversial tag team in pro wrestling today, The Young Bucks! Bring in the New Year lis

Cameron Hall is the host and creator of both Completely Damaged Radio (live every Monday at 11 AM on (http://montcoradio.wix.com/montcoradio) and completelydamaged.comWe speak about how he became a wrestling fan, his all time favorites, some of his thoughts on WWE and today's superstars, including Ryback, Dolph Ziggler, and Roman Reigns. We also discuss NXT and why some of the alumni have had trouble transitioning, we talk about TNA's move to Destination America, and we talk about The Monster Factory and it's impact on both of our shows. Cameron is a great dude, and this is a really fun listen. Please check out Completely Damaged Radio at https://www.facebook.com/pages/COMPLETELY-DAMAGED/195915966201

Episode 23 starts out with a bang, with indy wrestling veteran and star CJ O'Doyle. CJ will be one of the stars on the forthcoming season of Stone Cold Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge, beginning this Sunday night January 4th at 8 PM! We discuss how he wound up with that opportunity, as well as his difficulties in PWU and CZW after the closure of his home promotion, 3PW. We also cover his time up to the present day on the Florida indies, his experiences working for WWC in Puerto Rico, being revealed as the first member of Aces & Eights in TNA, live on Impact, working with Sting and Kurt Angle at that time, appearing live on Raw during a heated segment between Stephanie McMahon and Brie Bella, and so much more! Will the "Irish Lionheart" triumph on Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge? How does he feel about the expanding pro wrestling landscape in 2015? And where would he ultimately like to wind up? We cover all this and more!

Our guest on this episode is my friend, mentor, and one of the most memorable wrestling personalities of all time, "The Quintessential Studmuffin" Joel Gertner! Joel and I discuss his recent appearance on Colt Cabana's Art Of Wrestling, his opinion on the UFC's signing of CM Punk and how they could best use him, working at TNA in 2002, dealing with Jerry Jarrett, returning to TNA in 2010 for the ECW Reunion show "Hardcore Justice," managing the Dudleys again that night, working for WWE for ECW One Night Stand in 2005, his segments with JBL and Eric Bischoff, his first night as lead announcer in ECW, working with Taz, running his own promotion MXW, working for Extreme Reunion/Extreme Rising, his expectations and disappointments with that promotion, Steve O'Neill, and so much more!

On this episode, we have former ROH World Heavyweight champion, former TNA X Division Champion, and former NWA World Tag Team Champion, Homicide! We cover so much in this hour, including his thoughts on some of the sketchier training schools today, Lucha Underground and Konnan, TNA and Destination America, his current physical condition, the famous Homicide vs. Steve Corino feud and will it return, Tommy Dreamer and the House Of Hardcore, the current AJ Styles controversy involving the Styles Clash, working with Jon Moxley (Dean Ambrose) back in 2010, his thoughts on the collapse of Extreme Rising, his thoughts on Dixie Carter, thoughts on Jim Cornette, thoughts on Vince Russo, working with heroes such as Terry Funk and Sabu, his time in MLW being managed by Gary Hart, and his views on his star student Low Ki, along with so much more!

Today's episode features "The Amateur Wrestling Machine" Billy Damiana. We start off with the major topic of the day, CM Punk's signing with UFC. I won't spoil his thoughts on the subject, but suffice it to say, Billy doesn't hold back. We also go into his slightly unstable in ring character, how much of that is a shoot, did the love for amateur or pro wrestling come first for him, his thoughts on former UFC fighter Matthew Riddle transitioning to pro wrestling, who he feels has the best chance to make it among his peers, teaming with QT Marshall this weekend, his influences, who he likes to watch today, his buddy the very large and powerful Nick Comoroto, and his hopes and goals for the year 2015.

This episode's guest is the legendary "Starmarker" himself, Kenny Bolin! While I am very familiar with Mr. Bolin and his history in wrestling, I learned something new tonight: when Kenny Bolin is your guest, Kenny Bolin is the host, haha. It was quite the "stream of consciousness" episode with Mr. Bolin, as we covered a great deal of his thoughts, including his relationship and disagreements/heat with Jim Cornette, his thoughts on John Cena, Brock Lesnar, and Batista, his thoughts on Jerry Lawler as a commentator, various stories from his time in OVW, dealings with the WWE, his upcoming book, and his current ventures with his show "The Bolin Alley" and his "Beats By Bolin" project. Please check out his Facebook page, where you can contact Kenny if you are interested in either his headphones, his shirts, and his DVDs, at facebook.com/starmakerbolin

Special thanks to Falling Red for the use of their track "If You Ain't Down With The Rock"In this episode, our guest is former 3PW investor and former English wrestling personality, Mr. Mike Hawes! Mike has a hell of alot to say, and doesn't hold back one bit, starting with his early days as a wrestling fan, meeting and working with Sabu, coming to the US for an XPW loop with Sabu, and never leaving! From there we talk about his involvement as an investor with Pro Pain Pro Wrestling (3PW.) Hawes is not afraid to share his feelings (both positive and negative) on several wrestling performers, personalities, and journalists, including his time at 3PW with The Blue Meanie, Jasmin St Clair, Ruckus, Mike Johnson, Rockin Rebel, The Dirtbike Kid, Danny Cage & The Monster Factory, James Storm & Chris Harris, Kevin Kelly, Jeremy Borash, The Messiah, Smart Mark Video, Sabu, CZW, and a whole hell of a lot more! Parental Advisory, Explicit Material within!

Referee Mike Kehner has been living his dream since the mid 90s. He's worked everywhere, NWA, WWE, TNA, ROH, CZW, PWU, XPW, 3PW, and most notoriously of course, ECW! We touch on as much of his career as we can in just one episode, including working the ECW reunion shows for both WWE and TNA, refereeing in China, his friendship with Steve Corino, going from referee to wrestler to trainer and back again, the turmoil in the Philly indies after the demise of ECW, and what he is up to currently. It's a great interview with one of the true good guys in the business, and a man full of experience and knowledge.

Our guest on this episode is Mr. Kevin Kleinrock. Kevin has been involved in the business creatively since his late teens, including XPW, Wrestling Society X, Urban Wrestling Federation, Extreme Reunion/Rising, and Masked Republic. We discuss being creative in the wrestling business, Rob Black & XPW, XPW's attempt to take over Philadelphia wrestling, stealing other promotion's talent, XPW's reunion shows and successful DVD business, as well as heat between Shane Douglas and Steve Corino, Wrestling Society X and working with MTV, and we touch upon Lucha Underground, and Kleinrock's future in the business, and his reflections on his run thus far.

Rebel has been in the business since the late 80s, and that includes the tri state area, TWA, Puerto Rico, ECW, WWF, WCW, CZW, 3PW, PWU, and so many more. He is still going strong today, and on this show he gives his opinions on Tod Gordon, Paul Heyman, ECW, CZW, John Zandig, Johnny Kashmere, 3PW, The Sandman, TNA and the Gut Check, and so much more!

"Mr. 1859" Cliff Compton joins the show for this episode, and we cover a plethora of subjects. We talk about Hulkamania Era vs. Attitude Era, his early days training, the genesis of the Domino gimmick, Vince's disinterest in tag teams, was he in Aces & Eights, what are his thoughts on pro wrestling's immediate future, the WWE Network, and finally, what is next for ProWrestlingTees.com's top seller, the self made man, Cliff Compton!

Enjoy a holiday themed egg nog soaked preview of Saturday November 15th's dual events in the Philadelphia area, Monster Factory Pro Wresting's Turkey Slam 2014, and Tommy Dreamer's House Of Hardcore's debut at the 2300 (ECW) Arena!There's a couple of audio goofs while trying to play a song...ECW! ECW! ECW!

Ed Ferrara has written television for the WWF during the Attitude Era, WCW during a tumultuous time, and TNA during it's latter days in it's Pre-Hogan era. He is absolutely loaded with stories and wisdom, and he gives a very informative and fun hour as a guest. Hopefully he will be on part 2 to cover more, but here we talk about his start, actually training to be a wrestler, working indies, his introduction to working with WWE, working with Vince Russo and Vince McMahon, and all the ups and downs (mostly downs!) of working at WCW.

Our guest on this show was "Good News" Tim Hughes. Tim has some indy experience and is currently trying to better himself by spending every moment he can at The Monster Factory. His passion for the business is very obvious and very contagious. He's good a great character, he can improvise with the best of them, and he's very good at working a crowd. In this interview he tells us all about working in different areas, his heroes and influences, his hopes for The Monster Factory's future, his feelings on pro wrestling and it's competition these days, and so much more. It's a really good show with a passionate young man; well worth the listen.

Episode 10 features veteran Devon "Crowbar" Storm. Storm has literally been everywhere from A-Z. ECW, WCW, TNA, WWE, ROH, WWA, XWF, ECWA, Extreme Rising, and more. He wasn't shy about answering any questions we had, and he talked about every promotion he has worked for, and covered the disastrous Extreme Reunion show, heat with Taz, WCW angles that never were, conversations with Bret Hart, working with Terry Funk at the final Starrcade, his on again off again rivalry with Sabu, and so more more! Truly worth the listen!

The author of the history of wrestling in Louisville, "Bluegrass Brawlers, Mr. John Cosper joined us on this episode to talk about a plethora of subjects. We talked alot of Louisville history, Jerry Lawler, Jim Cornette, Dutch Mantell, Paul Heyman, Jerry Jarrett, OVW, IWA Mid South, Ian Rotten, CM Punk, Colt Cabana, Chris Hero, as well as some thoughts on the current day product, including the Ryback repush, what to do with Rusev, and so much more!

On this episode of Creative Control, our guest is the great Les Thatcher! Les has seen and done it all in the business, from wrestling, to booking, to training, to commentary. He's been around since the 60s, and his love for the pro wrestling business is still obvious today. Take a listen to this episode and hear Les discuss his thoughts on the importance of physiques in wrestling, his relationship with the WWF as a farm system, his relationship with current WWE main eventer Dean Ambrose, his thoughts of hardcore wrestling, and so much more!

"The King Of Old School" is our guest on this episode. Corino is a former ECW, NWA, MLW, and AWA Champion, and has travelled the world as a wrestling superstar and booker, from Puerto Rico to Japan. He is the current ROH commentator, as well as running his own promotion, PWF. He touches on several subject, including his view on the Steen vs. Cornette feud, his WWE tryouts, working in Puerto Rico and more.