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Funkin' Fall

October 19, 2026October 19, 2026

1976: From West Texas to Japan: The Making of a World Champion

Written by Tony Richards Part of Violent People’s FUNKIN’ FALL series: View the full index. 1976 was a remarkable year in American professional wrestling, a year in which the United States celebrated its bicentennial, the National Wrestling Alliance continued to serve as the sport’s most influential pro wrestling organization, and Terry Funk carried professional wrestling’s […]

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Funkin' Fall

October 16, 2026October 16, 2026

1975: The Lost Language of the Funks

Written by ColePart of Violent People’s FUNKIN’ FALL series: view the full index. 03/13/1975 2/3 Falls match for the NWA International Tag Team Titles This was an incredibly intimidating project to approach compared to our feature on Danielson from a couple years ago. Terry Funk’s career is an absolute behemoth to try and look at, […]

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Funkin' Fall

October 9, 2026October 19, 2026

Violent People Presents: A Funkin’ Fall

Terry Funk is the greatest wrestler ever. That’s not my opinion. It’s a mathematical fact. Every ten years, the Greatest Wrestler Ever (GWE) project asks wrestling fans to submit ranked ballots based largely on the wrestling they’ve actually watched. After previous editions in 2006 and 2016, Funk emerged from the 2026 project at the top […]

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World's Most Dangerous Retrospective

October 8, 2024August 2, 2026

World’s Most Dangerous Retrospective: Ken Shamrock vs. Don Frye (PRIDE FC 2/24/02)

World’s Most Dangerous Retrospective is a review series from three of the founders of Violent People reviewing the matches (and fights) of Ken Shamrock. A not so elegant ripoff of Segunda Caida’s Complete & Accurate series. Matches will be rated as either SOFT or HARD. Pride 19Saitama Super ArenaSaitama, Japan Sam Was PRIDE fixed? Ken […]

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Funkin' Fall

October 14, 2026October 16, 2026

1974: Nepotism in Western States Sports

Written by Barbara Rocca Part of Violent People’s FUNKIN’ FALL series: view the full index. AMARILLO, TEXAS — 1974 I’ve been a good ol’ boy from Amarillo my whole life and Western States Sports is the territory I grew up with. IIt’s the promotion my daddy took me to as a boy, and one that […]

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Funkin' Fall

October 12, 2026October 14, 2026

1973: Before Terry Funk Was Terry Funk

Part of Violent People’s FUNKIN’ FALL series: view the full index. When Tanner began putting together FUNKIN’ FALL, by which I mean declaring we should do it and then not mentioning it again for months, he divided Terry’s career into pre-1975 and everything after. This makes sense. There is considerably more Terry Funk footage available […]

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October 7, 2026

Violent People Radio #116: All Butts and Planes

Necro Butcher is a WWE Legend and Samoa Joe is a Christianhttps://share.transistor.fm/s/3be1a10f

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October 3, 2026

No She Kan’tji

Tim is Joined by the always endearing, never afearing Eamonn Bell to talk about wXw Grand Prix festival and the poop parkhttps://share.transistor.fm/s/7af26b2d

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October 1, 2026

Worn Out Tapes #10 Antonio Inoki vs. Masa Saito (with Chris)

The podcast that covers the matches you find yourself watching again and again. This time talking about Antonio Inoki vs. Masa Saito. Joined by 1/4 of VPR Chrishttps://share.transistor.fm/s/6dd7f7c8

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September 30, 2026September 28, 2026

2CW Doing The Work: Syracuse, 2/23/2007

Intro post to understand why we are doing this. TLDR: Ranking every match in 2CW show. The rankings you see are where these matches rank after completing the show you are reading about. We are back in Syracuse. A show main evented by wrestlers part of the Wrestling contigent of the roster, who aren’t big […]

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September 29, 2026

Violent People Radio #115: Pawtrig Bom-Ba-Ye!

The real Head of the Family was Sam.https://share.transistor.fm/s/9c37b2e5

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Violent People

1976: From West Texas to Japan: The Making of a World Champion

1975: The Lost Language of the Funks

Violent People Presents: A Funkin’ Fall

World’s Most Dangerous Retrospective: Ken Shamrock vs. Don Frye (PRIDE FC 2/24/02)

ZONES of Disinterest

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Wrestling Is Better When We Are Talking About Wrestling

Wrestling in Weird Places

Worn Out Tapes #9 Dory Funk Jr. & Terry Funk vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy (with Colette and Sol)

Worn Out Tapes #8 Aja Kong vs. KAORU (with Dokomoy and Isabel)

Worn Out Tapes #7 Johnny Knoxville vs. Sami Zayn (with Chris and PTO)

Worn Out Tapes #6 Jun Kasai & Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vs. Nick Gage & Zandig (with Justice and A Bastard)

Worn Out Tapes #5 Rush vs. LA Park (with Chris and Colette)

Worn Out Tapes #4 Jay Briscoe vs. Mark Briscoe

1976: From West Texas to Japan: The Making of a World Champion

1975: The Lost Language of the Funks

1976: From West Texas to Japan: The Making of a World Champion

1975: The Lost Language of the Funks

Violent People Presents: A Funkin’ Fall

World’s Most Dangerous Retrospective: Ken Shamrock vs. Don Frye (PRIDE FC 2/24/02)

1974: Nepotism in Western States Sports

1973: Before Terry Funk Was Terry Funk

Violent People Radio #116: All Butts and Planes

No She Kan’tji

Worn Out Tapes #10 Antonio Inoki vs. Masa Saito (with Chris)

2CW Doing The Work: Syracuse, 2/23/2007

Violent People Radio #115: Pawtrig Bom-Ba-Ye!