camps and stuff. You’ve definitely gotta know how to much there’s no point in having a mortgage or paying
set up and take down the ring and get an appreciation rent if you’re not there.
of the job you’re in. I think that a big part of it.
PWP - Fair point. I know you have wrestled in many
PWP - Do you still help to train newbie’s? countries, Japan and America as you’ve mentioned,
JONNY- I do some but I get bored real quick so I like to
but also Spain, Germany, Holland and I understand
keep active. A lot of these guys just want to get into
Thailand? How did you get to wrestle in Thailand?
the ring and do moonsaults, I see their point but I was JONNY- Scott Conway. He could have been as big a
never brought in like that. I mean I was pretty much promoter as Brian Dixon if he’d carried on promoting
self taught but I’m kinda glad in a way that when I over here but he moved to Thailand, and opened up a
finally got onto the circuit I was taught properly how restaurant there. Well he was here for years; he
to wrestle first, cos if you do get injured or the top rope started out as a second, then a referee and ran a lot of
breaks you’re fucked if you don’t know how to wrestle, shows. He emigrated to Thailand with his girlfriend
I’m glad I can always rely on my wrestling and stuff and missed wrestling and wanted to get into shows
like that. I mean I’m not really known for my wrestling, again so it started over there and he flew over a crew
more for my high flying and stuff like that, but I know of guys, there were about 4 or 5 British guys and
what I’m doing. about another 3 American guys and we were there for
about 3 months, and obviously that was wicked and I
PWP - How have you managed to make a living out of fell in love with the place and just go back there for
this when so many other British wrestlers have to rely holidays now.
on day jobs?
JONNY- A lot of it’s timing in this business. If we’d
PWP - How much time do you spend wrestling
have come in a few years early we could have probably
overseas?
have been in WCW. Look at AJ Styles, he was in WCW’s JONNY- In the summer predominately in England
developmental base ‘the Powerplant’, not a lot of because of the holiday camps, we are practically
people really know that. If he’d have started a few working every day of the year for pretty much July and
years earlier he probably would have been on WCW August. I do a lot in Germany; Portugal is picking up a
and now in WWE. You probably say he’s doing well for bit now. Not too much in Spain, there used to be a lot
himself now but it’s all about timing. When we came in France. In Europe the main place is Germany which
in there wasn’t really a lot of wrestling schools around can be like one a month, or a couple a month, then
or a lot of chances so when we did make it by getting nothing for a couple of months.
out to Japan and America that kind of made our name
over here, so people are like, ‘Oh my god, these guys PWP - Is wrestling picking up more in places like
must be good cos they’re getting flown out to Japan Germany now?
and America’. So we got more shows when we got
JONNY- Its swings and roundabouts everywhere with
back here, making a name for ourselves, got more
the economy the way it is, Europe, Japan, America, it
bookings based on our reputations, it’s built up on
goes in cycles. But it will pick up again, it will come
that. More and more people see you and they think
back again.
‘Ok, these guys are good we’ll use them’. But now
there are so many guys coming in that it’s a lot harder
PWP - Where is your favourite place to wrestle, would
for guys to do that unfortunately. It’s not an amazing
it have been Thailand?
living, you know what I mean, but it’s a living. I
JONNY- Thailand was not brilliant to wrestle in, the
wouldn’t really recommend it to anyone though if you
arena and the set up and everything was wicked, I
wanted to live lavishly.
love the country but they just didn’t get the fans in
as much as they’d like to have done. It’s probably
PWP - So how long would you say this has been your
England to be honest; it’s just completely different
living?
atmospheres wherever you go, such as Japan.
JONNY- I’ve only been making my living from this for
Everywhere has it’s positives but for me personally I
about the last 3 or 4 years. I’ve got my own car, but I’m
like a lot of heat in the matches, but in Japan it’s
still at home which isn’t brilliant but as I’m away so
reserved. They do get into it towards the end of the
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