Two Pinoy Podcasts To Share

Ralph Imabayashi vs. Robbie Eagles in the August 2023 encounter at the PMC Spotlight Theater.
 

Hello everyone!

 

Earlier this week, this blogger shared a pinoy podcast (vlog) known as Forever Youngboys.  The vlog / podcast shares what's happening with pro wrestling in the Philippines.  Since this is about vlogs/podcasts, it's important to get the word out.  Gabriel Calumpong, in the short time, has done great work with this.  Here is the You Tube link once again so those who read this blog are aware.  Also, while there, please Subscribe!  Thanks. 

  https://www.youtube.com/@Forever_Youngboys/videos

 

This blogger has one more to add and actually noticed it, not so much by accident, but because of not being on social media much lately.

 

Pinoy Wrestling Reviews is another podcast that this blogger would like to give a shoutout to.  FPW Wrestlers, Thiago and Mharckie have done a great job sharing what is happening in the world of Pinoy Wrestling as well.  I was able to catch some of the interview with PWR/FPW wrestler, Ralph Imabayashi.  Imabayashi, a champion while at PWR, talked about several things including a match when he wrestled Robbie Eagles in August 2023.  

 

It was this blogger's first FPW show and was impressed not only with his match, but the show in general.  This blogger had a chance to do interviews with both Ralph and Thiago and they were both great and a class act.  This blogger looks forward to seeing an FPW show again soon! (maybe later in 2025!)

 

Here is the You Tube link to Pinoy Wrestling Reviews.  Please check them out...and by all means, please Subscribe!  Hope everyone has a great weekend!  

 

Here is the You Tube link.  Thanks everyone!

      https://www.youtube.com/@pinoywrestlingreviews

Tribalism

Baked Studio in Makati City, PH, home of Filipino Pro Wrestling

 

Fairly recently, this blogger has been reading as well as watching videos on Tribalism In Pro Wrestling.

 

This topic is nothing new to this blogger, wrestling fans, wrestlers, promoters, writers and the like.

 

Growing up during the Territory Era (late 1960s when I first started watching), if you lived in a large area like I did in the San Francisco Bay Area,  we wouldn't have known that it happened.  There was no internet, computers, cell phones and social media groups.

 

It wasn't until the early 1970s when I learned about promotions other than the National Wrestling Alliance.  A the time, wrestling fans in North America had the NWA, AWA and WWWF (now WWE).  Local television never showed the other promotions.  It was through a wrestling magazine on newsstands called The Wrestler.

 

Times have certainly changed.  Communication is much broader than 50-60 years ago.  And so is tribalism.

 

This fan loves pro wrestling.  Not only do I watch it on television or streaming here in America, but I follow NJPW as well as Southeast Asian Pro Wrestling.

 

Early this morning on Facebook, I saw a post on this topic from several of my friends in the Philippines.  Right away, I went on to the You Tube Channel and checked out a page called Forever Youngboys.

 

Gabriel has done a great job with the vlog and the page he's put together.  He may not remember, but I took a photo of The Yolo Twins following a Filipino Pro Wrestling show back in August 2023.  The Yolo Twins are very entertaining, very athletic and, in this fan's opinion, are the best tag team in Southeast Asia.  

 

Hopefully, Gabriel won't mind this but this fan wants to give a shoutout to him, his vlog, Filipino Pro Wrestling and all of the wrestling promotions in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.  

 

In closing, all of us who are wrestling fans, undoubtedly have a favorite promotion(s).  However, tribalism is NOT in this blogger's dictionary nor it should be in any wrestling fans either.  The industry itself needs to be supported and not being torn down.  That's my opinion and I'll leave it at that for now.

 

Here's the link to the Forever Youngboys page and please subscribe.  Thanks everyone!

              https://www.youtube.com/@Forever_Youngboys/videos