ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Join Jesse Kage as he interviews professional wrestling superstars of today and the legends of the past about their break into pro wrestling and the entertaining journey to their "First Match" and beyond!
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
46 minutes
English
United States
22 episodes
since May 12, 2020
episodic
explicit content
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
On the ***SEASON FINALE*** of First Match we go all the way back to the beginning with WWE Referee Charles Robinson!!!
Blood capsules, razor blades and a hair vs. hair match?! Jump in the first match time machine and learn all about when Little Naitch was really little! From watching wrestling wit…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
On this episode of First Match we go all the way back to the beginning with SoCal Val!!
Was so great catching up with Val and we talked everything from her persona as Nikki Hollywood in her RPG wrestling league back in the day to her first show that was 3 days before her 16th birthday! Then on to …
On this episode of First Match we go all the way back to the beginning with the Hardcore Icon, Justin Credible!
Like a lot of wrestling fans, Justin's love of pro wrestling came from watching WTBS with Flair and the Horseman and then an ad in PWI grabbed his attention and off he went! From trainin…
On this episode of First Match we go all the way back to the beginning with Vampiro!
We start in Thunderbay, Ontario with Vampiro playing hockey, playing in bands and needing to just get out of the middle of nowhere Canada. The journey to the ring would start with him staying in the back of the ri…
On this episode of First Match we go all the way back to the beginning with the Worlds Most Dangerous Man, Ken Shamrock!
Stabbed at 10 years old, foster care, and a lot of fights, Ken had a rough start to say the least. But resiliency and the heart of a lion helped him to persevere and become one …
On this episode of First Match we go all the way back to the beginning with WWE Hall Of Famer, Ricky Morton!
Ricky takes us back to traveling with his dad, setting up rings and learning the ropes, being "greener than owl shit", and the journey to becoming one half of one of the most prolific tag t…
On this episode of First Match we go all the way back to the beginning with the FTW Champion and current AEW superstar Brian Cage!
From making a "Who Betta Than Kanyon" sign to befriending Kanyon, creating his own backyard wrestling fed only to then have Kanyon come in and wrestle him in what he c…
On this episode of First Match we go all the way back to the beginning with a WWE Legend, The Brooklyn Brawler!
Steve Lombardi had zero intentions on being a pro wrestler, he was all about body building. That is until he sat in the Garden for some matches and that's when his world changed! From th…
On this episode of First Match we go all the way back to the beginning with one of the hottest tag teams in all of pro wrestling, Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler, FTR!
Dax was sold on pro wrestling from the first time he saw Gordon Solie introduce Ric Flair, Cash saw Hogan first and was hooked! Both…
On this episode of First Match we go all the way back to the beginning with the former president of WCW and the creator of the NWO, Eric Bischoff!
From a list of pre-wrestling careers that spanned from being a print model to landscaping but NOT owning a butcher shop, to teaming up with Sony Onoo, …
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