Sky Blue covered in blood.
More like Sky Red amirite. #AEWDynamite
13.11.2025 01:25 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@jonathansnowden.bsky.social
Author: Total MMA, The MMA Encyclopedia, Shooters, Shamrock, Secret New Project Online: The Ringer Substack: hybridshoot.substack.com “I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
Sky Blue covered in blood.
More like Sky Red amirite. #AEWDynamite
13.11.2025 01:25 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is the first time blue sky has appeared as a site referring readers to one of my wrestling posts.
2% of readers clicked from here.
So, thanks.
It was pretty ballsy of me to claim to be a professional writer. So far no pushback.
04.11.2025 16:36 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Bookshelf
Arn Anderson as bookmark.
What do I, a professional writer with lots of fancy books on the shelf, use as a bookmark?
A randomly selected #wrestling card, a pile of which sits loose in my bedside table for this specific purpose.
There are probably 25 books about UWF alone. Plus guys have done autobiographies down to the Naksno level. And the magazine coverage was extensive.
03.11.2025 18:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've done a lot of translation for book projects focused on Japanese fighting and wrestling. I'm sharing pieces at Hybrid Shoot.
In 1984, a band of renegades created a new wrestling that would eventually birth Japanese MMA. This is their origin story.
hybridshoot.substack.com/p/the-sermon...
Update on me: over here interviewing Tugboat and Bob Cook and Mark Mero. Malenko adjacent guys.
My commercial instincts remain singular. Doing it for the culture.
I'm down to watching a few GIFs and still feel cheated.
27.10.2025 18:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You seem genuinely unwell. Hope to never hear from you again. 🙏
18.10.2025 01:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What do you think that says?
There's absolutely no reason to doubt Tony chatted with Lou Thesz on AOL.
The fact that you've spent all day doing this is insane.
You're going to bring this here? Lou Thesz was super active on the wrestling internet in the 90s.
It's okay that you were wrong.
Until Musk's purchase of Twitter flipped perceptions, I think most people associated Tesla with environmentally responsible liberals. Like a Prius.
I'd guess most of them on the road were bought by people without any intent at all to signal a right wing affiliation.
I get so bored by projects about halfway through.
Any creative types have a strategy for getting through this?
I'm talking specifically about personal projects. Obviously work-for-hire is motivated by a check.
Want the real history of Japanese #wrestling?
We're telling those stories one match at a time over at Hybrid Shoot.
Today we follow the revolutionary first steps of Minoru Suzuki and Masakatsu Funaki as they broke away from New Japan.
open.substack.com/pub/hybridsh...
A collage of images featuring the Malenko family.
Some news I'm excited to share: I'm telling the Malenko family story in cooperation with Joe & Dean Malenko.
From Boris's heat-seeking territory days to Joe's journey with Karl Gotch & Dean's mastery of the craft—the definitive story of wrestling's first family of "shooters."
#wrestling
Reality Is a Work: The Unbreakable Man Who Had to Break
Jonathan Foye's new book for Hybrid Shoot has me thinking about NOAH. This is the story of a match I loved.
open.substack.com/pub/hybridsh...
Agatha Christie Reading Tracker
Attention to whom it may concern: We're going to read all the Christies.
08.10.2025 18:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We have a new pro wrestling book for sale at Hybrid Shoot. Would appreciate your support.
open.substack.com/pub/hybridsh...
Flowers
Neat flowers randomly appeared in the yard.
06.10.2025 22:26 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Well, the purpose of Nielsen ratings is to provide an estimated audience for advertisers. So it wouldn't make sense to include a streamer which has its own ads.
06.10.2025 20:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Program cover for Nobuhiko Takada's last match.
New piece of art for the home office.
One of the most successful pro wrestlers of the 1990s and a formative figure in establishing MMA in Japan.
#PRIDEFCBook
#MMA
#Wrestling
Taylor Swift showgirl.
What are your favorites so far?
Listening to it a second time and right now Opalite, Actually Romantic, Cancelled and Wood stand out to me.
#TaylorSwift
Joe did nothing wrong.
#AEW
"I watched Great Sasuke do it and then invented it. Next question."
#wrestling
The People's House Was Built for a Brawl
From Andrew Jackson’s inaugural riot to Teddy Roosevelt’s basement dojo, the White House has always been a stage for our most savage instincts.
#UFC
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They will be used in my PRIDE book. I am thinking about how to offer them with Hybrid Shoot.
Definitely sign up for the Substack. I am not on social media much anymore.
open.substack.com/pub/hybridsh...
Why does a refrigerator have a screen? 🤣
19.09.2025 01:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Kristina was making fun of me using the word "dames" so now I might have to burn it.
17.09.2025 20:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Old timey wrestling crowd.
I interrupted all my current work to write a novel. I'm like halfway done.
It's a noir set in the world of 1940's wrestling.
I just started on a whim and wrote for hours. I have tens of thousands of words and a real clear picture of where I'm going.
No one asked for this.🤣
It's great.
14.09.2025 22:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0