Jonathan Snowden

Sky Blue covered in blood.

More like Sky Red amirite. #AEWDynamite

This 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.

Bookshelf

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.

The Sermon of 55 Kicks: The Night Tiger Mask Created Shootstyle Wrestling The Universal Wrestling Federation was a company born of spite and baptized in failure.

I'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.

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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.

You seem genuinely unwell. Hope to never hear from you again. 🙏

What 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.

The Kids Who Burned a Kingdom: The First Brave Steps of the Revolutionaries Who Built Pancrase How Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki Forged Their Own New Reality

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.

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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 Kenta Kobashi's 2002 Return was Pro Wrestling NOAH At Its Finest

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.

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Agatha Christie Reading Tracker

Attention to whom it may concern: We're going to read all the Christies.

Finding Gods on the Green Mat: Book Announcement They built a dynasty, faced a tragedy, and fought their way back. It's time to tell the Pro Wrestling NOAH story.

We have a new pro wrestling book for sale at Hybrid Shoot. Would appreciate your support.

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Flowers

Neat flowers randomly appeared in the yard.

Well, 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.

Program 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.

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.

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Why does a refrigerator have a screen? 🤣

Kristina was making fun of me using the word "dames" so now I might have to burn it.

Old 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.