OVW Podcast

Our latest episode is out, will Tommy Boy's wondering eye destroy the entire women's locker room? Let's find out!

OVWP 157 "Tommy Boy Be Looking" Covering OVW Rise 1416, October 1, 2026 Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

We are back from vacation and talking OVW Wrestling! Chris Cutler is at a crossroads and only Ashton Adonis can pull him back from the brink, but is he in time?

OVWP 156 "The OVW After School Special" Covering OVW tv (Rise) 1415, September 24, 2026 Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

We ❤️ Al Snow

Allen Ray Sarven's road into wrestling was built on genuine, relentless persistence. Born July 18, 1963, in Lima, Ohio, he was captivated by professional wrestling from a young age, and as a teenager, he maintained a real monthly ritual calling up every major wrestling promotion he could find, asking for a chance to train. Each time, he got turned down. Each month, he simply called again. His break finally came right after high school, when a promoter who'd previously rejected him changed his mind, connecting him with Jim Lancaster, promoter of Ohio's Midwest Championship Wrestling, who agreed to personally train him. He debuted on May 22, 1982, and spent the following decade grinding through Midwest independent promotions, working against legends like Harley Race, Bruiser Brody, and Curt Hennig, cycling through masked "Shinobi" ninja and other early gimmicks while earning a reputation among insiders as "the best-kept secret in wrestling," despite never quite breaking through nationally. He also ran his own wrestling school, "Body Slammers," in Lima, training future star D'Lo Brown as an assistant. His career finally reached mainstream audiences through ECW in the mid-90s, and later WWF, where he became genuinely famous for one of the strangest gimmicks in wrestling history carrying a foam mannequin head named "Head" that he'd talk to before matches, a character so bizarrely memorable it became a defining piece of the Attitude Era's chaos. Beyond performing, Snow became one of wrestling's most respected trainers, running WWE's "Tough Enough" reality show for four seasons and eventually purchasing developmental promotion Ohio Valley Wrestling outright in 2018, continuing to shape new generations of talent today. 🎤

Did you know Al Snow called wrestling promotions every single month as a teenager, getting rejected repeatedly, before finally landing his training shot? Comment below! 👇