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Two friends will collide on April 27th in a charity match as Harry Hardshaw battles Danny Deans in his farewell match.
The event which will take place at the Ayrfield community centre in Dublin will pit the former Hard Pain team members against each other for one final bout.
The duo will square off in a wrestling match, despite featuring on a boxing card in aid of the Dublin Boxing academy. Read more
The majority of wrestling fans think that wrestlers live in the lap of luxury but unless you’re The Rock, CM Punk or John Cena it couldn’t be any further from the truth.
That’s just on the indy scene in the States and Europe, never mind here in Ireland. See if you’re a wrestler on the Irish scene and you want to make money then you may forget about it because there is no money to be made here. You might get some money to cover your expenses like travel accommodation etc but other than that there isn’t a profit to be made at all. Most guys have day jobs which help with their expenses and some guys drive which helps as well if the promoter covers the petrol cost for the driver. But because I’m unemployed at the moment it’s even harder for me and most times I just barely cover my costs.
The point I’m trying to make is next time you go to an Irish wrestling event show your appreciation and support Irish Wrestling instead of spending your money on WWE tickets because the amount of talent in this country is unreal, prime example is the recent WWE signings of Joey Cabray and Rachel Walker.
As I said next time you’re at any Irish Wrestling event come over to the lads and ladies and show your appreciation and say thank you because I know personally that it means a lot.
Anyway that’s it for now so until next time take it ham and cheesy 
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What is wrong with wrestlers being wrestling fans?
This subject has bothered me for a while NOW, what constitutes the term “Mark”? Is it going around wearing your favourite wrestler’s t-shirt/merch or is it knowing all the details about his/her matches/life etc? To me that’s a wrestling fan not a Mark but in wrestling circles to be called such a thing is derogatory because to talk about last night’s Raw/Smackdown/ppv or even TNA event is blasphemy and it is frowned upon. Read more
As of right now I am wrestling with two promotions, Celtic Championship Wrestling and Emerald Wrestling Promotions.
My most recent match was for EWP in the Radisson hotel in Athlone on February 2nd. I managed a victory over Iron Man Petey Richards in a hard hitting opener where I was billed as Danny “the mean machine” Deans. Read more
Leading Irish wrestler Danny “The Pain” Deans is taking to the boxing ring in an attempt to raise funds for cancer research and a cancer patient who urgently needs treatment.
The Irish News Review columnist will don a different set of gloves when he takes to the squared circle on December 21st at the Regency Hotel in Dublin.
Deans will headline the event when he battles long time friend and Hard-Pain tag team partner Harry Hardshaw in a special exhibition match. Boxing rules will apply but who knows what will happen when these two grapplers get to grips with each other.
Speaking on why he’s involved in the charity event Danny said “This event means a lot to me because over the last few years I lost two of my auntie’s to cancer. They were my father’s sisters, he is also not with us anymore so I’d say they are proud of me for taking part in this event”.
A number of boxing matches will also take place on the undercard.
Tickets for the over 18’s event cost €15 with a DJ playing live music while the action unfolds. Live music will follow the event.
If you would like to sponsor Danny you can do so by contacting him through Irish News Review.
Celtic Championship Wrestling makes a welcome return to Cork on October 28th with their Hostile Halloween event taking centre stage at St Finbars GAA club in Togher.
Irish News Review columnist Danny Deans headlines the card as he takes to the squared circle with Harry Hardshaw to battle Tom Finnegan and Karl Brian in a tag team match.
Both teams have a history which each other and this tussle between Hard Pain (Deans and Hardshaw) and The Smokin Aces (Finnegan and Brian) is bound to be a highlight of the show.
The rivalry between the two teams has only exacerbated since CCW’s debut show in August, when Deans stormed the ring to save Hardshaw from an attack by The Smokin Aces. Hardshaw teamed with The Smokin Aces to battle Thunder, Lightning and Bonesaw in a six man tag team match. But when Hardshaw tapped out and cost his side the victory The Smokin Aces turned on him and began beating him down before Deans made the save, stripping Finnegan of his lead pipe and nailing his signature spear on Brian. Deans then challenged the duo to a match at Hostile Halloween, one the duo reluctantly accepted.
Speaking ahead of the bout House of Pain columnist Deans said the opportunity to get a chance at revenge “means so much more than inflicting pain as per usual, it means me and Hardshaw will get to inflict Hard-Pain”.
Hardshaw revealed his anger at the actions of his former team mates saying “I come from an old school background of fair fighting, where one on one is OK, if you lost fairly then shake hands and deal with it. Smokin Aces didn’t just hit me, they did it slyly and then tried to use a steel object.”
“Luckily for me Danny helped me. He’s old school too.”
This is not acceptable. I’m a man of principles and haven’t worked 7 years for two cowards to try ruin Hardshaw’s name and reputation.
It’s not just about getting revenge, it’s about teaching a lesson and learning of consequences.
Hardshaw ended by vowing to get retribution and stating that he and Deans would teach their enemies the meaning of true pain. “They should fear Hard Pain because it’s an alliance with two of Ireland’s toughest wrestlers out for a good old fashion fight, plain and simple, we want to leave The Smokin Aces and everyone else a statement, You’ve never experienced pain til you crossed Hard Pain”.
Put simply, losing for Hard Pain simply isn’t an option as the duo seek to get one over on the brazen duo of Finnegan and Brian.
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I sit here at the end of my Bank Holiday weekend just chilling out before I have to go back to the cold harsh reality of my FÁS course tomorrow morning, when a memory popped into my head of some of the bullshit that does go on in this business.
See you get some people who get ideas into their heads that they are superstars when in natural fact there just like any normal Tom, Dick or Harry who wrestled in front of a couple of hundred people. Unless Vince McMahon says your a superstar (and that includes me too in that statement) then sit down. Now I’m not shooting on anyone in particular I’m just saying what I have come across in this business since i started out.
Anyway onto something else there’s this thing about politics in wrestling now. If memory serves me correct isn’t that done in the bigger promotions in the states, like the former WCW back in the day or the current TNA and WWE. It is in these places where there is millions of dollars to be made so the workers jockey for position to get into the top money making spots by playing the politician, and with it being a cut throat business it’s in a way acceptable because there’s top dollar to be made. Now politics in Irish Wrestling I could never get my head around for the simple reason of there is FECK ALL MONEY TO BE MADE IN IRISH WRESTLING. I’m not saying we work for free but we just earn enough to cover costs like travel, food etc, but most of all there’s a vast majority of us who wrestle because it’s our passion in life and it’s what we love to do and I’d like to think that it shows when were out in that ring firing on all cylinders and tearing the house down.
Before I wrap this up I just wanna say one last thing and it’s that we should all leave all the political BS at the door and do what’s right for everyone in this business. Just go out there and wrestle and put on the best damn show imaginable and send the people home happy because at the end of the day were never gonna get rich wrestling in ireland unless it became mainstream and if the big TV stations jumped on board (I’ll hold that for another column) . Then we can all take a leaf out of Charlie Haughey or Bertie Ahern’s book and play politician.
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