Get Your Bell Rung Pro Wrestling Podcast w/Guest: Kenny Casanova

On this episode of the Get Your Bell Rung Pro Wrestling Podcast, host K.G. Landry sits down with Kenny Casanova for a wide ranging conversation covering Kenny’s life as a wrestling fan, wrestler, manager, author, teacher, promoter, and storyteller. Kenny has worn a lot of hats in and around professional wrestling, and this episode gives him room to talk about all of it, from catching Hulk Hogan’s torn up T-shirt as a kid to managing legends, writing books with wrestling superstars, and helping preserve stories that might otherwise disappear.K.G. opens the show by introducing Kenny as a professional wrestler, manager, author, DJ, and New England Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame inductee. From there, the conversation quickly turns into a mix of old school wrestling memories, funny road stories, book writing insight, and honest talk about the changing wrestling business.One of the strongest parts of this conversation is Kenny’s perspective on managers in wrestling. He speaks from the old school mindset: the manager was the mouthpiece, the troublemaker, the strategist, and eventually the guy fans desperately wanted to see get punched. Kenny makes a great point that a lot of those old manager tricks would feel fresh again today if they were done right.The writing portion of the episode gives this one a different flavor from a typical wrestler interview. Kenny breaks down how teaching English, reading aloud to students, and learning how to hold attention shaped the way he writes wrestling biographies. That makes a lot of sense when you look at the names he has worked with: Kamala, Sabu, Vader, Brutus Beefcake, ODB, Tito Santana, Ken Patera, Justin Credible, and more. He is not just collecting facts. He is trying to tell the story in a way people will actually read.The Sabu material is especially timely and meaningful. Kenny talks about working with Sabu, dealing with his unique way of communicating, trying to keep his voice in the book, and later hearing RVD’s concerns about how that voice came across. It is honest, but it never feels disrespectful. Kenny clearly cared about the project and about Sabu.There are plenty of laughs here too. The goat mascot story, the ring collapse, the reverse battle royal, the Sabu vomit story, the Brazilian Hug Squad, and the Mr. Fuji ribs are exactly the kind of oddball wrestling stories that make these conversations worth hearing.For fans of old school managers, independent wrestling, wrestling biographies, Sabu, Kamala, Bam Bam Bigelow, Tito Santana, Nikolai Volkoff, Jake Roberts, and the strange places where fandom turns into a life inside the wrestling business, this episode is loaded.Also, for all your current wrestling news and reviews with K.G., Bob Cook, Robbie Idol, and the "Grizzled Vet" Michael McCurdy…subscribe to the Get Your Bell Rung YouTube Channel over at https://www.youtube.com/@getyourbellrungprowrestling and like their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583941710996 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★