Episode 39 of #FanninsFlashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined live by the former 6x IWA Mid South Light Heavyweight Champion – Hy-Zaya! Listen to Hy-Zaya talk about his grandma having a crush on Tojo Yamamoto and how that got him started down the path of becoming a wrestling fan. Hear how JB Thunder introduced Hy-Zaya to IWA and how a bound grew through backyard wrestling and the Lock Family that still exists to this day 30 years later. What was Hy-Zaya’s perspective of the backstage fight with Atomic Dog and how did that immediately lead to him asking American Kickboxer to train him? Follow along on the journey as Hy-Zaya and Jim talk Kmart building, Charlestown, racism, the flaming tables incident, Mark Wolf, Chuck E Smooth, “Uncle H” Don Broady, all the way to Destination 1 Wrestling and his IWA comeback in 2013 – 2016. All that and more on this episode!

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