Kevin Ku: DEADLOCK Pro Presentation And Style Is Very Much Golden Era Ring Of Honor

DEADLOCK Pro Wrestling has become a top destination for independent wrestlers, largely running out of North Carolina, but recently heading over to Japan and teaming with Gatoh Move. The promotion was started by John Blud of newLEGACY, Anthony Douglas (TonyPizzaGuy), and James Darnell (CMPuls3). 

Violence is Forever (Kevin Ku & Dominic Garrini) are the reigning DPW Worlds Tag Team Champions, and they have stated that they bleed orange and black, pledging their loyalty to DPW.

Speaking to Jeremy Lambert & Stephen Jensen on The Spotlight, Ku explained his love of DPW. 

“I’ve been a day one person there because I was on their first show. I think they appreciated that I didn’t treat them like a bunch of weirdos when they reached out to me completely cold about this random show in North Carolina that was not in a large city. We’ve just grown to love their style. We talk to them a lot, especially while we were in Japan, how their presentation and their style is very much Ring of Honor in the golden era. That’s how they want their wrestlers presented and I think we fit in so well. Their fans are crazy. They’re not traditional wrestling fans. They are podcast fans that come to the show and become wrestling fans. They are appreciative of what’s going on in the ring. They’re not jaded by anything. They don’t care about what’s going on at another company. They just love DPW. That’s so rare that you build a fanbase from something else and then bring it into wrestling and it grows from there. They’ve only been around for a little over a year and they’ve already done a tour of Japan. Who can really say that? They are all super cool. John, Tony, James, they are all so cool to work with. They are so open to any idea that me and Dom have. They cage match we had with WorkHorsemen (JD Drake & Anthony Henry), we were like, ‘We want to bleed, we want to make this special. We want this to be as violent as we can in these parameters.’ They were like, ‘please, do whatever you need to do.’ Any pre-tapes or promos we have to do, they give us a couple of bullet points, but they don’t direct us anywhere. That’s another thing that is really cool. They think about presentation, video packages, they pay for good lighting. All their production is really nice. It’s probably my favorite place to be on the indies,” said Ku.

Violence is Forever recently defended their DPW Worlds Tag Team Titles against MSP (Aiden Aggro & The DangerKid) at DPW No Pressure. 

Elsewhere during the interview, Ku discussed his call out of FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) and how the match was supposed to happen. You can find his full comments by clicking here.

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