It’s almost as if Gary and Wyatt have taken our love for wrestling, Tom Selleck & Chupa Chups and created our own private Lisa. Not only that but he’s now armed with a mega-penis…not that we’re size-queens or anything. You’ve probably seen his famous penis flip heat up the blogs, Lawd knows it heated us up. Here’s what happened when we spoke to Joey Ryan.

How did you come up with the character ‘Joey Ryan’?
Well, I’d been wrestling for a few years and I decided to pattern myself after the wrestling era that got me hooked – the 80s. I adopted 80s icon Magnum PI’s look with the moustache, chest hair and floral print. But as cool as he was then, if Magnum PI walked around looking like that today, it may have come off a little sleazy.

We have serious Speedo envy. How do you find those colours?
A lot of my early outfits, my tag team partner, Candice LeRae actually made for me. She would find floral patterns and sew them into wrestling trunks for me. Now I just surf www.spandexworld.com and see what material catches my eye.

Are you aware of your gay fanbase? 
After I appeared on RuPaul’s Drag Race a lot of people from the LGBT community reached out. I was shocked by how many thought it was cool I would be on that show. I guess there’s usually a resistance or unwillingness to crossover into that media. It’s hard for me to identify with the intolerance that must be felt in that community but I just try to be respectful of all people and cultures. I even don’t like separating groups in terms of a ‘community.’ To me, we’re all just people.

There’s a whole lot of Joey Ryan erotica out there. Do you get involved in the world of fan fiction?
I’m aware of fan fiction but I’ve never had any involvement with it. I’m all for people using there imaginations and having a creative outlet though. There’s too much of the mundane in this world. I would never shut anybody down for venturing out of it.

So we know you love a blow pop. Well, we call them chupa chups over here. In one match, which is burned in our memory, your opponent, Catrina, manages to shove one up your a-hole. Was that something you ever thought would be happening when you got into wrestling?!
Intergender wrestling is a unique opportunity to tell a different story. So, as a storyteller, I try to be as creative and compelling as possible. A match like that, I use to empower women. It’s easy for me to be a bad guy against a woman and mock her or degrade her in the ring.
When you see that clip out of context, you miss the fact that I was being overtly macho towards her beforehand and grinding on her and feeling her up constantly. Blow Pops have become a trademark for me and I even attempted to rub one on my crotch and shove it in her mouth before she turned the tables on me. We came up with the idea of her revenge on me, not because it’s shameful to have penetration there but because it would be shocking or uncomfortable to have anything shoved into any part of your body if you weren’t prepared for it.
Did I enjoy it? I don’t sexualize anything in the ring. While I’m performing, I’m in a different mindset altogether. I’ve had no issues with my penis staying professional, when I invoke the penis flip, because again it’s a mindset.

Ah, yes, the famous penis flip. How did you come up with that?
It was actually the idea of my opponent, Danshouku Dino. He plays a homoerotic character and part of his offense is to grab his opponent’s dick to catch them off guard before slamming them with a move. We both have sexually-based characters so we wanted to really play off that. He pitched the idea of his penis grab having no effect on me because, in his words, ‘American cock is so big and so strong.’ So we decided that I’d turn the tables on him and he’d get slammed by my penis instead. The video went viral.

And is one of our favourite bookmarks. Thank you Joey Ryan.