Get Your Bell Rung Pro Wrestling Podcast Joe Malenko interview December 15 2025

In professional wrestling, we often talk about royalty.

We talk about the Hart family, where technical excellence was passed down generation to generation.
We talk about the Samoan bloodline, whose legacy dominates every era they touch.
We talk about the Guerreros, a family that blended heart, culture, and unmatched passion inside the ring.

But there is another royal family in professional wrestling—one that doesn’t always get mentioned first, yet may be just as influential, if not more.

A family whose legacy isn’t just about what they accomplished between the ropes, but about what they gave to the business itself.

That family is the Malenkos.

The Malenko name represents discipline, realism, toughness, and respect for the craft. This is a bloodline that produced elite wrestlers—but just as importantly, it produced teachers, trainers, and architects of greatness. Their fingerprints are all over modern professional wrestling.

The Malenko family helped mold legends like Glenn “Kane” Jacobs, a future WWE Hall of Famer and one of the most iconic characters of all time.
They helped shape stars like Marc Mero whose athleticism and charisma made him a standout across WCW and WWE.
They trained minds and bodies like Gangrel, Norman Smiley, Barry Horowitz, Fred Ottman, Bob Cook, and Bob Orton Jr.—performers who helped define entire eras, whether as main-eventers, innovators, or trusted veterans.

And through the Malenko system—its philosophy, its standards, its demand for excellence—you can trace a direct line to some of the greatest technical wrestlers of all time. The influence runs through names like Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, and Perry Saturn—men who changed what wrestling looked like in WCW and WWE and raised the bar for generations that followed.

Tonight, we are joined by a man who didn’t just live that legacy—he helped build it.

A wrestler.
A trainer.
A keeper of one of the most important bloodlines in professional wrestling history.

Tonight on Get Your Bell Rung Pro Wrestling Podcast, we present a special, deeply personal interview with wrestling veteran Jody Simon a.k.a. Joe Malenko.

This isn’t just a career retrospective — it’s an honest, emotional conversation about legacy, sacrifice, and family. Joe opens up about growing up under the guidance of his father, the legendary Boris Malenko, the realities of breaking into the business during the toughest era of professional wrestling, and the physical and emotional toll that came with it.

Joe also speaks candidly about his lifelong bond with his brother Dean Malenko — from their early days learning the craft, to watching Dean rise on a national stage, and what that journey meant to him as both a brother and a professional. We talk about the grind of the road, the lessons learned the hard way, respect in the locker room, and what today’s wrestlers may never fully understand about the business.

This is a raw, respectful, and reflective conversation with one of wrestling’s true journeymen — a man who lived the business, paid the price, and helped carry the Malenko name with pride.

If you love real wrestling stories, honest insight, and the history that built this industry, you won’t want to miss this episode.

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