In this episode of 10 Bell Pod, we tell the full story of Jay Briscoe.

This is not just the matches, not just the titles, but the man, the contradictions, the love, the mistakes, the growth, and the legacy that refuses to stay quiet.

From a chicken farm in rural Delaware to blood soaked Ring of Honor main events. From backyard VHS tapes to Japan, CZW, and two decades as the backbone of indie wrestling.

We talk about what made the Briscoes different.

Why they weren’t just a great tag team, but the standard.

Why every era, every promotion, every hot new team had to go through them to be taken seriously. Why Ring of Honor does not exist in any recognizable form without Jay Briscoe.

We confront the tweet. The fallout. The punishment.

The growth.

The way a single moment haunted a man for the rest of his career, and how he chose empathy, accountability, and change instead of bitterness or doubling down.

This is about how people fail and what it looks like when someone actually tries to be better.

And then we get to the ending.

The crash. The loss. The sadness.

This episode is grief.
It’s gratitude.
It’s anger.
It’s love.

It’s about a man who never needed a bigger stage to be legendary.

Reach for the sky.

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EPISODE NOTES

Jay Briscoe:

Jay Briscoe was a worker who embodied what independent wrestling actually was before it became a pipeline.

Through Jay’s life and career, the episode examines wrestling as labor, the value of authenticity over polish, and how entire scenes survive on people willing to give everything without guarantees.

• The Briscoes were infrastructure, not talent experiments. For over two decades, Jay and Mark were the backbone of Ring of Honor and the East Coast indies, consistently elevating opponents, legitimizing new acts, and holding promotions together when money, visibility, and stability were scarce.

• Indie wrestling used to be faith-based labor. Jay worked dangerous matches, drove brutal hours, and held real jobs because the work mattered, not because there was a promised next step. There was no safety net, no TV deal waiting.

• Jay was trusted because he made things feel real. Whether tagging, wrestling singles, or leading a locker room, he brought credibility, emotional weight, and violence that never felt performative.

• The tweet mattered, but so did what followed. Jay said something harmful, faced real consequences, apologized repeatedly, changed his behavior, and spent the rest of his life proving growth through actions, not branding.

• Great wrestling creates community, not content. Jay’s work helped define why people cared deeply about Ring of Honor, AEW’s spiritual roots, and wrestling as something worth believing in.