{"id":30832,"date":"2018-11-14T17:09:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T22:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=30832"},"modified":"2019-06-03T08:36:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:36:12","slug":"emerging-west-coast-indie-star-jungle-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/11\/14\/emerging-west-coast-indie-star-jungle-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Indie Star Jungle Boy Added to Joey Janela&#8217;s LA Confidential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that Joey Janela&#8217;s series of shows, from\u00a0<em><strong>Spring Break\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>to\u00a0<em><strong>Lost in New York,<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and now to <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/11\/11\/preview-gcw-joey-janelas-la-confidential-11-16-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Friday&#8217;s <em><strong>LA Confidential<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (all produced by New Jersey&#8217;s <strong>Game Changer Wrestling<\/strong>), all have in common is not just the inclusion of legends like <strong>Marty Jannetty, D&#8217;Lo Brown, Glacier<\/strong> and <strong>The Great Sasuke<\/strong>, but the breakout stars they&#8217;ve helped push. This year alone, the series has helped make <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/05\/03\/pco-the-redemption-of-pierre-carl-ouellette\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>PCO<\/strong> (aka former 3x WWE Tag Team Champion Quebecer Pierre)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/08\/18\/size-doesnt-matter-when-youre-the-guy-marko-stunt-makes-his-mark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Southern indie wrestler <strong>Marko Stunt<\/strong><\/a> into two of the biggest breakout names of 2018.\u00a0It&#8217;s with this mentality to cultivate and expose new talent that Joey Janela announced another match for this Friday&#8217;s event, that will see GCW regular and bad-ass <strong>Tony Deppen<\/strong> face one of the West Coast&#8217;s emerging young stars in 21-year old <strong>Jungle Boy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/JANELABABY\/status\/1062819241727025152<\/p>\n<p>As <strong>Nate Coy<\/strong>, he made his debut as an 18-year old in 2015, working with Los Angeles&#8217; <strong>Underground Empire Wrestling (UEW)<\/strong>, where he continued to develop throughout 2016. Working alongside West Coast vets like <strong>Peter Avalon, Human Tornado<\/strong>, and more, by the end of the year, he captured the UEW West Coast Bruiser Cup 2016. By 2017, he moved on to <strong>All Pro Wrestling (APW)<\/strong>, where he&#8217;s currently the APW Junior Heavyweight Champion, and more popularly known as Jungle Boy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BWCW: Justin Mane vs. &quot;Jungle Boy&quot; Jack Perry (02.03.2018) FIRST EVER ENCOUNTER!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gCHoeBHqESM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s worked several other California indies as well, including <strong>Revolution Pro Wrestling USA (RPW), Maverick Pro<\/strong>, and <strong>Gold Rush Pro Wrestling (GRPW)<\/strong>, and has even worked for <strong>Ultimo Dragon<\/strong>&#8216;s promotion <strong>Toryumon Mexico<\/strong>, competing at <em><strong>DragonMania XIII<\/strong><\/em> this May in Arena Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"La Migra, Vapor, Jungle Boy y Vinnie Massaro vs Musashi ,Douki ,Zeus, Jun Akiyama.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XktBeRMLo8w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If the name Nate Coy sounds familiar though, you may recall a story a few years back when he was just starting out, when his famous father was photographed cheering him at UEW in his early days. That man just happens to be former <em><strong>Beverly Hills 90210<\/strong><\/em> alumn <strong>Luke Perry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ultimo Dragon &amp; Jungle Boy vs Vapor &amp; Vinnie Massaro\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/joep2SaBweE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that Joey Janela&#8217;s series of shows, from\u00a0Spring Break\u00a0to\u00a0Lost in New York,\u00a0and now to this Friday&#8217;s LA Confidential (all produced by New Jersey&#8217;s Game Changer Wrestling), all have in common is not just the inclusion of legends like Marty Jannetty, D&#8217;Lo Brown, Glacier and The Great Sasuke, but the breakout stars they&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":30836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5274,6],"tags":[2151,1833,3536,3868,3869,3867],"class_list":["post-30832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-gcw","category-north-america","tag-game-changer-wrestling","tag-gcw","tag-joey-janelas-la-confidential","tag-jungle-boy","tag-nate-coy","tag-tony-deppen"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}