Insane Clown Posse's Violent J details pro wrestling career as he gears up for Bloodymania 19 at Juggalo event

Pro wrestling tin person the quality to genuinely scope each corners of the world.

In the U.S., immoderate idiosyncratic could look to their near oregon their close and find a idiosyncratic who loves the sport. Let’s instrumentality Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse for example. Most whitethorn cognize him arsenic 1 portion of the notorious hip-hop group, but others whitethorn retrieve him for pro wrestling.

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Violent J of Insane Clown Posse performs during the 2025 Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash astatine SeatGeek Stadium successful Bridgeview, Ill., connected June 22, 2025. (Barry Brecheisen/Getty Images)

The 54-year-old Michigan autochthonal successful 1983 and started backmost up successful the 1990s, appearing successful Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) earlier starting Juggalo Championship Wrestling (JCW) successful 1999.

Violent J told Fox News Digital that his pro wrestling fandom goes backmost to earlier helium was a teenager.

"I've been a wrestling instrumentality my full life. I had it acceptable arsenic a extremity successful my beingness that I would beryllium a wrestler. And if anything, I was learning successful schoolhouse didn't pertain to being a wrestler, I didn't listen. It was each astir being a wrestler. And it wasn't thing I wanted oregon I hoped oregon I dreamed about. It was thing I knew perfectly without a shadiness of a uncertainty I was going to beryllium a wrestler and Shaggy (2 Dope) excessively with nary question astir it," helium said. "But erstwhile I turned 19, oregon astir apt 17, hip-hop started to overtake that dream, that goal, similar hip-hop started to overtake that emotion and we tried to combat it due to the fact that for truthful agelong we had acceptable our goals that we were going to beryllium wrestlers and we knew we were going to beryllium wrestlers. Failure wasn't an option. But hip-hop started to overtake that love.

"So, we fought it for a agelong time. But erstwhile we decided the emotion for hip-hop was stronger, determination was nary turning back. Next happening you know, we knew without a shadiness of a uncertainty we were going to beryllium rappers. You cognize what I'm saying? But it's comic due to the fact that from the property of 12 to astir 17 oregon 18, we had already applied each that karma toward being wrestlers. We had already applied each that. It manifested connected its own."

He said helium and Shaggy 2 Dope received a telephone from the WWF to nutrient euphony from a tag squad called The Oddities, but it turned into their ain tally successful the company.

"So, erstwhile we were 26 and we had our archetypal golden album, the WWF astatine the clip called america and said, ‘Hey man, we privation you guys to marque the ringing euphony for this squad we person called the Oddities.’ And we were like, ‘Do you guys cognize that we wrestle? We were really wrestling connected the autarkic scene. And you know, maine and Shaggy some were wrestling erstwhile we were similar 18, 19, we were wrestling astir the Midwest adjacent though we knew we were going to beryllium rappers, we were inactive had a emotion for it," helium said. "So, we were doing it benignant of arsenic fun. But erstwhile the WWF called each those years later, we were like, ‘Do you guys cognize that we wrestle?’ And they were like, ‘We had nary idea.’

Violent J of Insane Clown Posse attends the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards astatine UBS Arena successful Elmont, N.Y. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for MTV)

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"So, they flew america retired to Stanford, Connecticut, wherever we had the wrestling match. We wrestled each other. We wrestled Bruce Pritchard oregon was it Tom Pritchard, 1 of those guys. So, I mean, similar adjacent happening you know, we were debuting astatine SummerSlam astatine Madison Square Garden. But yeah, man, it's similar that imagination came backmost and manifested itself due to the fact that we had already applied each that affirmative vigor toward it. It's beauteous crazy, man, however that worked."

The emotion Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope had for pro wrestling manifested into their ain promotion – Juggalo Championship Wrestling.

He recalled the archetypal amusement the 2 enactment unneurotic and however fans were skeptical that they were going to beryllium successful the ring.

"After we went to WWE and we went to WCW, we decided to bash it ourselves, too. So, we started our ain promotion and really we were I'm trying to retrieve if we were moving show, we were moving shows earlier we went to WWF," helium told Fox News Digital. "We were moving our ain shows successful Detroit. ICP was. I'll ne'er hide the archetypal clip ICP wrestled successful beforehand of a assemblage arsenic Violent Jay and Shaggy. They didn't cognize we had thing to bash with wrestling. The fans didn't cognize thing that we utilized to beryllium wrestlers. They had nary idea. Back then, determination was nary internet. They didn't cognize we utilized to beryllium wrestlers. They didn't cognize thing astir it.

"We enactment the flyer retired and said, ‘It's going to beryllium Violent J and Shaggy Too Dope, Insane Clown Posse, versus the Chicken Boys,’ these 2 redneck guys with rebel flags, successful a alloy cage. And the amusement is going to beryllium called Strangle Mania Live. Man, that venue sold out. People were like, ‘What are we gonna see? Are they really gonna wrestle?’ Because they lone knew america arsenic musicians. You cognize what I'm saying? They were like, ‘Are they gonna wrestle? What is this?’ And definite enough, man, we wrestled our a-- off, man. And I'll ne'er hide that show. That was 1 of the top nights of my life. But of course, aft ICP stepped into the ring, it was implicit from there. You cognize what I mean? We had to spell everywhere. We tried to spell to each large promotion determination was."

The popularity of JCW has lone grown from there.

Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope of Insane Clown Posse be the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards astatine UBS Arena successful Elmont, New York, connected Sept. 11, 2024. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

The promotions runs a play Thursday nighttime amusement connected YouTube called "Lunacy." It besides runs a flagship lawsuit astatine the yearly Juggalo carnival called Gathering of the Juggalos called Bloodymania.

Bloodymania 19 volition instrumentality spot connected Aug. 20 and 21 astatine Mother Nature’s Riverfront Retreat successful Macks Creek, Missouri.

"Man, the champion our promotion tin do. JCW, Juggalo Championship Wrestling," helium told Fox News Digital. "We're connected each Thursday. nighttime astatine 7 o’clock Eastern connected YouTube. We supply thing for everybody. I warrant you who you are, nary substance wherever you're from successful beingness oregon who you are successful life, you're going to find thing you similar astir JCW. That's a fact. I situation anybody to ticker an full occurrence of ‘Lunacy,’ the amusement is called ‘Lunacy,’ and spot if there's not thing you bask greatly, not conscionable thing you benignant of like. You're going to find thing you truly like. No substance who you are, each walks of life. We purpose to entertain them all.

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"And Bloody Mania takes spot from The Gathering. It's Bloody Mania 19. It's our 19th clip having Bloody Mania. And it's similar our WrestleMania obviously. It's similar our large deal. Happens astatine The Gathering of the Juggalos, which is our large instrumentality festival each year. And it's similar we're astatine home. We're bringing the amusement close astatine location successful the successful the heavy of things, successful the bosom of the Juggalo Nation. It's cool. It's a large feeling and you tin consciousness it successful the air. Even aft 19 times, it's inactive there. It's thick. You could chopped it."