Fabian Cazares Roundtable Pro Wrestling interview on Midnight Sons

In the Fabian Cazares Roundtable Pro Wrestling interview, the wrestler known as PJ Freak told us he wants to expand Midnight Sons and win the Independent World Tag Team Championship. He also traced his move from MMA to professional wrestling to a broken hand and said Combat Pro Wrestling helped save his career.

How did Fabian Cazares develop PJ Freak and learn lucha libre and strong style?

Fabian Cazares developed two sides of PJ Freak: Psycho Clown PJ Freak, whom he described as darker, and Broken Heart PJ Freak, whom he presents as a good character. His wrestling style draws most heavily on lucha libre training with Dragon Quetzal, while strong style connects to the combat sports he practiced before wrestling.

Cazares said he initially trained himself and learned small amounts from someone who owned a ring. Money limited how much that person could teach him. Meeting Dragon Quetzal gave him sustained instruction in lucha libre, which became the style he used most in his wrestling.

He has also attended seminars on strong style. To Cazares, lucha libre emphasizes speed and showmanship but demands exhausting training. He prefers strong style slightly because its hard contact feels closer to his earlier experience with MMA. Before wrestling, he practiced Muay Thai, Jeet Kune Do and Capoeira; he said a broken hand ended that path and led him into professional wrestling.

His characters give those physical styles different presentations. Cazares described Psycho Clown PJ Freak as an evil presence, while Broken Heart PJ Freak is meant to show that broken emotions can have a positive place in wrestling.

How did Fabian Cazares's wrestling career reach Roundtable Pro Wrestling?

Fabian Cazares's wrestling career moved through a masked start as Alma Negra, a change to Prince Jester, Portland death matches and work for several Pacific Northwest promotions. He credited Combat Pro Wrestling with booking him more often at a crucial point before he eventually joined Roundtable Pro Wrestling.

From Alma Negra to Prince Jester

As Alma Negra, Cazares wore a mask and worked in talent-enhancement roles, including appearances for local lucha promotions and a trip to Portland Lucha. He said few people would remember that version of him: he was smaller, his face was covered, and he struggled to see well enough to wrestle in the mask.

Taking it off meant finding a new character. He chose Prince Jester, which he described as the beginning of PJ Freak and the source of the initials PJ.

Portland death matches and new bookings

Fabian Cazares on death matches was clear: he respected the wrestlers who kept doing them, but the toll was too much for him. He reached the third round on his first attempt at the Portland death matches and the fifth round when he returned the following year. Going to his regular job with bandages on his face helped convince him to stop.

He then focused on regular wrestling and worked with Dragon Quetzal at TPLL. Cazares said Combat Pro Wrestling, or CPW, later booked him more often and placed him in the Clown Mob, helping save his career. After working for IPW and leaving both promotions following disagreements, he joined Roundtable Pro Wrestling. Approaching a year there, he called its locker room the best he had shared.

What did Fabian Cazares say about Midnight Sons and Monster Nation?

Fabian Cazares on Midnight Sons said the team intends to recruit new members, challenge other tag teams and pursue the Independent World Tag Team Championship. He sees it as more than his current partnership with Wolfie. A recent win over Monster Nation and a subsequent title opportunity at Rose City Comic Con have sharpened that ambition.

During our conversation, I noted that Cazares and Wolfie had defeated the former tag team champions Monster Nation in a six-minute match, then fallen short in a championship match at Rose City Comic Con. Cazares welcomed the assessment that the teams stood at one win apiece, without claiming the title-match loss was anything else.

His next step is to find people who fit the group. Cazares invited Roundtable Pro Wrestling tag teams and other potential opponents to face Midnight Sons so they can establish their name. He described the planned expansion in terms of finding family members, not simply adding wrestlers to a team.

What does Fabian Cazares want from the Independent TV Championship?

Fabian Cazares wants to become Independent World Tag Team Champion with Midnight Sons and eventually win the Independent TV Championship himself. He said he has repeatedly come up short in pursuits of a TV title. He also signaled a more vicious side of PJ Freak for October 18, saying crowds already treat him like a villain.

When I asked about his longer-term plans, Cazares named the tag title first, then the TV title and the expansion of Midnight Sons. The singles goal has a particular hold on him because he regards his previous failures to win a TV championship as a pattern he needs to break.

Cazares gave his most direct explanation of the urgency behind those plans:

I'm tired of being the last guy, you know? I'm tired of falling short.

He said he had tried to present himself as a good guy even as audiences booed him. His promise for October 18 was that they would see a more vicious PJ Freak. We also discussed our OIWA United States Championship match, which Cazares nearly won, and Christopher Crowley's interference afterward; Cazares said he wanted another chance at that championship in the future.

What did Fabian Cazares say about ICP, Matt Bourne and Pagano?

Fabian Cazares said he would choose Matt Bourne as an all-time tag partner and Pagano as an opponent. His answers followed a conversation about the juggalo community and ICP, a connection visible in his hatchet man tattoo. For Cazares, Bourne also mattered as an influence on his decision to wrestle as a clown.

ICP and Matt Bourne

Asked whom he could team with from any era, Cazares first considered ICP or Vampiro before settling on Matt Bourne. He said Bourne was one reason, alongside being a juggalo, that he started wrestling as a clown. Cazares also recalled learning from his friend Echo side that Coolio was a juggalo; he said he had found that out roughly four or five years earlier.

A clown-versus-clown match with Pagano

For a feud, his choice was Pagano. Cazares framed the appeal as a contest over who could be the extreme clown, and said he would bring Psycho Clown PJ Freak rather than the Broken Heart character to that matchup.

Why did Fabian Cazares criticize Roman Reigns and Triple H?

Fabian Cazares on Roman Reigns and Triple H began with a hypothetical question about whom he would fire. He initially chose Reigns because he believes full-time WWE wrestlers deserve more opportunities than a part-time star. He then changed his answer to Triple H and offered a personal criticism of his position in the company.

Cazares acknowledged that Reigns makes money for WWE, but argued that other wrestlers on Raw have the talent to contribute more if given the chance. His objection centered on how opportunities are distributed, rather than a claim that Reigns cannot draw an audience.

He subsequently said he would not actually fire Reigns. Instead, he named Triple H and speculated about Triple H's motives for joining Stephanie McMahon's family. Those were Cazares's opinions in response to the hypothetical, not established facts about either person's private life or career decisions.

What did Fabian Cazares say about Katie Cassidy, Derek Drexel and Tyler LeBeau?

Fabian Cazares chose Katie Cassidy as a local wrestler he would team with and Derek Drexel as one he would feud with. Asked whom he would fire locally, he named Tyler LeBeau, alleging that LeBeau had mistreated his tag partner at Rose City Comic Con. Cazares said that experience affected an event he otherwise valued.

Working with Katie Cassidy and facing Derek Drexel

Cazares made clear that he valued his existing partnership with Wolfie, but picked Cassidy for the hypothetical team. He said they had met while wrestling and that Cassidy later recognized him at a 5CC show and suggested they would work together one day. Cazares believes Cassidy has knowledge to share.

Drexel appealed to a different part of Cazares's background. Cazares pointed to their experience with death matches and hardcore wrestling and said their characters made a feud feel natural: Drexel as a demon, himself as a devilish clown.

His allegation about Tyler LeBeau

Cazares said LeBeau, the new Ascension Pro Wrestling Heavyweight Champion, had picked on Wolfie during Rose City Comic Con and left his partner distressed. He praised the chance to wrestle before that crowd and the opportunity it represented for Roundtable Pro Wrestling, while saying LeBeau's alleged behavior made the experience uneasy for him.