Psycho Boy Fodder: Indy Wrestling Schedules, Angelina Love, EC3, Bodybuilding

Although he was born Merton Woolard, wrestling fans have become more familiar with his wrestling persona Psycho Boy Fodder over the past few years. After becoming friends with former TNA World Champion EC3, Wollard made his professional wrestling debut in 2021 as part of the Free Your Narrative shows.

In the years that followed, Fodder has made appearances in the NWA, WrestleCade and independent promotions all over the United States, facing notable stars such as Carlito, Killer Kross and Joe Hendry, challenging the latter for the TNA World Title at AML Rise to the Top.

On Wrestling Life, Fodder joins Ben Veal to discuss his packed 2025 schedule, being married to TNA Hall of Famer Angelina Love, and which former TNA World Champion is his ultimate dream match:

• How Fodder has successfully promoted himself on the independent scene

• How he got the moniker “Physcho Boy” and how he is able to disconnect from the character behind the curtain

• Being married to Angelina Love and being ringside for her TNA Hall of Fame induction

• Debuting in EC3’s Free The Narrative series

• A possible NWA return

• Ultimate dream match

Psycho Boy Fodder on his insane indy wrestling schedule:

Fodder competed in matches all around the country in 2025. Much like the past two years, he is looking to keep the momentum going in 2026:

"Man, I think 2025 has been a whirlwind. I think it was just like 2024 kind of leading into that. I worked with a lot of big-name guys in 2024 and my mindset was just kind of making sure that I could keep that momentum going. I mean, keeping that momentum going in wrestling is kind of hard to do, especially if you're doing it on the Indies, you just have to be very, very, very consistent with everything that you're doing. So we ended off 2024, we had the big Wrestle Cage showdown with me and Elijah. Me and my wife were just talking, and one of the things that we kind of had in mind was we had ran into JBL at a signing that we were doing, and we kind of chatted with him a little bit. The next thing I knew, he was showing up and helping me win matches, that generated a lot of buzz, and then we kind of just played off of that, and things have just been rolling."

On promoting himself on the independents:

Aware of the importance of branding and self-promotion, Fodder explained why he ensures that he follows a template when it comes to promoting his work, both in-ring and online:

"Branding is just so important to everything that you do for yourself, just in the wrestling business, or really anything. I mean Coca-Cola. Yeah, they're selling sodas, but they're really selling the brand. So just kind of having that mentality of I'm very big on presentation. I'm sure you see this all the time, you'll see posters and flyers and match graphics for indie shows that just look like they were made on Microsoft Paint. I found a good designer as a friend of mine, Kunall. He does all my stuff. I just kind of stick with him, because I kind of like everything to be uniform.

The same way as if you go to my YouTube channel, everything is just uniform. It all looks the same, the presentation is good, and if somebody is not familiar with your work, when they see your work, you want them to go okay, this is somebody, because all of the stuff looks good, all the opponents that this person is facing, they're all names that I know, and even for just visibility on YouTube, because you're marketing all your stuff on YouTube as well. You want when somebody is searching for a Joe Hendry or a Moose, or whoever it is, you want your stuff to kind of filter into that, so if somebody's not familiar with you, you can get those eyes on you off of them."

On the inspiration behind the Fodder name:

Developing a friendship with EC3 before making his debut, Fodder explained how he got the name and why he was the biggest fan of it at first:

"So prior to me ever getting involved in wrestling, EC3 was a good friend of mine, and when he got released from WWE, he had hit me up, and we just kind of like had briefly talked about me kind of training and doing some wrestling stuff. He was like, ‘Hey man, I'm doing this thing.’ I don't even think he knew what to call it at the time, but it's going to be like this cinematic wrestling thing. He goes, ’I don't know what it's going to do, but I need somebody to fight in this thing. You're the perfect person.’ Because I think, at the time, they were pitching him some people, but he wanted somebody that nobody had ever seen before. He was like, ‘Dude, you look great. You're a bodybuilder, and nobody's ever seen you before, and you look crazy because you got all the tattoos and everything.’ He was like, ‘We'll do this. Maybe something will come of it, or maybe nothing comes of it, and it just ends up being like a cool piece of art that you were involved in.’ So I think he hit me up on a Wednesday, and I was like, well, when are you doing this? And he was like, Saturday. So I hopped a flight, went down there. That's originally where I met Adam Scherr, or Braun Strowman. I met Moose for the first time there, Spud, I met him, and it was kind of like mid-COVID.

We went down there, we shot it, and I think this was the first time where I was on set for what I would consider a big-budget production. It wasn't a big budget production, but the way it's set up, and you got agents there kind of putting everything together, so it's kind of like my introduction to a bigger something in the wrestling world. We did that, and then EC3 kind of got into doing the full-fledged productions of the Free the Narrative series. So on the first Free the Narrative series, he had me, John Skyler, Matt Cardona, Matt Sydal, Moose, just lots of guys that were involved in that production.

He texted me one day, and he was like, ‘I think we're just gonna call you Fodder.’ I told him that's a terrible wrestling name, just absolutely terrible. He said, ‘But we'll just call you Psycho Boy Fodder.’ The idea behind it is that fodder is kind of like somebody that's kind of getting fed to somebody, and that's kind of how it was when we shot that first vignette, right? It was just kind of like EC3 bumping me around or beating me up. We did it. I kind of rolled with it against my better judgment. I was like, okay, man, if that's what you want to do, cool, we'll see how it works out. What do you want me to wear? He was like, you'll just wear black jeans and black boots. Okay, cool deal. Then after that, once it got released, people were kind of hitting me up for indie bookings and things like that; they wanted that character. So over time, it was just kind of developing something that I thought was absolutely terrible, and it ended up working out for me."

On his wife Angelina Love's TNA Hall of Fame induction:

Fodder is married to Angelina Love, who rose to fame in TNA as part of The Beautiful People faction. Fodder elaborated on being honoured to sit ringside as his wife received her recognition:

"Oh, it was great, man. I'm very happy for her to be recognised. I did an interview with your pal from Rewind Recap Relive, Jonah. I told him I don't really like to use the word revolutionised, because you use it all the time, ‘This person, they revolutionised the business.’ I kind of like to use the term they made their mark on the wrestling business with what they did. I think their group was the first kind of group, or kind of girl-based characters of that nature where they're the mean girls and, ‘We're pretty, you're ugly.’ That type of thing.

My wife's a great wrestler in the ring. She's got a great mind for the wrestling business, and getting inducted into the Hall of Fame is something that she definitely deserves, for sure. So just to have her family there. They came down from Canada, her son, and then just all of our friends too. I mean, we have so many friends at TNA, and just to kind of have everybody there, and everybody was very upbeat and positive about it, man. So it was definitely a cool night, for sure."

On his early wrestling fandom:

A child of the 80s, Fodder joins many fans in being inspired by the golden age of WWF with stars from the 90s such as Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels serving as a huge inspiration:

"I was born in 1986, so just all the early 90s stuff. I remember my dad taking me to the videotape store, we had Video Hut and like Blockbuster and all that. You could go in there and you could rent the Coliseum home videos, like Best of Ultimate Warrior, or Best of Bret Hart. They had just so many of those Coliseum home videos. Guys that I watched, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Tatanka, IRS, Ted DiBiase, I mean, everybody was a something. I think for the most part, once you make it to television, and you're doing television wrestling, everybody's kind of a something at TV as well. Everybody's kind of got their thing that they do.

So once I told a guy, I was just looking at everybody who was at NWA when I was working there. Chris Masters was The Masterpiece, Kamille was The Brick House, you had [Nick] Aldis and [Thom] Latimer, they’re the British guys. EC3, he's kind of the top 1% so everybody's kind of something. You got the Psycho Boy, Psycho Girl. They've got their characters and their things that they do. So to speak to what you're saying earlier is when you're taking your kids to watch wrestling, you don't want to be the guy that walks down out of the curtain, and the dad is there with his son, and he's leaning over to his son going, ‘Man, I could kick this guy's ass right here.’ Because he doesn't look like nothing.

Part of the allure of professional wrestling is seeing people that are larger than life. I'm not saying everybody needs to look like a bodybuilder, but I'm saying the presentation is kind of out of this world, right? There's a reason why they are in the ring and the people watching are behind the barricade, I mean, and it should always be like that. I think when you get to that point where the guy walking through the curtain looks like a UPS driver, it just takes a lot of the mystique away from the wrestling."

On advice for those looking to make a lifestyle change:

Admitting he was previously overweight, Fodder made a commitment to get in better shape for his pro wrestling career. With many hoping to also be more health concious, Fodder gave advice on where to start:

"I get a lot of requests from people about can you help me with my diet, or help me with my nutrition, or my workouts and stuff like that. One of the best things that I learned is to take it one thing at a time. So if you're coming from a place where you're just eating complete rubbish, and just eating whatever, whatever you want, whenever you want, how about one meal at a time, right? So instead of you coming to me, and when you ask me for advice, I tell you, ‘You got to eat six meals a day, and you eat every three hours and do all that.’ That's a huge catastrophic change. Whereas, if I ask you, ‘Hey, can you just eat one clean meal a day.’ Then you start with one, and then once you kind of master one, then I go, ‘Okay, man, can we do two now?’ Then you do two, right? Then before you know it, in two to three months now you're eating six meals a day, and you're doing 30 minutes of cardio a day, and then that slowly just starts to become a normal lifestyle for you.

That's the best advice I would give to people, and just don't give up. When you first start, it's hard, no different than going to wrestling school. When you first start taking the bumps, it doesn't feel great, but after a while, your body starts to acclimate to it. So sticking with it and not giving up, that's the best decision you can ever make, because it's never over unless you give up."

On his time in the National Wrestling Alliance:

From 2022 to late 2023, Fodder was signed to the NWA promotion and competed in 15 matches for the company. Fodder looked back on his time competing in NWA and whether a return could happen:

"I would say overall, my time was fine at NWA. Ricky Morton was pretty much responsible for getting me a gig. Ricky Morton actually called me after, I believe it was the 74 pay-per-view. He said, ‘Hey, can you come to Nashville? We're doing TV tapings on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. I ended up showing up, they gave me a match. It was like a dark match that they ended up using on the television program, and they basically verbally hired me that day, in a sense, and that's where I met my wife. I worked a lot of good guys there, and once we made our exit from NWA, we didn't leave NWA on any bad terms or anything like that, it’s just I think they had a vision of what they wanted to do, and we had a vision of what we wanted to do.

One thing that I always say is if you're at a crossroads with people, it's okay to take a step back and say hey, I respect what you guys are trying to do, but I think we're going to go over here and we're going to do this, and I'm going to bet on myself that the vision that I have for what we're trying to do is going to work. I think leaving there and doing what we're doing now has been very beneficial to us. I like NWA, and that's not to say that we'll never go back there and do anything with them again. I'm always open to dialogue if there were some ideas for programs and things like that for us to potentially go back and do some stuff. Latimer is a really good friend of mine. EC3 is a really good friend of mine. We have a lot of friends that work there. So a lot of it just kind of comes down to the creative and does it make sense? If it does, we're always open to it, and maybe we'll cross that bridge again sometime."

On a future wrestling dream match with Jeff Jarrett:

With the independent wrestling scene playing host to countless possibilities of dream matches, Fodder is hoping that he can get in the ring with Jeff Jarrett, and explained why Double J is the number one pick:

"Jeff Jarrett is the guy that I want to hop in the ring with. We tried to make it happen this year. Actually, the story is the show where I worked Cardona, where me and Lauren worked Cardona in the handicap match. That show was actually supposed to be me versus Jeff Jarrett. I mean, he's got his AEW schedule. Then what's so crazy about it is that was the match we were shooting for. He ended up saying that he couldn't do it. So then Cardona stepped in. We ended up doing the program with Cardona. Then Mark Henry was on the show, and he had to pull off for some reason, and then Jeff Jarrett ended up replacing Mark Henry a week or a week and a half before the show. So we had already been advertising the Cardona match, and that's what all the fans were looking forward to seeing. So hopefully down the road we get something, me and Jarrett can get in the ring and kind of do the dance. He's just an incredible worker.

Watching him like growing up, watching matches like him and Shawn Michaels. When you're a fan, and you're watching wrestling and you're just watching it for entertainment, you can't really appreciate how good people actually are. But when you actually become a wrestler, you're a worker, and you're watching stuff for study and things of that purpose. I watch like a guy like Jeff Jarrett, I'm just like, man, this guy is just incredible in the ring. Just strikes the way he puts things together. Me and him briefly talked at the show where Cardona and I just kind of ripped him a little bit. And was just like, hey, man, like, hey man, like, you know, we got to get in the ring and we got to do some stuff. So hopefully that will play out within the next, you know, six to eight months."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alex Hunt is and has been a professional wrestling fan for over 20 years after getting hooked on WWE SmackDown every Saturday morning during the Ruthless Aggression Era.

Along with being the owner and writer for news and analysis website Features of Wrestling, Alex is also the transcriber and researcher for Chris Van Vliet. He previously worked for Inside The Ropes as the head writer and transcriber with more than 5,000 articles published, and was also on AEW media calls with Tony Khan.

When Alex isn’t writing about wrestling professionally, he spends the majority of his spare time running, playing guitar or watching F1 with his cat Ron.