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Pro wrestler Joey Ryan is the talk of social media after a recent toe-curling encounter with former WWE Champion Mick Foley at Dublin's National Stadium on Saturday.

Ryan, who has recently appeared on Netflix's new hit show GLOW, used his infamous 'YouPorn Plex' to fend off the hardcore legend at Over The Top Wrestling's big Wrestlerama event, which drew a crowd of around 2,000 people to Dublin's National Stadium before a further show in Belfast the following night.

The independent wrestling star has appeared in some way shape or form for every big promotion one could name, but rose to internet fame when he introduced the risqué move to his arsenal.

"It [the move], came about from the gentleman who I was wrestling named Danshoku Dino," Ryan told Irish Mirror online in an exclusive chat at the show.

"Because of the differences in political correctness, he can be a bit more forward with his homosexual character that he plays. So he plays a gay character who freaks out opponents by grabbing them by the junk and then he does a move when they're freaking out.

"He does it with a lot of Japanese wrestlers, but his idea when I wrestled him was that he would grab me, and I wouldn't sell the move because, in his words, 'American c*** is so big and so strong.' So i thought, 'yeah, of course, right? Who am I to argue?'

"We thought about what to do and he decided to take a bump on it after I fired up and we didn't think much about it. Then he said he would flip bump with it and it was kind of an afterthought that we didn't think much about. We didn't really plan much into it.

"Then that 27 second clip I threw on the internet because it made me laugh was everywhere!"

Joey Ryan's star would continue to rise after the viral success; he was signed up to join a division of popular adult website YouPorn called 'YouPorn Sports' at the end of 2015, and has gone from strength to strength since.

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"YouPorn wanted to do something in sports... They could have any porn star represent them but they wanted someone who maybe wouldn't normally, or they just wanted someone with an outside influence to be involved in their brand so that they could stand out over other websites that are out there.

"Maybe they don't realise how close the pro wrestling fanbase and the porn fanbase is..."

Ryan's mainstream relevance wouldn't stop with just one big video and a massive sponsorship deal though; after appearing in a bizarre variety show in LA, he scored himself his first television acting role as one of the wrestlers that the girls of GLOW model themselves after in an episode the hit Netflix show.

"I do this show called Lucha Vavoom in Los Angeles that the writer's of GLOW go to. It's not really a wrestling show it's sort of a variety thing with burlesque dancing and comedy wrestling.

"So when they decided to do GLOW, they didn't really know anything about wrestling. So they hit up my wife and I and they wanted a run down of wrestling. So we went in and they were very nice but we really didn't expect anything more from it.

"Then when they were filming the show they called us up and they said 'we've got a spot for you guys and it would be really cool if you could come and do it'. That ended up being the Mr. Monopoly character for me, and the valet character for my wife."

Ryan admits that he was a fan of the show when it eventually was released earlier this year to rave reviews from critics.