The Sport of Men

Younger wrestlers like to point out that boys play basketball but men wrestle.  That's all well and good in high school, but sometimes a wrestler can find himself to be just a boy among men.  That happens in a wrestling video at No Rules Wrestling when a little dude named Skeeter steps into the ring to face Tiki Pepper.  Before the action begins, Tiki warns Skeeter that this is a man's game, but Skeeter insists he's ready.  Of course, it doesn't take long for the much larger Tiki to take control.  The size disparity really becomes evident when Tiki picks Skeeter up for a bearhug.  The dude is huge.  Tiki is 6' 2" and 210 pounds, and in his arms the little 125 pound Skeeter looks like a child.  It's the classic big versus little wrestling match which I like to see now and then.  At one point, Tiki really wants to gorilla press Skeeter, but he's prevented from doing so by the low ceiling at the NRW studios.  That's too bad because I wanted to see it as much as Tiki wanted to do it, but the ease with which Tiki holds little Skeeter in the air is pretty impressive.

NRW put Skeeter and Tiki together in the ring in a couple of other videos, too.  Surely there has to be some violation of child labor laws in doing this, but I won't complain.

The wife beater and military fatigues in the first picture is a good look for Tiki as he carries Skeeter around the ring.  And he's impressive in another match when he effortlessly scoops Skeeter off the ground and hoists him high into the air.  There can be no dispute that Tiki Pepper is the true alpha wrestler in these match ups.