No Respect

My last post with the flashback on Mr Destiny got me thinking about other wrestlers and wrestling matches from the past.  And that got me thinking about Vinny Trevino, a wrestler at BG East many years ago who captured my attention around the time I began my exciting journey into this mysterious world of underground wrestling.  I remember liking Vinny from the start for many reasons, one being his name.  Back in high school there was this one wrestler on another team named Vinny who caught my attention one season.  A swarthy Italian, he clearly stood out from the rest of us corn fed Midwestern white boys.  I always wanted to wrestle him, but we were different weight classes, so it never happened. 

I also liked Vinny Trevino from the start because of his looks.  With his dark hair, olive complexion, masculine features, and incredible physique, he was the epitome of health and fitness.  Make him a wrestler on top of all that, and Vinny Trevino is hard to beat.

Vinny Trevino only wrestled in about seven or so matches at BG East.  Not enough for my taste, of course, but enough to create a body of work that we can appreciate.  Here is Vinny in a match against Brandon Aldrich called Clobber the Jobber.  Whenever there is a jobber, there also has to be a heel, and Vinny shines in this match as the heel.  Like I said not long ago about Iván Guerrero, I like my heels to be good looking, hunky wrestlers.  And that's what we get in Vinny Trevino.  But there's also another ingredient for a great heel, and that's a cocky attitude.  Vinny exudes cockiness in this match, and he does so by showing absolutely no respect for Brandon.  At the start, our jobber boy shows a little attitude himself, but after losing a test of strength to Vinny in the first minute, Brandon is reduced to a sniveling, whining bitch, which is the role Vinny forces him to play for the rest of the match.  No respect!  Early in the match, Vinny lays his muscular body across Brandon's pale, lumpy torso and begins to count off the pin.  But after two, Vinny grabs Brandon by the hair and pulls his shoulders off the mat.  The heel says not yet!  He's got to earn his pay and make the match entertaining.  No respect!  Vinny scoops Brandon up high with a crotchlift, getting a big handful of the jobber's shorts, baring his ass, before delivering a massive bodyslam.  No respect!  Vinny humiliates Brandon by parading him around the ring with the groaning jobber in a sick torture rack.  No respect!  Vinny constantly stands over the blubbering Brandon, flexing his muscles, showing off his physique, barking orders at him.  No respect!  Vinny forces Brandon to participate in a boxing match with real gloves, only so Vinny can pound his abs into oblivion.  No respect!  Vinny pours ice water down Brandon's trunks.  No respect!  Vinny manhandles Brandon with repeated gutbusters while the jobber cries for mercy.  No respect!

And the final indignity comes with Vinny sitting on Brandon's chest, holding him down in a schoolboy pin and flexing his big biceps like the muscleboy he is.  The defeated jobber boy is forced to look on in admiration.  No fucking respect!!!  Boys, if you want a lesson in how to be a heel, then watch this match.

Vinny clobbers the jobber with a big bodyslam!

Flashback: Mr Destiny

During this time of corona virus, most wrestling sites have stopped producing videos, including No Rules Wrestling.  But instead of just shutting down, NRW has been making its matches available at deep discounts, releasing a new batch each day for just four dollars.  It's not a bad way to beef up your wrestling collection.  One batch features a collection of older matches starring Mr. Destiny, the man we know and love as the Z-Man.  Of course, I had to check them out.

Z-Man has been providing us with quality wrestling entertainment for almost fifteen years now.  I have mentioned before how he just keeps on going while still maintaining that killer physique of his.  Watching these older matches of his (probably from a decade ago), I was taken by how stunning his physique was back when he was younger.  The reason why Z-Man's body scores a ten out of ten today is because back then he was a twenty-five!  No wonder he was an accomplished underwear model in those days.  But the Z-Man is more than a beautiful body.  He also possesses some pretty good athletic skills, which he displays at times during his matches.  My favorite example is how he mandhandles fratboy opponent Joe Wegner:

 Z-Man emasculates the blond hunk with a fallaway slam . . . Holy fuck!

Iván the Wrestling Hunk

Hey guys!  I know it's been a while since I last posted, but for some reason it's been hard lately to find the inspiration.  And because of this, I've wanted to check out other wrestlers and productions to get new ideas.  As luck would have it, Hunks Wrestling (a production out of Spain) recently provided me with a preview of a new match of theirs featuring Steve Mason against newcomer Iván Guerrero.  This is my first post about Hunks Wrestling, so with a fresh set of wrestlers, let's get to it!

At the outset, I'll say this match is not the type I normally blog about because it's not one that features a whole lot of pro-style action like lift and carry moves (like bodyslams).  But I'll explain below why I really like this one.  The set up for this match is Steve Mason finding Iván Guerrero working out at the beach.  Steve is an experienced wrestler, mostly submission style, and he's appeared in a lot of videos.  Perhaps taken in by Iván's hunky physique (and who wouldn't be), Steve offers to teach Iván some of his wrestling skills.  Steve probably thinks he'll be able to play around with his younger boytoy, but he's in for a surprise.  Iván is cocky and confident from the start and never shows much respect for his teacher.  Steve gets Ivan into several submission holds, but Iván proves to be strong as fuck, and Steve frequently finds himself on his back with Iván in control.  As the match description on the website says, both wrestlers want to humiliate and subdue each other, so what starts out as a class for Steve to teach young Iván a few things becomes a wrestling match with ever increasing intensity.

So, why do I like this match so much?  The answer pretty much begins and ends with Iván Guerrero.  A wrestler with a physique like his is a wrestler I'm going to like no matter what.  I also love his name Guerrero, which means "warrior" in Spanish . . . a fucking awesome name for a wrestler.  But I like this match mostly because it's different.  It features a young, good looking, hunky wrestler in Iván facing an older, experienced submission wrestler in Steve.  In most of the videos I check out these days, this usually means the good looking hunk gets squashed by the older heel.  And in this match, everytime Steve gets Iván into a painful submission hold, I expect this to be the start of the beat down, but then Iván muscles his way out and turns tables on Steve.  There are times when I begin to wonder whether this is a heel/jobber match with Iván as the heel.  And that's totally ok with me.  I love my heels to be the young, good looking, hunky wrestler.  I want my heel to be Iván Guerrero.

To be fair, this is Iván's first wrestling match, and a lot of his talent and skills on the mat look raw.  But that doesn't mean he's not fun to watch (as you can see in the gifs above).  Much of the wrestling action comes from Steve Mason, but Iván fights back with punches, elbows, powerful kicks, even a few well-timed cheap shots.  That's what we want to see in our heels, right?

The folks at Hunks Wrestling tell me that they began as a submission wrestling company but are introducting more styles, such as pro wrestling and heel/jobber matches.  They also say Iván is a quick learner, can be good at lift and carry (as he shows in his first match), and that he has a lot of potential, especially if they can get him in a ring match.  I'm glad to hear this, and I hope we get to see more of Iván.  In case Hunks Wrestling is curious, my ideal match for him is a heel/jobber scenario with Ivan delivering several bodyslams, backbreakers, and torture racks.  Of course, for those who follow my blog, that should come as no surprise!

Iván the Warrior keeps working out those muscles.

Will he be slamming bodies and breaking backs soon?