Hail to the Muscle Gods!

Who's ready for another post dedicated to the over-the-knee backbreaker?  I could probably do about fifty posts on this wrestling move, but I'll just stop at two for now.  I drew upon the image of a "muscle god" in my last post to refer to a wrestler who likes to sacrifice his opponent over the knee.  As I look over these two posts, I realize there are so many muscle gods in wrestling.  It's such a popular move that you see it in all the underground wrestling companies I like to follow.  On this page alone we got Rock Hard Wrestling, Muscleboy Wrestling, Wrestler4Hire, 88 Wrestling, Thunders Arena, and NRW Wrestling.  The new Weekend Wrestling absolutely loves the OTK backbreaker, and at Untamed Creations (which I just started following recently), those boys are breaking backs all over the place!

And looking at these photos I see so many of my favorite wrestlers doing the move.  I have to say that Scrappy is one of the best at breaking backs, but guys like Tanner Hill (aka Cena), Dante, and Cody Nelson always impress when they do it, too.  And I love the first pic in this post where Jake Jenkins plays muscle god by breaking Austin Cooper's back.  Cooper is no slouch himself in the world of wrestling, but it just goes to show that even muscleboys can find themselves sacrificed to muscle gods.

 

Sacrificing muscleboys to muscle gods!

Monday Madness

I've blogged before about Cody Nelson being one of my favorite wrestlers, and here are some more pictures from his match against Bam Bam at Thunders Arena.  The action comes from the Bodybuilder Battle series.  Now, while these two dudes are pretty muscular, they aren't as built as the bodybuilders TA likes to feature these days.  Actually, watching the match you see that Cody and Bam Bam are more athletes than bodybuilders, and that's why I like this one so much.  There's nice back and forth action, and both wrestlers exhibit good skills.  And of course, there's an awesome lift and carry scene where Cody scoops Bam Bam up, parades him around the room, and then delivers a nice over the knee back breaker.  That's why this match has a five star rating in my own personal wrestling library.

Although I am showing Cody off in the photos above, let's not forget that Bam Bam is no pushover.  He gets in some pretty good moves on Cody, too:

There's a lot to like about this match, so I recommend you check it out.  Now's a good time to do so because TA is doing a storewide sale today.  The price of all matches are reduced, so don't forget about all the other great matches TA has been producing for the past ten years.   

Where's Cody?

I came across these pictures recently.  They come from a match at Thunders Arena between Cody Nelson and Bam Bam that's probably a couple years old at least.  Cody was an early favorite wrestler in this blog.  He's even the dude in my profile picture setting up a nice looking bodyslam on his brother.  Cody appeared in several wrestling matches at Rock Hard Wrestling where he established himself as an alpha dog while helping the new RHW make a name for itself.  You can also find Cody in a few more matches at TA.  But it's been a few years since I've seen him in any new wrestling action, so I guess he has moved on to other things.  I know he's been a featured male model at All American Guys, which you can see below, and I hear he's now getting into acting.  If we're lucky, maybe Cody will return to the wrestling ring again sometime soon just to give his fans one more show.  If you're out there somewhere reading this, Cody, how about it?

By the way, Cody isn't the only wrestler featured in this blog who has appeared on sites like All American Guys.  Can you find some of the others?

Thunders Arena

Some of my recent posts have highlighted wrestlers from Rock Hard Wrestling and No Rules Wrestling. The wrestlers for these Internet companies are mostly college jock type. Thunders Arena is another Internet wrestling site, and while they have some college jocks, too, a lot of their talent tend to be bodybuilders, like the wrestler Sledge. He's only 5'8", but he comes in at a whopping 210 pounds. There's a lot of muscle on that bad boy. Here Sledge easily crotchlifts another muscle bound wrestler and parades him around before the inevitable bodyslam.