Sacrificed to the Muscle God

Whenever I hear or read the words "over the knee", my pulse quickens.  The OTK backbreaker is one of the hottest wrestling moves of all times, especially when performed by a muscular heel.  He scoops you up high into the air and carries you around.  You prepare yourself for a bodyslam, thinking at least it will be over quickly.  But no!  The heel drops you down and cracks your back over his knee.  Fuck!  You cry out in pain from the impact, but it's not over.  The pain ratches up as the hardbody hunk bends your back over his knee, bending it in a way nature never intended.  Through gritted teeth, you moan loudly, but there's nothing you can do but endure the agony.  You're nothing but the muscleboy's bitch as long as he decides to hold you there.

The move is especially effective when the heel continues to hold the victim with his arm through the crotch, like Scrappy does above.  It's bad enough to have your body helplessly splayed out over the knee, but feeling the heel's arm between your legs and his hand grabbing your butt just increases the humiliation tenfold.  Plus, you're worried he's going to pick you up again, then drop you down over the knee for another backbreaker.  If he's a really bad-ass muscleboy, that's exactly what he does.

In the end, you are completely at the heel's mercy.  Your body is laid out as if across an altar, offered up as a human sacrifice to the muscle god who put you there.  You lose the will to fight, so you finally submit.  That's why the over the knee backbreaker is one of my favorite wrestling submission holds.

Sacrificing another jobber to the muscle god!

Lift and Carry

Enjoy these action shots from a match at Thunders Arena between Dozer and Frey (Austin Cooper).  It's a contest featuring muscles of epic proportion (but you can say that about any match where Dozer wrestles).  Among the many things I love about wrestling is lift and carry.  That should come as no surprise since my blog really is a celebration of the lift and carry in wrestling.  I love it when I lift and carry another dude, and I love it when another dude lifts and carries me.  I love seeing other wrestlers lift and carry each other.  You may wonder, what's the point, really?  Why train so hard to be a wrestler?  Why work out and lift weights?  Why build big mucles?  Well, you build big muscles not only because they make you look good, but because you want to put them to use.  You want to dominate another dude in a match.  You want to show off your strength and power by lifting him up and carrying him around before you slam him hard to the mat.  And when the match is over, you want to be the Alpha male who gets to do this:

So, to be honest, that's really the point of it all.  For a wrestler, everything else is secondary.

Ring Wrestling

New match from Thunders Arena!  Why is this one worth posting about?  Well, last year TA began producing some of their matches in a pro style wrestling ring.  Most TA matches are filmed on a small wrestling mat, and while the products TA has produced over the years are (in my opinion) top notch, there's something about wrestling in a ring that seems to open up so many more possibilities.  This is really true for someone like me who likes the lift and carry aspect of pro wrestling.  You get a lot more of that kind of action when you put two studs in a ring to battle it out.  So I'm glad TA has added ring wrestling to the kind of matches they produce.  And this new match in particular is worth a look at.  Brian Cage versus Dozer.  Holy fuck!  Talk about a celebration of male muscle.  All I know about the match is from what TA teases us with on its website, but Brian Cage's gorilla press is enough to show that this one is a masterpiece.  It would be nice to see Dozer return the favor, but even if he doesn't, this match is destined to become a TA classic.

PS - I'm not done with Tiki Pepper.  Stay tuned!

Bolt

I spent my last post gushing all over Dozer, but I failed to point out the little guy he's pressing overhead in the last picture.  If you've been to the Thunders Arena website lately, you will recognize him as Bolt, a new wrestler who's 5' 7" and 150 pounds.  I guess until he can make a name for himself, Bolt will have to be the chew toy for some of the more experienced wrestlers at TA.  It looks like Dozer, Archer, and Marco already are making the most out of their new found play thing.

Dozer

A large chunk of talent at Thunders Arena comes in the form of bodybuilders, and lately one in particular has made several appearances.  You probably know the dude I'm talking about.  It's Dozer, the 5'10" 230 pound muscle stud on display above.  Outside wrestling, he's an accomplished competitive bodybuilder (like I need to point that out).  But Dozer is one of those guys who likes to do more than just flex his big muscles.  He likes to show them off by dominating other dudes in wrestling.  Although he wrestled in a ring a while ago for No Rules Wrestling as The Ox (see third pic above), at TA Dozer's action mainly has been on the mats with just a few lift and carry type moves thrown in to show off his power.  But not long ago the Arena announced it had a wrestling ring, and I think Dozer can make himself a nice home in that type of setting.  Let's hope TA turns Dozer loose in the ring so he can wreak pro-style wrestling havoc on many hapless opponents.

Backbreaker Monday

It's Monday.  The first day of the work week. Seems like a good day to have a tribute to the backbreaker because a job can be backbreaking work, amiright fellas?  Too bad we all can't be pro wrestlers.  I know these dudes put in a lot of hard work, but in the ring they make it look like too much fun for it to be just a job.  Have a good week, guys, and keep up the good work!

Meet the Press

What better way to kick off summer than to pay tribute to wrestling's most awe inspiring move . . . the overhead press!  All for the glory of wrestling!

Dave Calbrese v. The Ox

No Rules Wrestling is one of those Internet wrestling productions featuring young guys fighting it out in a ring. Their matches seem to feature a lot of punching, fist fights, and even sleeper submissions. But there's not a lot of pro-style lifts, throws, and slams except for the pretty easy fireman's carry. Yet one wrestler who has caught my eye is Dave Calbrese (featured before in this blog) because he likes to bodyslam his opponents. I came across a match of his against The Ox, who is a 220 pound muscle dude, significantly bigger than Calbrese, and I figured Calbrese had met his match. But Calbrese surprised me by scooping up his huge opponent with a beautiful crotchlift and delivering a monster bodyslam. It's fun seeing a smaller wrestler dominate his larger opponent. I would love to wrestle Calbrese because we are about the same size. I'd probably get bodyslammed a few times, but that would still be fun.