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!

School Days

No Rules Wrestling is more than just an underground wrestling website.  It is also an educational institution.  It often features instruction videos, usually featuring Dave Calbrese and his School of Hard Knocks.  If you want to learn how to be a pro wrestler, I recommend that you check out these videos.  Of course, I like the one featured here where Calbrese teaches young rookie wrestlers Luca Rossi and "Showtime" Sammy Sabre the art of the bodyslam.  Calbrese truly is an accomplished expert in the field of pro wrestling, but what gets me about this video is the complete lack of interest that students Luca and Showtime have in their lesson.  Don't they realize they are in the presence of greatness here?  Showtime just stands in the corner looking bored, as if he's counting down the seconds until he can take his leave.  And Luca is even worse.  He looks like he's still recovering from an all night party at the frat house.

This must be frustrating for a professional like Calbrese.  He's a master of his art, and the younger wrestlers should be eagerly soaking up his knowledge.  But alas, like the lazy, self entitled millenials of today, they just stare back with vapid expressions of disinterest.  At least Calbrese knows how to get their attention back:

Ouch!  An over-the-knee backbreaker.  That'll wake you up, you dumb-ass punk!

Backbreaker Monday

It's (almost) Monday and time to prepare ourselves for the drudgery of the work week.  This Backbreaker Monday is brought to you by No Rules Wrestling, featuring Matt Meadlock breaking in new wrestler Luca Rossi.  Luca seems to be suffering through a day at the office about as well can be expected for any Monday.  But hey, we all got to make a living somehow.