Scrappy the Heel

A few weeks ago Muscleboy Wrestling released a new slate of matches, and I was glad to see Scrappy make another appearance.  These days, Scrappy is a hot commodity in the world of underground wrestling, and this really gives the blond muscleboy the opportunity to show off  his versitility as a wrestler.  For instance, at Thunders Arena, despite his powerful build Scrappy often finds himself in the jobber role against much bigger dudes.  But MBW gives Scrappy the opportunity to be a heel.  We saw that before in his awesome match against Dante, who has got some good size himself.  In the new release of matches, it gets even better for Scrappy because he gets to impose the full force of his 175 pound physique against Joey McCoy, who weighs in at a mere 135 pounds.  I'll give McCoy some credit for not being a total pushover in this match.  But to be honest, those extra forty pounds of muscle makes all the difference for Scrappy.  I love power moves by muscle boys, and Scrappy does not disappoint.  At times he revels in his superiority.  When you're full of muscles and have a forty pound advantage, there's no question that you got to gorilla press the other dude.  So Scrappy presses McCoy overhead.  Repeatedly.  Wow.  This is what I want to see out of a guy like Scrappy.

But as much as I love watching a dude press a scrawny loser overhead, I like the over-the-knee backbreaker even more.  And we get to enjoy watching Scrappy break McCoy's back over his knee.  Over and over.  And this really is an opportunity for an alpha stud like Scrappy show off his body.  You can't help but notice Scrappy's big traps, bulging biceps and triceps, his powerful pecs, and all the while McCoy is sprawled across his master's knee, his broken body offered up like a human sacrifice to the muscle god that is Scrappy.  No wonder Scrappy looks so happy in this match.

Scrappy is the Happy Heel.

Kasee Likes It

I'm still trying to figure out Kasee of Thunders Arena.  To borrow a phrase from my grandfather, Kasee is a real piece of work.  He was all kinds of goofy and playfulness in his matches against Scrappy.  I thought maybe it was just a thing Kasee had for Scrappy, but here we see him at it again in his Vegas Battles 59 match against Jake.  The blond bodybuilder Jake has got a good twenty pounds of extra muscle to lord over Kasee, and Kasee doesn't seem to mind letting Jake do so.  As the match begins, muscleboy Jake already has Kasee ready for an overhead press.  We're not sure how we got to this point, but Jake seems to be punishing Kasee for something he's already done.  Kasee keeps saying he's sorry for whatever it was, but Jake is not moved by the apologies.  He just wants to dish out punish and make Kasee pay for whatever it was he did.  And for most of the match, Kasee really doesn't seem to mind being Jake's whipping boy.  At one point, Jake taunts Kasee and says, "I think you like it."  That's when it hit me.  Kasee likes it.  When Jake holds him over his heaad, Kasee likes it.  When Jake gets him in a fireman's carry, Kasee likes it.  When Jake crushes his head between his massive thighs, Kasee likes it.  So, that's really all we need to know about Kasee when he's being punished on the wrestling mat.  He just likes it.

You know, I think Jake likes it, too.

No Mercy

There's a match at Thunders Arena from earlier this year featuring Scrappy and Kasee.  I've been sitting on it for a while trying to figure out just what to say about it.  It's Kasee, really, that I'm struggling with.  I mean, what's up with Kasee?  I can't quite figure him out.  This isn't the first match from TA between these two wrestlers.  I blogged about the other one, talking mostly about how Kasee treated the match as just fun and games.  In that first match, it looked like Scrappy really didn't know how to react to Kasee.  The touching, the flirting, the goofy grins . . . Scrappy seemed to be caught off guard by it, and in the end he paid for it.  Here in their second match up, it looks like Kasee wants to pick up where he left off, but this time Scrappy is prepared.  Kasee maybe wants to play mind games and put Scrappy on his heels by wearing the skimpiest of wrestling gear, but our little blond muscleboy won't fall victim to Kasee's shenanigans in this match.  He shows no mercy.  Kasee never stands a chance against Scrappy who is in total beast mode.  The repeated over-the-knee backbreakers is enough to sell me on this match, but there's so much more to love about it, especially if you enjoy a wrestling match where one young jacked muscle dude totally squashes another.  Scrappy usually doesn't get to be the heel at Thunders Arena, but he gets to showcase his heel persona in this match.  I like it.

This may be Thunders Arena, but Scrappy is all Muscleboy.

For more photos and commentary about this match, check out Joe at Ringside.

Wrestling Is Taxing Business

I've been trying to work on my taxes but am having a hard time keeping focused.  My most recent distraction is a new wrestling match from Wrestler4Hire that features Christian Thorn against Rolf Fulton and Trenton Ducati.  This is one of those two-on-one matches that I have talked about in other posts.  Christian has got a great physique with impressive muscles, but with his small stature there's no doubt this is going to be a two-on-one beat down by the much larger Rolf and Trenton.  The dictionary defines "taxing" to mean "physically or mentally demanding."  And that's exactly what wrestling is in this match, especially for Christian.  If you enjoy watching a small muscleboy get beaten by two bigger guys, then this match is for you.

Christian gets audited for using Form 2106 to claim his trunks as a business expense.

Carnival to the Mexx

I like to think of my blog as being both entertaining and educational, so here's a little cultural lesson for everyone.  Many of us in the U.S. know today as Mardi Gras and think it's something unique to Louisiana.  But in truth, much of the world celebrates Tuesday as the end of the Carnival season.  Austria is no different, and today is the popular celebration known as Fasching.  Unlike in New Orleans, which honors Fat Tuesday with bared tits and urine-soaked streets flowing with vomit, the Austrian tradition at the conclusion of Carnival is for big muscle guys to gorilla press other dudes.  And who is our favorite Austian muscle guy?  It's Mexxberg, of course, and today is his favorite day of the year!  It's hard to believe that my first post featuring Mexxberg was eight years ago.  There have been a lot of slams, a lot of blood, and a lot of bruises, but Mexxberg is still going strong.

Happy Fasching my friend!

The "Three Way"

Rex Bedford looks at his two shirtless buddies and says with a smirk, "I've always kinda wanted to be in a three-way."  Now, before you let your imaginations get the better of you, remember that I run a family-friendly blog here, not a porn site.  That's not the kind of "three-way" we're talking about.  Rather, 88Wrestling brings us a three-way wrestling match featuring Rex Bedford, Chase Lundquist, and Ethan Andrews (which is much, much better than porn in my book).

The three-man match has been a standard feature in pro-style wrestling for a long time.  It can take different forms.  In one scenario, you get two guys who team up together and dish out punishment on the third (like we saw before with Brad Barnes and Austin Cooper beating up on Ethan).  Another scenario has the single guy (usually a big dude) instead beating up on the other two wrestlers who try to gang up on him (a la Braden Charron against Cameron Matthews and Chris Richards).  And then you get the three-way match in its purest form where all three dudes are figthing against each other.

This match from 88Wrestling falls into the last category with Rex, Chase, and Ethan battling it out to prove who the top dawg is.  But you still get a taste of the other scenarios, too.  As the match progresses, we eventually see Rex and Chase form an alliance to take Ethan out.  What then follows is a temporary two on one battle.  Two of my favorite wrestlers beating up on Ethan?  I can watch that all day.  Then, with punk Ethan thoroughly defeated and out of the way, the combat turns to a contest between Rex and Chase.  Two of my favorite wrestlers battling it out in the ring?  I can watch that all day, too.  This is one of several matches that 88Wrestling filmed where the conditions obviously are hot in the ring.  I don't know if that's intentional, or maybe the air contitioning was broken.  As a consequence, you get a lot of sweat from the wrestlers, which adds to the appeal of their combat.  But you also get a slippery ring, which probably makes the wrestlers hold back a little bit on the action.  I really like to see power wrestling moves, with lifts and carries and slams, yet we don't get as much of that in this match as I would like because the mat surface quickly turns into a slip-and-slide with all the sweat.  But that's my only critique, because overall it's another fun and entertaining production by 88Wrestling.  As the fight continues, the contest transitions into a boxing match.  Eventually this leads to the conclusion where one stud flexes his sweat covered body in triumph over the knocked-out cold body of his opponent, leaving no dispute in the end who the top dawg is in this three man fight.

It's a "Three-Way" . . .  88Wrestling-style.

For more photos and commentary about this match, check out Joe's Ringside blog.

Trent Novak Immortalized

A big reason why I like Rock Hard Wrestling (and its current reincarnation as 88Wrestling) is the quality of the talent on the roster.  There's no doubt most of the wrestlers are fitness models or budding bodybuilders, but clearly they are also athletes.  They are more than just pretty boys because most of them actually put on a good pro-style wrestling show in the ring.  I'm sure they receive training before filming their matches, but it takes athletic skill not only to execute the moves but to also sell the action.  I'm not saying it's WWE quality (and I don't expect that), but it's still a commendable performance by good looking jocks in a wrestling ring.  When it comes to these online wrestling productions, that's really what sells me on these matches.

One wrestler I really liked from the RHW days is Trent Novak.  I wish I knew the details of how he hooked up with RHW.  Around the time he was a wrestler there, he also appeared at All American Guys as a young model from Georgia named "Jason V".  It seems like All American Guys is a good source of wrestling talent for companies like RHW, 88Wrestling, Thunders Arena, and probably others.  Besides Trent, other wrestlers I've seen at AAG include Rex Bedford (Talon), Cody Nelson (Ray Santiesteban), Eagle (Quinn B.), and Jake Jenkins (Clayton), just to name a few.  I guess fitness models like these guys like to make the rounds with AAG and the wrestling companies, and for that, we can be thankful.

So, back to Trent Novak, a strapping young guy (21 years old according to AAG), standing in at 6 feet tall and 175 pounds.  Unfortunately, he appeared in only four matches at RHW, and this was back in 2012 or so.  Who knows what happened to "Jason V" or where he is today.  He'll be in his late twenties now, maybe back in Georgia.  Life moves on, and so did he.  But because of RHW, he'll live on forever as Trent Novak.

You're probably wondering why I'm suddenly so sentimental about Trent.  The two beers I drank tonight probably have something to do with it.  But I also have to give thanks to a recent blog post by W.R. Screencaps which tipped me off to a sale on Trent's matches at RHW, and I had to check out Trent's match against Cliff Johnson.  I think this was Trent's fourth and final match at RHW, and after losing his first three, he goes into this one determined to prove that he's no mere jobber.  Cliff Johnson apparently is in the same boat, and the two guys are wrestling for pride if nothing else.  It goes three rounds with back and forth action before one stud finally prevails, but my highlights here focus on Trent being the heel.  When you watch this and his other matches, you notice Trent can be a noisy little bastard in the ring.  He's verbal and expressive both when he's dishing out punishment and when he receives it.  But Trent does so in a way that exudes feistiness and cockiness on his part, a high level of energy that makes him fun and entertaining.  Trent comes across as all jock.  He's out there to compete and to win because he's an athlete, and that's what athletes do.  But I also get the impression that when Trent is done beating up on a guy like Cliff, he's ready to go to a bar to hang out and get drunk with him.  Trent is your competition, but if you're also a jock, he's your buddy when the competition is over.  This describes a lot of guys I knew in high school and college.  I'd like to think that Trent and I would have been friends, too.

You know I like to include a GIF in my post when I can, although I can't decide which GIF I like best for this one.  But it's my blog, so why do I have to decide?  Why not show all three of Trent Novak proving to Cliff Johnson who the real alpha wrestler is?

Thanks to RHW, Trent Novak lives on forever!