Dante Is An Inferno

About a year ago a new internet wrestling company appeared on the scene called Muscleboy Wrestling.  More internet wrestling definitely is a good thing, but early on I shied away from Muscleboy.  They got some good looking wrestlers, and a lot of the match previews make it look like their wrestling is pretty entertaining.  But the action there often goes beyond just wrestling.  In many matches the activity progresses to, well . . .  let's just say to the kind of stuff that, when I was in high school, occurred more often outside behind the gym instead of inside on the wrestling mat.  Not that there's anything wrong with Muscleboy showing that kind of stuff.  Afterall, I heard someone once describe wrestling as gay porn with a little bit of clothing on.  But for my PG-13 oriented blog, it's just not the kind of stuff I usually feature.  Then recently I came across the promo for a match at Muscleboy featuring wrestlers Dante and Ethan Slade, making me re-think my considerations of Muscleboy.  While there's a lot that can be written about wrestler Slade, I want to focus on Dante here, who is bodyslamming Slade.  Dante sports an impressive 5' 10" and 180 pound body which is perfect for wrestling, so that catches the eye.  But mostly here I love this bodyslam.  I fucking love it.  I love how Dante grips Slade's body.  Check out the veins popping on his forearm!  It looks like Dante has such a tight, secure, nut crunching hold of Slade's body that Slade may need to see a fertility specialist if he experiences many more slams like this.  To belabor this fine point even further (and it's my blog, so I'm allowed to do so), I recall a couple of years ago in my judo class watching a black belt instruct some new guys on various judo pins.  When demonstrating the yoko-shiho-gatame hold (which for wrestlers is the same as the crotch half nelson pin combo), the black belt explained that you need to squeeze your opponent as tight as you can, as if he were an accordion.  Basically, he was telling the new guys you wanna crush the shit out of your opponent if you get him in this hold.  That's what Dante is doing here.  He's crushing the shit out of Ethan Slade.

For demonstrating such excellent technique for us, Dante is entitled to flex those double biceps over his emasculated opponent.  Afterall, this is Muscleboy Wrestling, and that's what muscleboys do.  Thanks for the demonstration Dante!

I'm Back!

Wow, has it really been almost 8 months since I last posted in my blog?  I remember a few years ago realizing that there's only so much to say about bodyslams, and I was running out of things to cover.  But every once in a while something comes up that catches my attention, like this clip here from UCW.  The muscleboy in orange gets a good grip between his opponent's legs, scoops up the yellow jobber, then bodyslams him like the bitch he is.  So simple, yet so beautiful. God, after all these years, I still love a fucking bodyslam!

I'm sure someone out there knows who these wrestlers are and which match video it comes from.  Please share.  And I'll try to start posting again more regularly this year.  And if you have suggestions about cool bodyslams, gorilla presses, or otk backbreakers I can post, please comment below or email me.  Thanks guys!

EDIT:  It's Jack Marino against Aron.  Check the match out at the link here.

Grapple Max

Summer is really heating up, but unfortunately my blog has been stone cold of late.  Sorry about that.  Maybe we can warm things up a bit by making a visit to tropical Singapore.  A group of fitness entrepreneurs have opened a gym down there called Grapple Max that (so they claim) makes pro wrestling available to new audiences.  They do this by turning pro wrestling training into a fitness class.  It sounds freaking awesome to me.  Let's hope their business model finds success and they open up a new gym near me.

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.

Vegas Baby!

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas . . . unless it's a wrestling match at Thunders Arena.  If that's the case, then everybody gets to see what happens.  For a year or so now TA has been producing a series of matches called Vegas Battles which take place in . . . you guessed it . . . Las Vegas.  It looks like the boss man Mike at TA secures a penthouse room on the Strip and then sends in his boys for some hand to hand combat.  A recent match features a "new" wrestler Karl, but if you've been following this blog for a while, Karl is not new to us.  I've featured this Romanian muscle stud before, and am totally excited to see this dude now wrestling at Thunders Arena.  Karl is looking awesome.  You ever wonder what it's like to wrestle a 5' 11" and 240 pound bodybuilder?  Just watch Scrappy wrestle Karl to find out.  It's not like Scrappy is a scrawny dude, but he does give up some serious poundage to the Romanian wrestler.  Karl has muscles, and he knows how to use them.

Is there any better way for a muscleboy to show off his power than with a series of over-the-knee backbreakers?  I don't think so.  Dude, that's got to hurt!

Squash Job

My last post talked about a match between a big, muscular wrestler (Marco) and a smaller, skinny dude (Flaco).  It's a squash job, which is a classic theme in the world of pro wrestling.  Who doesn't enjoy a good squash match?  Well, I guess I can't speak for everyone, but I for one enjoy watching a musclebound dude taking apart an overmatched smaller guy.  In previous posts I have mentioned my fictional wrestling league called Muscle Beach Wrestling.  It's like Rock Hard Wrestling or Thunders Arena and features wrestlers who are jocks, fitness athletes, and underwear models.  I put two dudes in the ring together and write up a scenario on how the match goes.  Some of the matches have good back and forth action, but others are total squash jobs.  Take this wrestling match between Tom Farago and Hui Liao.  Tom is 5' 10" and 160 pounds.  He's a 21 year old fitness model from Britain, so of course he doesn't know shit about wrestling.  Hui, his opponent from China, is 25 years old, 5' 9" and 170 pounds, and an Olympic gold medal weightlifter.  Sure, Hui isn't a wrestler either, but he's a world class Olympic athlete.  This match has "squash job" written all over it.  Hui can lift 400 pounds over his head, so it really requires little effort on his part to carry and toss Tom repeatedly all throughout the match.  

Hui's training comes in handy when he easily lifts Tom over his head during the match.  It's natural for an Olympic weightlifter to gorilla press his opponent in the ring.  The transition for Hui to go from weightlifter to pro-style wrestler is a natural one.  Both sports require strength and muscles.  Hui really enjoys being the alpha male in the ring during this match (and to be honest, Tom enjoys the jobber role a little more than he should, too).  But all wrestling matches must come to an end, and Hui achieves a complete and total victory when he piledrives Tom into oblivion.

So, there you have it.  It's a classic squash job match brought to you by Muscle Beach Wrestling.  And many thanks to 09tuf of Deviant Art for providing the artwork to make this match come to life.

Marco's Thunder

My last post about Marco featured an awesome match of his at Wrestler 4 Hire.  It's great that Marco gets to showcase his talent on different websites, and it all goes back to Marco getting his start at Thunders Arena, where he's still going strong (and even stronger).  Just this week he appeared in a new TA match against a little dude called Flaco (that's Spanish for skinny in case you don't speak the language).  The difference in muscle size between the two wrestlers is noticeable.  Early on Marco comments that this is a great set up for a lift and carry match, and he does not disappoint.  Here are just a few scenes where muscleman Marco has the little guy Flaco up in the air.  One thing I have noticed about Marco in watching his wrestling matches is that while he's confident and assertive, he's not overly cocky and arrogant.  He's pretty low key as he goes about dominating Flaco.  It's almost like you don't mind him beating you up.  Marco seems to take a liking to Flaco, calling the little guy adorable for challenging the much larger beast.  I have to agree with Marco on this.  Flaco does look pretty adorable as he's nothing more than a play thing in the hands of a muscleboy like Marco.