Beautiful Doomed Muscleboy

Muscleboy Wrestling is sexy.  Granted, I think most wrestling is sexy.  But this isn't just straight-up wrestling that I find sexy.  These guys add heat to their matches.  Kissing.  Groping.  In fact, this ties in with today's featured star, Alex Costa, and his Achilles heel.  The video: Alex Costa vs. Nick Flex.

Alex Costa

Alex Costa is handsome, ripped and lightly hairy.  In a word, beautiful.  And he seems like a nice guy, so in another word, doomed.  Because his opponent definitely has a mean streak: Nick Flex.

Nick Flex

Sure, he looks nice enough in the above image, but that's BEFORE the beatdown begins.  Remember: mean streak.

Alex fights back.  But he is just...OVERWHELMED.  Whether Nick is actually more skilled than Alex, or whether Nick's viciousness gives him an edge that Alex just can't match, it's hard to say.  All I know is that Nick could totally win this without resorting to any tricks--but that doesn't stop him.

Remember when I mentioned Alex Costa's Achilles heel?  That would be, basically, anything sensual.  Alex will be fighting back, his jobber's never-say-die attitude in full effect, when Nick switches tactics, with a kiss, or a gentle hand on the back of the neck, or a hand sliding south of the equator.  And Alex Costa is weak to these distractions.  They stop his struggling dead, he gives in to passion, his pained grunts take on a sexier tone...And then Nick Flex strikes, with twice the intensity he had used before.

During the match, Nick strips Alex down to his ass-revealing thong.  When Alex gets his jobber flurry (that flurry of attack a jobber gets about two-thirds through a match, when you start to think he can turn things around, but in actuality all he does is piss off the heel and make the rest of the match that much worse for himself), he strips Nick's trunks off in turn.  (From a film making point of view, one sees this reversal as the needed reason to get Nick Flex in his ass-revealing thong, too.)  Now both these guys have wonderful asses.  As someone whose ass is pretty much just the back of my legs, I can definitely appreciate a really good one when I see one.  And while they're BOTH impressive, this match is definitely Alex Costa's show.  Nick Flex realizes this, and quite unselfishly shows off Costa's ass very skillfully for our benefit.

Their voices are great too.  Nick Flex's deep guttural threats, Alex Costa's whimpers, rising in pitch with elevating pain or panic.  A perfect jobber-heel team.

Now, there's another Alex Costa match out there: Alex Costa vs. Jesse Zane.  With this second match, Alex Costa is much more the aggressor, proving he's not a pure jobber.  But I stand by my assessment of him as "Beautiful Doomed Muscleboy."  Even in a match where Alex Costa has the clear size advantage, and his opponent, Jesse Zane, is so beautifully jobbery that I thought of him as Muscleboy Wrestling's equivalent of Rio Garza, even THEN, Jesse Zane is able to turn things around on his would-be tormentor to such an extent that you can't even really call it Jesse's jobber flurry.  Yes, Alex Costa is aggressive in his determination to make someone ELSE the jobber, but Jesse Zane is aggressively romantic in his matches.  Which means, when he feels himself threatened, it's no trouble for Jesse Zane to turn Alex Costa into a quivering mass of lust.

Even when Alex Costa gets a jobber of his own, he ends up jobbing.  God I fucking LOVE this man.

Ravaging Savages

The Zach Altovito obsession continues with Wrestler4Hire's Ravaging Savages: Zach Altovito vs. Zach Reno & Matt Blakewood.

After seeing some dominant Zach Altovito, here we have him more on the receiving end of some pain.  But it's not his fault!  His opponents here are smaller than him, true, but there's TWO of them, and they're determined and vicious.  You ever watch little ants fighting a big ant on the sidewalk when you were a kid?  

Plus, from the moment Reno and Blakewood come flipping into the ring, you can tell they're pretty experienced.  So our poor big ol' Zach Altovito is outnumbered AND outclassed.  

AND!  The feral twins are relentless.  Once they get control of Zach, they keep it going, trying not to give him a CHANCE to rally.  And he's a game fighter.  There are moments when he attempts to turn the tide.  But every time he tries to take his chance, focusing on one barefoot brawler, the other comes in and tries to shut him down.

The double-teaming, if I haven't made it clear, is pretty great in this match.  There's a series of low blows that'll particularly leave you feeling for the big man.  Or alternating low blows and chest-scratching that leaves big Zach confounded, and unable to protect himself.  In fact, the heels often resort to raking their claws across Zach, imprinting his skin.

The double-hold submissions are nice.  

And it's pretty neat when both vicious little guys try, but are unable to apply a full nelson, due to Altovito's size.

So even if, unlike me, you're a stickler for a squash match "making sense," you should be able to accept an outclassed, outnumbered wrestler like Zach, who plays fair and just lacks the vicious streak of his opponents to keep up.