An attempt to explain why I love pro wrestling.

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AEW DYNAMITE • Aug. 12, 2026

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Today is Sunday -- time for church! What is with the cross above the ring? Ashton Day and John Bonhart are possibly wrestling in a church. Or former church?

Hey, if I'm going to worship before any altar, let it have three ropes surrounding it and shirtless gods grappling in the center of it.

In his essay about the symbols and imagery used to convey meaning in pro wrestling, French philosopher Roland Barthes noted that the suffering in the ring often evokes the Passion (at least for Christians), with the saintly hero enduring outrageous violence and suffering for our sins. The wrestlers are tugging at our religious heartstrings by martyring our saint in the ring and making us watch with guilty, sinful pleasure.

The passion play in the wrestling ring, if done well, can therefore be just as soul-stirring, awe-inspiring, and redemptive as any profound religious experience.

This particular match further emphasizes those religious connotations with a literal cross above the ring, and a Jesusy looking Babyface!

Back in 2008, I posted the full article by Roland Barthes (in English) on my original Wrestling Arsenal website (along with some really hot images too, now that I'm reviewing these):

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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AEW: COLLISION | 08.08.26

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Saturday Scissor Series

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Here are a few mouth-watering photos of Michael Hayes that appeared in some 1980s Wrestle-porn magazines. The sort of magazines I used to keep guiltily hidden under my mattress, because the sight of these shirtless men in hot wrestling action gave me otherworldly feelings of excitement -- the first real arousal in my life.

I always thought this dude was the bomb. It was partly because of his fur-covered torso (which -- as a boney, pre-teen twink -- I greatly longed to have or to hold.) But it was mostly because of his flashy, peacocking arrogance -- always strutting, smiling, ripping his garments open to be sure we noticed his body, and always telling us how sexy he is.

Honestly, Hayes was maybe a 7 out of 10 in looks, but his cocky, kinda gay antics made him easily a 9.5 in my excited eyes.

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I posted some galleries recently of Brendan Byers and Santiago Sandoval kicking Limey ass during their recent visit to England. I've been meaning to write about the beautiful wrestling gear they and their opponents are wearing for these matches: low-cut trunks in jewel tones with matching wrist-bands and bicep-bands.

The outfits are for sale from a new venture called "Suplex Society." I believe Santiago (and possibly Brendan) started this company, or at least they're generally promoting it.

For $49.00, you get one pair of trunks in your choice of color and size (Small, Medium, or Large) with matching wrist- and bicep-bands. Each color in the catalog represents a unique pro wrestling persona: Black = Heel (obviously), Pink = Jobber, White = Hero, Green = High-Flyer, etc.

So I decided to support my guys by purchasing a couple of their trunks myself. I think they look fantastic (at least on Santiago and Brendan!)

I ordered the white "Hero" trunks and the green "High-Flyer" trunks in size Large -- not that I'm much of a "high flyer" but the shiny emerald color caught my eye. And maybe, just maybe, these are the same exact pairs that Santiago wore when he modeled them for the promo pics!

I think the price is very reasonable for quality trunks, and the online shopping process was smooth as silk. I will have to let you know how I like these trunks after I receive them -- maybe after I try them out in some private bouts (is anybody near me free on Saturday? Or any day ending in "y"?) I can't promise I'll look as stunning as Santiago in them, but these trunks will surely be great additions to my gear collection.

Meanwhile, shop SuplexSocietyWear.com for all your wrestling trunk needs, and remember to support our wrestleporn producers.

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Here are more vintage black-and-white photos of strangulation during pro wrestling matches, as posted to my old Wrestling Arsenal website 20 years ago. In my "Choking on Your Words" gallery, I tried to spice up each photo with some speech balloons to capture what the wrestlers may be saying while they enact these cruel/sexy breath-control scenes.

These are a few of my favorites from that old gallery where you can find more in-ring choking along with my imagined conversations.

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Back in August 2006, my old Wrestling Arsenal website became fixated on Choke Holds. I began the series of Choke galleries on 8/13/2006 with these vintage black-and-white photos of wrestlers strangling their opponents.

Upon revisiting these old photos, I must say, they are pretty damn arousing! I grew up on the old wrestleporn magazines, so these photos are right up my alley. Here I will repost a few of my favorites, but you can see even more in my original gallery from 20 years ago.

The violent hair-pulling, the grip on his jugular -- it appears these dudes like it rough!

Choking as an attack carries plenty of erotic baggage, given that many people enjoy a bit of safe, consensual breath-control during sex. Then you have these photos of shirtless men in classic trunks and boots, like crime scene photos, their faces twisted in pain, the cruel moment frozen in time so the suffering endures, and the choker just throttling his opponent in crisp, stark black-and-white clarity. And you realize you're looking at a work of art. (Or at least, very good pornography.)

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Lucky fucker!

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Here is another look at Max Hunter in a Brendan Byers' sleeper hold as Santiago Sandoval reaches in to apply a Kiss of Death on the same victim. Moments later, Santiago and his partner will be locked in another sort of kiss.

This Kissing-Double-Sleeper scene is from a video available for streaming on the UK Wrestling Hub on WatchFighters: "(#207) 1 Jobber vs 2 Horny Heels Max Hunter vs Brendan Byers/ Santiago w/Bonus Interview."

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It seems that Brendan Byers brought a partner -- the incredible Santiago Sandoval -- with him to England, to help him defeat and dominate the lads at UK Wresting Hub. I recently blogged about Brendan utterly crushing T World who, it seems, was scheduled to team up with Max Hunter in today's tag team match. However, T-World apparently ran away in fear of Brendan (or is still in the hospital?) -- now leaving his partner Max to face the "Horny Heels" by himself. (And I'm feeling horny just writing about this! I love two-against-one brutality!)

Match #207 -- Max Hunter vs the Horny Heels -- is available from the UK Wrestling Hub on WatchFighters for like 20 Pounds, and it is one sexy, homoerotic, double-teaming masterpiece.

It appears that Brendan is teaching young Santiago how to be a cruel Dickhead Heel. So far, we've seen this bonny new-comer as a naive and rule-abiding Babyface (against the Z-Man, against Killer Kris, against Reid Hawthorne, and in his own double-team beating down in Mexico).

However, now that Santiago is booed up with Brutal Brendan, we see the rookie adopting some of his boyfriend's nasty tactics (hair-pulling, double-teaming, below-the-belt abuse, etc.) Our fair youngster is becoming a Man now -- a meaner, sexier Man!

Damn I love Double-Teaming! And Max Hunter is a ripped stud, I didn't know British guys could get that shredded! They wreck the stud with lots of Gut Punches, Cock Grabs, and Body Stretches galore.

Now you posh Brits can see how we do it on the mean streets of America! The comely lad has no chance against these two big powerful Heels from our side of the pond! I've always said that British wrestling fans seem to enjoy watching their attractive "Blue Eyes" take a whipping, especially from foreign scoundrels, and Max certainly fits the bill in this match!

The Horny Heels go on to finish Max off (and me too) with one of the hottest, most intimate 2-on-1 Sleeper Holds I've seen in years -- possibly ever in my life. This sweaty love scene is a Sure Thing for me!

Overcome with passion, their mouths just centimeters apart, the Horny Heels begin making out with each other, with Max crushed and subdued between their hard bodies! Max slowly passes out in the Horny Heels' combined entanglement as they continue to smooch over him, too distracted to notice his peril. Wowie, it is really an erotic moment!! (I decided not to make GIFs of the Horny Heels' kissing during their Double Sleeper to respect their privacy -- and so you'll have something to look forward to when you stream the full match on WatchFighters.)

I sure hope Brendan and Santiago stay together as partners. And they set up a bunch of old school two-vs-two Tag Team matches. With all the cheating in their corner and double-teaming bullshit behind the ref's back. Just pair up any two of the cute Babyface dudes in Underground wrestling as their victims: such as Scrappy + Jim Ratt, or Z-Man + Elite Eliot, or Rudd (or is his name Reed? or Kendall??) + Zach (Zack?) Reno. Any Babyface pairing will do -- then turn these Horny Heels loose.

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This week's free video on the BG East Arena portal is a classic that I've watched many times over the past 20+ years. It is from their 2001 video, Jobberpaloozer 2: Powergunz vs. Lionmane. We've got the stereotypical arrogant Heel in black leather vs. the stereotypical long-haired jobber in white trunks and boots.

I love that both wrestlers used a nickname ("Power Gunz" emphasizing his big biceps, and "Lion Mane" emphasizing his long hair) instead of a regular name, because I think of them as representatives of the Heel Persona and Jobber Persona rather than normal dudes next door. From their gear choices, to their banter, to their relative level of aggression in the ring, they perfectly portray the Dickhead Heel in black and the Submissive Ragdoll Jobber in white.

And you may be wondering if Powergunz weaponized his opponent's mane by dragging him around by that pretty long hair like a dog on a leash. (It's always a miss for me when the Heel fails to take advantage of a long-haired opponent's flowing locks.)

The answer is Hell Yes! Powergunz goes to town non-stop on Lionmane's hair and I loved it every time! Yank those luscious locks with aggression! Snap-Mare the bitch like a bullwhip! Drag him up with a tight fistful every time he falls!

Of course Powergunz is excellent in the Heel role beyond simply pulling hair. He attacks his jobber's leg, stomps and kicks him (even in the balls), boots him out of the ring, entangles him in the ropes, etc. The best for me was when he stood on the helpless wimp's chest and flexed over him in victory for a couple minutes (see final image below.)

Lionmane for his part mostly flops around like a deflated balloon, his out-of-control mane splashing around him on the mat. He slowly struggles to his feet after each knockdown. But he does it so well! He clearly has watched plenty of pro wrestling, with a focus on the jobbers' pathetic vulnerability.

For example, look how he performs this Leg Lock, reaching up to grab the dude's face -- but then flopping back down in helpless, impotent pain each time the pressure is increased:

This is next level jobbing!

So if you have a BG East Arena membership, be sure to check this one out before it goes away in a few days. Especially if you get off on hair-pulling! Also you can always order Jobberpaloozer 2 from the BG East website for a nominal fee. I promise at least one good rough Hair Pull per dollar spent on this match.

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Last week, I blogged about Kip Sorell's epic return to the ring against Manny Mendez in BG East's "The Comeback 5."

I was pleased to see my fellow blogger, WrestleBard, wrote up this same hot match on his Neverland blog -- and goldang can he write real good!

I believe he was even more excited than I was by this match, plus he writes way better than I, so you may want to go check out his post. The captions for today's images (also swiped from his blog) were written by the Bard himself.

I gotta share the following gem from the Neverland article:

"Manny snaps on a lock tight full nelson that shows off the star of the show, Kip’s phenomenal physique, beautifully. The muscle beast wrings Kip out like a rag doll, and fuck, I can feel Kip’s screams deep down in my testicles."

Yes! Me too! I think I'll go back and watch this match again with Bard's commentary in my head.

"Kip’s brand has been that of a devastatingly gorgeous muscle jobber ripped off of a stripper pole and put through the wringer again and again."

-- WrestleBard, Neverland blog, August 4, 2026.

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A few weeks ago, I tried to post images from this recent UK Wrestling Hub match available on WatchFighters: Brendan Byers vs. T-World. However, I never got a single Like or Reblog from you guys. I was wondering: Why don't they like it? It's a DAMN HOT MATCH!

After further research, I figured out that the Tumblr algorithm had flagged the original post for being too sexually explicit. Only I could see the forbidden images in my stream, but the post was not visible to my followers.

OK, I will admit, there was a sexy Headscissor scene where Brendan pulled T-World's face into his crotch, his big dong pressed right up against the other dude's face. I suspect that was the image that exceeded the limits of their "User Guidelines", so I won't bother appealing their AI's decision. You can stream the match on WatchFighters if you want to view that "sexually explicit" Face-to-Dick Headscissor scene.

Below I will re-post the other images I had created from this match, excluding the naughty Boner Headscissor GIF of course. Let's see if this still gets blocked by the Algorithm...

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Brendan Byers recently flew across the pond to figure out, once and for all, who produces the more powerful wrestlers: the United States or United Kingdom. His first challenge was to take on one of the top stars in Brit Pro wrestleporn (and a favorite of mine): the amazing T-World!

Brendan proceeds to utterly reign over the smaller lad. To be fair, he first gained control illegally with a surprise Low Blow, driving a European Upper-Cut directly into poor Tim's bollocks right at the beginning of the match. I believe this is illegal in all national and international wrestling rulebooks.

Poor T-World is later folded in half, with Brendan grinding his bent body to and fro like a rocking horse. Painful and humiliating, I'm sure!

In the end, it was USA 1 to UK 0. Can the Brits fight back and teach this cocky American invader some humility?

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Saturday Scissor Series

The great Kid Leopard performing a Figure Four Headscissor.

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Saturday Scissor Series

The great Kid Leopard performing a Straight-Legged Headscissor

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Hot camera work...

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Saturday Scissor Series

Yes, always spread your legs and try to bridge out of the Headscissor.

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Buddy Landel (or Landell?) looks gorgeous strutting to the ring in his emerald and golden robe. He goes on to utterly dominate muscle-jobber Paul Drake, whose shredded, tanned, and oiled physique would've had me scrambling to find the remote and hit "Record" if I saw this match on television when it first aired. Now we are fortunate to have the full match available on YouTube.

A Heel wrestler could gain a more powerful, dangerous reputation by defeating buff, muscular opponents. The viewers would think: if Landel can destroy this stud, imaging what he'll do if he gets his hands on Rick Martel, Tony Garea, Shawn Michaels, or any other beloved pretty-boy fan favorite. Plus I'm sure it helped the ratings to feature really fit, sexy Enhancement Talent instead of out-of-shape shmoes.

Normally we'd see Landel apply the Figure Four Leglock following the Big Elbow Drop, but here he demonstrates his power advantage by going to the cocky Pinfall immediately after the Elbow. Landel's cocky pinfall here is just delicious. I love this arrogant SOB!