Review: Jersey vs. Luke (Thunder's Arena)

It's Jersey vs. Luke

I haven't watched a Thunder's Arena ring match,  yet. I have bought three Dirty Daddy ring matches (vs. Tak, Brian Cage and Marco), but I just haven't gotten around to watching them. I feel like I should be excited to see them, but I kind of not. I'm sure they're mostly good, but they don't feel special at all.

I get the feeling that Thunder's Arena aspires to be the new king of gay-oriented wrestling video companies (whether they want to call themselves that or not), what with the move into ring matches, the ambitious release schedule and the aggressive aquiring of talent. And of course, there's nothing wrong with it.

It's just that lots of people have ring matches. Part of Thunder's unique offering is the house atmosphere. They are the only company that has this buddies-hanging-out-and-roughhousing thing. It's tough to pull off, but it creates a special feeling of camaraderie between the guys when the chemistry is right.

Why am I bringing ring matches up when I'm supposed to be reviewing Jersey vs. Luke?



Well, because for me, Jersey vs. Luke is a quintessential Thunder's Arena match. Not that they shouldn't try to expand, but I think this is the territory that they own and do better than anyone else.

Boys just wanna have fun

The chemistry is perfect between Jersey and Luke. I don't know their relationship, if they know each other or what, but they come across like friends. Jersey is usually all about the fun, but here it's even smoother and more casual than normal. There's not really a sense of rivalry, even as the action gets intense. They don't hate each other, even as they go low again and again.

Well, that's one way to lift Luke onto your shoulders

Um, Jersey? That's not a handle.

I contemplated doing an entire post of the low blows, grabs and general attacks on their 'bean bags', as they call them. There are certainly enough of them. Jersey starts it, but Luke gets payback. Even when they say 'no more', you know neither of them are going to honor that. It reminds me so much of me and my friends when we were growing up that I was totally engrossed.

Fortunately, there's wrestling, too. The guys do apply some nice holds with a lot of back-and-forth amongst the playing around. I'm never a fan of all fun and no wrestling, but no worries there.

Interestingly, the guys compete by copying each other in several moves. Instead of feeling repetitive, I thought this played very well, given their dynamic.

Jersey's choke

Luke's choke

Jersey's pin

Luke's pin

Jersey loving his head scissors

Luke loves his, too

The gear is great, with both guys in posers - silver for Jersey and bright green for Luke. Their bodies are similar, with Luke just being a larger, tanned version of Jersey. A commenter on a previous review called Jersey doughy. I guess you could say that about both these guys, but I think they're sexy as hell.

See, these should be standard issue in TA

Perfect for rolling around

Luke is a lot taller. It might be the angle or Jersey hunched over, but Luke feels like a giant. Now, he claims to be 6'2" and there's no reason to think he's lying to be shorter. I mean, what guy does that? It makes me doubt that Jersey is his officially listed 5'11". Not that it affects anything, I just found their size difference noteworthy.

Luke looks huge (or does Jersey looks small?)

All-in-all, this is a classic Thunder's Arena buddy match, with great chemistry, fun action and two hot studs in skimpy gear.

So what do you think? Please let me know in the comments! It takes mere seconds and all the cool kids are doing it.

Or, if you're one of those people who rejects what's popular just to be different, the vast majority of the hundreds of daily visitors to this blog don't comment, so give a big middle finger to societal norms and write me a comment!

Alex

PS. I will say I don't understand the whole 'No-Name' deal for Luke. They made a big deal about it then finally name him something as ordinary as Luke? Seems like a big build-up for nothing.