Review: Masked Mayhem (Wrestler4Hire)

What good is a ring or mat if you don't have anyone to wrestle with? I often wonder this when I see a match start with the "this is my ring/mat, get lost" premise. It's a common trope in gay wrestling videos, but you'd think these selfish fellows should be happy to have someone come along who's looking to roll around with them. Fortunately, no one ever says, "Oh, sorry, I'll come back later."

In this match from Wrestler4Hire, the ring owner should be very happy. Two classic looking masked jobbers show up and he gets to play with both of them. Why so angry, Teal Justice? Enjoy it!

I don't get why Teal Justice doesn't want to share his
ring, especially with smooth young masked jobbers.

Only Nick Justice is identified and it's fairly obviously that he's the selfish heel in this one. Since he's masked in teal trunks, I'm calling him Teal Justice. He's the owner of the ring. He's pumping up his muscular body, looking great in his pro trunks, pads, boots and mask. This is one of Cameron's original pre-W4H videos brought back for streaming customers, so TJ is younger and less beefy than we know him to be today.

The two unidentified intruders are masked, but it feels fairly certain to me that they're younger. Both have nice pro wrestling jobber bodies: smooth, solid and sturdy, but soft and not ripped. Since they're not named, I'm going to call them Slick Silver (silver gear) and Trick Treater (orange + black gear with a beautiful belly and sweet butt that have seen some candy in their time).

If the description didn't tell me who this is,
I wouldn't have guessed.

Trick Treater was born to suffer in trunks.

Slick Silver, barefoot boytoy.

The description for this match calls it "lucha libre-style masked wrestling mayhem", but other than "masked wrestling", I don't think that's very accurate. I don't think any of the guys are lucha libre wrestlers. They all seem new to masks and the ones they're wearing don't fit great. Beyond that, the masks are irrelevant to the story, so I think that it was just a case of guys wanting anonymity. Maybe they didn't know where this CameronWrestler thing was going and wanted some distance.

To me, lucha libre means high-energy and chaotic with a lot of flying around. This is mostly mat-based. Teal Justice climbs the turnbuckle for a cross body, but for the most part, the wrestling feels very American-style pro wrestling. And there's not a lot of "mayhem". 95% of it is one-on-one squash action with Teal Justice demolishing the jobbers one at a time.

Oh cool, the jobbers own the muscleman heel.

Or maybe not.

Teal takes it to the intruders.

Action-wise, this is more like two one-on-one matches. Leading into each match, there is a little double-teaming, but Teal Justice quickly eliminates one of the studs then focuses entirely on the other. Slick Silver is the warm-up act and sexy soft-bellied Trick Treater is finale. Some of the holds/moves repeat as it's mostly a beatdown with hard-hitting abuse, piledrivers and some submission holds.

I did get a laugh out of the middle part where the jobbers regroup after Slick has been demolished. Trick declares he abandoned Slick to work out a master plan to turn the tide. Here's a tip. Never believe a jobber who says he has a master plan to win. If he was that clever, he wouldn't be a jobber. That exchange makes Trick's destruction even more entertaining. Master plan? What a rube.

Nice master plan, Trick.

Jobbers don't have plans.

Sadly, this is G-rated stuff, because
I feel like this could lead somewhere.

In the end, this was an enjoyable pro match. Very traditional pro-style, with familiar holds and moves. Teal Justice is a convincing heel who enjoys beating on the boys. Trick Treater is my preferred jobber, but both guys make sexy wrestling dummies in that 80's wrestling way. There's no unmasking and the masks play no role other than as a distraction.

So that's my take. What's yours?

Alex