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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Review: Cameron Matthews vs. Jonny Firestorm (BGEast)

It's usually a bad sign when a movie or comic book is endlessly delayed. Being put on the shelf is the worst sign because you just know it's a complete dud. At some point, it gets released for contractual reasons, not because anyone believes in it. BGEast consistently challenges this entire premise by filming great matches with all-star talent then putting them on the shelf for years and decades.

Maybe I need to view these matches differently. Think of them as fine wine, because Jonny Firestorm vs. Cameron Matthews has aged amazingly well. 

Jonny starts this classic fast -
attacking Cameron right away!

Thursday, January 21, 2021

2020 Cavey Awards: Matches

It's day two of the sixth annual Cavey Awards.


Wednesday, January 20, 2021

2020 Cavey Awards: Wrestlers

Welcome to the sixth annual Cavey Awards!


Monday, January 18, 2021

Mindsweeper Monday: TCCW 2

TCCW are wrestling stories from two different Yahoo! groups from the early 2000's. These entries were part of a much larger universe led by other writers. There are references to characters, events and matches that will not be posted here. Titles change hands, friendships and alliances form and dissolve, all without you ever seeing it. Imagine you are watching an Indy fed sporadically.

Note: You can find ALL (?) the stories by all authors in order in their original versions HERE - thanks for the link, Mangler!

Texas College Championship Wrestling 2

Scott (HW Champ) vs. Buzz (Challenger)




Thursday, January 14, 2021

Review: Cameron Matthews vs Mighty Vinny (W4H)

Cameron Matthews' persona has certainly evolved over time. From the freshest young babyface in wrestling and frequent victim, he is now all grown up as the boss of Wrestler4Hire. While that still involves jobbing, it also involves using his tight muscles and abusing his lofty position in classic pro wrestling fashion. In tight red trunks, Cameron is looking fit and fiery.

Welcome to W4H, Vinny.
Hope you survive the experience!

Sunday, January 10, 2021

Review: Brendan Byers vs. Ethan Axel Andrews (BGEast)

I will admit, I'm going to miss a lot of great rookies for the next little while. With my break from watching wrestling videos, I'm mainly focused on matches featuring my favorites. And there have been quite a few of those across the gay wrestling world. Brendan Byers and Ethan Axel Andrews definitely qualify as favorites. I've watched a lot from both and couldn't wait to see them hit the mats at BGEast.

We get the best from both these studs.

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Review: Bull Barrett vs. Nick Flex (MBW)

Full disclosure: This video was sent to me by MuscleboyWrestling.com.

During my blogging hiatus, I also took a hiatus from new wrestling videos and keeping up with blogs. There are a lot of matches that I missed. Great ones, I'm sure. Favorite wrestlers. New wrestlers. Old wrestlers at new places. I'll never be able to catch up but there are some matches that I really wanted to go back and watch. Bull Barrett vs. Nick Flex is definitely one of them. 

Two of MBW's biggest boys.

Monday, January 4, 2021

Mindsweeper Monday: TCCW 1

TCCW are wrestling stories from two different Yahoo! groups from the early 2000's. These entries were part of a much larger universe led by other writers. There are references to characters, events and matches that will not be posted here. Titles change hands, friendships and alliances form and dissolve, all without you ever seeing it. Imagine you are watching an Indy fed sporadically.

Texas College Championship Wrestling 1

Buzz (HW) versus Blake (MW)


Every year, Lambda Theta had a rushing war with Epsilon Xi. All fourteen on campus fraternities had developed their own unique personality over time, but that didn’t stop overlap in desiring recruits. The life blood of any fraternity is getting the best candidates. Often there were guys that fit well with more than one, but only with a few with the seriously intense competition between the houses occur.

Saturday, January 2, 2021

The Cave 2021: Look Forward

My theme right now is "look forward".

I am looking forward to a lot of things. It seemed like this nightmare might never end. While everything is pretty much the same, there is stuff I can look forward to and I hope that you can, as well. I won't go into my life, since we've all dealt with the same circumstances to different degrees, but it's been busy and stressful on the work and family side, same as most of you, I expect. 

I appreciate all the concern. I am surprised but appreciative. It is not something I anticipated, so it's not something I prepared for. I'll be honest, it didn't really occur to me that people would worry or even care. Writers and bloggers disappear all the time and I've never particularly fretted it. At least not to the point of worrying. Maybe that makes me a bad person. I have good friends that I only connect with once a year so it's not just y'all. I guess I'm just used to long stretches of silence.

Anyway, it makes me feel good that folks would care but a little guilty that I just cut myself off from this part of my life so completely. I have not looked at this blog, any other blog, any wrestling videos, or my gmail in months. Still haven't gone into gmail. I did find some spam comments here and deleted them this week when I knew I'd have a new story coming. Hopefully nobody was gullible enough to click on them.

Since some of you do care, let me confirm that I am healthy. Actually, healthier. I turned my commuting time into workout time and have lost weight, getting to a number I haven't seen since I put on the "Frosh 15" and never looked back. No COVID or anything like that. No major concerns. Some depression for the first time in my life but nothing I'd consider extreme. 

Looking forward to the blog ...

There are more unknowns than knowns. I did not post yesterday's story with some grand plan in mind. Compared to how planned I've been in the first five years, that's how unplanned I am right now. I have a couple more stories started. I'm thinking about posting on the first of each month, rather than the 1st and 15th. Unless I get more momentum. Reviews are up in the air as well. I've just watched my first video in months and have a small backlog to catch up on then actually grab images, GIFs and write my thoughts.

2020 Caveys

I don't know exactly how or exactly when these will return but I do plan on doing them. The Oscars are moving two months, so surely my little awards can, as well. They will happen but I need to catch up on the last three months of videos, maybe post a few reviews of candidates. I'm thinking late January.

Mindsweeper Mondays

I don't know exactly how much I will be posting but I will have two stories every month for the next two years at least. A couple of Mondays every month, I will post an older wrestling or superhero story from the old Mindsweeper site.

I've loaded 57 wrestling stories in about 50 posts through the end of 2022. These are all from an old Yahoo! Group that started as a multi-author teen wrestling story group then morphed into a series about college age men. There's no sex in any of them but I still think they're interesting. They're not meant to replace the content on the blog, just add to it. I'm looking at the superhero stories now to mix them in, too.

That's all I know.

Thanks again for sticking with me for the past few months of silence. Months? It feels like years.

Happy new year,

Alex


Friday, January 1, 2021

The Cave Undercard 31: Kraken vs. Young Love



The Cave Arena. Hallway.

“Well, I guess there’s no talking your friends out of this, Xaq.”

“I told you, Cody. They love taking on big muscle like me. It’s why we’re friends. And it’s why I recommended this match as soon as I saw Paul.”

“Uh huh. I just usually like to ease guys into The Cave. Kraken is a rookie but he’s definitely not the easy way in.”

Kraken (Paul)