Here is a tag team version of the Big One-Sided Squash (BOSS) that caught my eye as the Best In Show of the Double-BOSS match, the epitome of the genre. The Henchmen are the two big bullies in white t-shirts and over-stuffed singlets. Their victim is the kid in black briefs — Tyler Bate.
Holy hell, they totally roughneck the poor little guy, just about knocking him out of his short little ankle boots. What sadistic individual even signed this match, allowing the soft-bellied jobber to get in the ring with these massive fucks like a lamb being led to the slaugher?! Tyler has a partner named Chris Brookes somewhere outside the ring waiting his turn, but the Henchmen are focused (as I am focused) on Tyler alone.
Not only do the Henchmen have an obvious and very pronounced size advantage, but they also dominate in the Experience factor. They have been partners for a long time, even sporting matching t-shirts and very similar singlets (albeit in different colors).
Tyler and Chris however are paired up for the first time ever. Their gear doesn’t even match, and their team name is “Slap Dash Tag Team.” When something is described as “Slapdash,” that means it is clumsy, last-minute, thrown-together, ill prepared.
So the pretty-boys lack the effective homo-social bond that the Henchmen have developed, and the evidence of this is the loneliness of Tyler Bate — outnumbered and getting no help from his “partner.”
By the way, this match is available on YouTube if you prefer to see it in live motion. The entire match can is available for viewing, but the camera is set far away from the ring.
It does strike me from watching this video how confident, patient, and matter-of-fact the fat Heels are about their divine right to control and own their victim. They also use some dirty language to emphasis their nasty Bad-Boy vibe — they’re British so they say “Fowkeen” and “Sheet.”
There is also another video, a very short clip of some of stand-out moves from this match, and the camera is much closer to the action!
They are SO rough on poor Tyler in this short video, just splashing all their weight down on him! And at the very start of the clip, you can see Benton Destruction toss Blinding Powder into Chris’s eyes. Gotta love cheating Heels, especially when they don’t even need to cheat but do it anyway.
The Bad Guys use plenty of Fat Man’s Offense, smothering, crushing, and trampling the little guy. And in case I forget to mention it, Tyler Bate is a pleasure to watch as a suffering ragdoll — like a puppy who hasn’t grown into his feet yet so he keeps tripping and falling but forever getting up to play some more.
On their Facebook page, the Henchmen describe themselves as “The Saviours of the manly wrestler.” This manliness, this unapologetic display of size and strength, is at the heart of why these big brutes are so loved by many wrestling fans — why some wrestling fans absolutely swoon when a big heavy Alpha Male enters the arena and proceeds to dominate.
The fact that they call themselves “Saviours” implies that manliness is becoming extinct, that it needs to be saved — and they’re the Big Swinging Dicks confident enough to save it. Another implication of this phrase is that the other wrestlers are NOT manly — present company included. So it’s up to the Henchmen to bring Macho back — to represent the ideal in masculinity among all the other fairies and bitches in the ring.
Tyler Bate’s skimpy black trunks offer his flesh little protection from the assault of the Henchmen. The kid doesn’t wear knee-pads either, which makes his legs appear even more naked and vulnerable.
You get the impression that this massive beast of a man could snap Tyler’s whole body in two pieces if he wishes to, and don’t ask me why, but this is the stuff boners are made of.
The British wrestling fans really get off on scenes like this — a young lad, maybe a little pale and soft, forced to wrestle a monster. They’ve been enjoying the “Kid” or “Boy” gimmick (e.g., “Kid” McCoy, Davey “Boy” Smith, Dynamite “Kid”) for decades. Tyler Bate may not have “Boy” in his name, but that’s the role he’s playing against the “Saviours of the manly wrestler.” The Saviours of Masculinity reaffirm the dominant position of the Alpha Male in our society with an easy victory over the softer, weaker representative of manhood.
Awesome post. You couldn’t cast it much better for this type of squash – two huge monsters and one young soft-bellied jobber. Very classic and very hot!