Fat > Muscle

One gimmick match we often see in pro wrestling is the muscular (and nearly naked) stud fighting against the obese, fully clothed Fat Guy.

For example, here is a recent match featuring the incredibly buff Jessie Godderz (Mr. Pectacular) facing an overweight attorney named “Joseph Park”.  You can check out this match on YouTube.  The contrast between their physiques emphasizes the amazing body on Godderz.

Obviously part of the appeal of the Fat > Muscle match is the exposure of the body-builder’s skin, the bare flesh he exhibits while his fat opponent covers his grotesque physique in dark clothing.  (Fat > Muscle is a variation on the old Clothed Wrestler vs. Naked Wrestler gimmick.)   The buff dude’s relative nudity draws our eyes to his hard body and establishes his superiority — his dominance over the chubby clown — just by virtue of his privilege to go around shirtless turning everybody on.

But the Fat > Muscle gimmick is actually a story about a reversal of their power positions.  We soon learn that having layers of blubber imbues the fattie with super-human power and strength that exceeds that of the body-builder (thus the “Greater Than” symbol in the “Fat > Muscle” name).  We see the obese wrestler cannot be knocked off his feet, and then he tosses his ripped opponent across the ring like a rhino goring a leopard, and the muscle-man appears shocked to discover the big lard-ass is actually more powerful than him.

The muscular wrestler represents the ideal male — the masculine physique perfected through discipline and perseverance.  The obese wrestler, meanwhile, is a grotesque perversion of the male body — his potential for power, fitness and sexual potency ruined by laziness and gluttony.  Just like having an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other, we’re presented with two opposite moralities — the ambitious hard worker and the lazy blob.  We each must ask ourselves where we fall on this continuum and, therefore, which wrestler we’re actually hoping will dominate.

As you know, in the pecking order among males, the athletic Alpha Male with the masculine features and hard body is at the top of the pyramid.  The flabby, over-weight doughboys are lower in status, maybe not as far down as sissies and fairies, but near the bottom.

So the Fat > Muscle match shocks us by upsetting the power structure.  Seeing the fattie take control over the stud is like seeing Superman injected with liquid Kryptonite and raped by Lex Luthor — it’s just wrong!

In straight pornography, it’s common to cast unattractive males in a film so the man watching the videos can picture himself in the orgy — can fantasize that he has a shot with the gorgeous actresses because he is at least as attractive as the fugly schmuck who is driving her home in the video.

This is also part of the appeal of the Fat > Muscle match.  We can rationalize that we are at least as fit as the porkchop in the track suit, so we fantasize that we too could someday wrestle a muscle man and over-power and dominate him.

In most Fat > Muscle matches,  the fattie appears eager to get his hands on the hard body of his victim, hungrily touching and groping his flesh, e.g. Kamala used to really enjoy clawing Kerry Von Eric’s muscular pecs, Big Boss Man enjoyed bearhugging Rick Rude, etc.

The implication is that the flabby out-of-shape guy desires what he doesn’t have — the perfect masculine physique  He wants to possess and devour that hard body, so he gropes and squeezes and crushes it against his fat body.

Although the Fat > Muscle scenario is presented frequently in pro wrestling rings, it is almost never seen in adult underground wrestling films from Thunder’s Arena, Rock Hard Wrestling, No Rules Wrestling, etc.  These companies strive to find two buff hottie opponents rather than presenting the sexy contrast of one obese beast crushing a handsome hard-body.

These underground companies (who strive to be responsive to the desires, kinks, and fetishes of their niche market) may be missing an opportunity to cash in, assuming there is a large demand out there for the Fat > Muscle gimmick.

So if you enjoy Fat > Muscle scenes, be sure to let these underground producers know this is your turn-on.  If enough people clamor for this scenario in their wrestle-porn, maybe we will see more crushing boulder type wrestlers on the underground rosters, laying waste to all those hard little perfect gym bodies.

Here is a Choke Slam image from a different Park > Godderz encounter.  The fat man exposes his muscular Boy Toy even more than he’s already exposed.

Meanwhile, Godderz is pretty much fucked when the crushing boulder secures a Boston Crab, sitting his huge ass right down on the body-builder’s lower back.  Our Superhero flexes his muscles and struggles to reach the ropes, but the smothering weight of Joseph Park is too much and he is forced to tap out — the ultimate humiliation for a muscular Alpha Male.

You can watch this helpless muscle-man tap out like a little bitch to his fat overlord on YouTube.