To continue yesterday’s focus on wayward and disobedient wrestling trunks, here are some images that one of my loyal readers sent me featuring Arn Anderson against jobber Tommy Angel. (Of course I couldn’t resist adding my usual captions describing the action.)
In the e-mail that contained these images, the sender refers to Arn Anderson as a “veteran trunk puller.” If you watch plenty of Arn Anderson matches (and who wouldn’t love that?), you will notice Arn focusing his assault not only on his victim’s arm, but also on his vulnerable trunks.
Back in the 1980s, the top wrestlers were allowed to do anything they wished to wimps like Tommy Angel, tossing them around by the seat of their pants, causing their trunks to pull up and totally ruin their private parts.
For fans of trunk pulling in pro wrestling, this match is an absolute classic. It’s the Deep Throat or Debbie Does Dallas of crack-wedging, spandex yanking ass exposure in the ring. You can check out Part 1 and Part 2 of this fabric abuser on YouTube.
Of course Tommy wore his trademark white trunks which reveal every nook and cranny for this match. It makes me wonder who chose those trunks for Tommy to wear. Did Arn or possibly one of the promoters confront him in the locker room and say: “Kid, you’d better wear those little white nut-huggers tonight or you’re fired!”
Here is how the reader who sent me these images described the action: “Anderson holds nothing back in this bout, dominating and humiliating his opponent with a series of hooks, wedgies and trunk pulls…..he almost snaps the trunks with his suplex. The poor guy had nothing underneath and came very close to baring all !”
Just yesterday, the Beefcakes of Wrestling blog featured an article called “The White Stuff” (which of course included a gallery of beefcakey wrestlers posing in their clean white trunks.) After seeing Tommy Angel getting molested in his whitey-tighties, I certainly agree with that blogger’s comments in praise of the white stuff:
“Of all the colors a wrestler could pick, I think white (actually, a non-color) is the hardest to wear in the ring. It looks like underwear, can be somewhat revealing, and stains easily. And yet, white looks so hot!”
The match commentators in those days stuck to the script, talking about the punishment Anderson is dishing out and his consistent focus on the opponent’s arm. By carefully avoiding any comments about the elephant in the room — Tommy Angel’s unfortunate and very obvious wedgie — they almost draw more attention to it.
The wrestling fan is sitting at home watching this humiliation unfold, the camera zooming in on those blatantly exposed cheeks, the white trunks shrinking away. The commentators meanwhile are describing a recent interview with Dusty Rhodes. What the hell? How can they not notice that ass and say something about it? How could anyone watch this match and not see how sexual it is getting, and not want to talk about that ass on display rather than the upcoming show at Charlotte Memorial Stadium??!?
Arn hoists Tommy Angel up for the dreaded Brain Buster. Rather than just resting a hand on his hip and allowing his body to flop to the mat, Anderson yanks Angel’s trunks downward for added momentum, stretching the spandex fabric to the limit and shattering the poor kid’s body on the mat! Arn then grabs an ass cheek and jerks the jobber’s trunks to roll him over for the cover. Why is this big bully being extra cruel to his helpless victim? Besides risking an injury on this poor jobber, he is also risking a possible wardrobe malfunction.
Thanks for the match photos, Mark. You have a good eye for great wrestling images.