The Empire Wrestling Federation (EWF) is an Indy fed located in California. Here are images featuring one of their most popular Tag Teams, team “Footloose.” Todd Chandler is the smaller, cuter guy in the trunks, and big, buff Daniel Joseph — the enforcer of the team — is sporting the long tights.
Everything about these two lookers just screams Adorable, Honest, Innocent, Fun-Loving, Fan-Friendly Fucking Baby Faces. They proudly wear bright red, white, and blue gear, shake their dicks for the fans on the way to the ring, and look as pretty as a man can look without being suspect. I didn’t even realize there still are wrestlers this Baby-Facey left in pro wrestling!
The dirty Heels who will have the pleasure of torturing Team Footloose are known as the “Fallen Empire” — Mondo Vega and Ryan Taylor.
I must say Taylor is looking buff these days, and that fuzzy, manly beard makes him look plausible as a sadistic Bad-Ass.
Taylor takes control even before the bell rings (and establishes himself as the cheating sumbitch) by smothering poor Chandler with his scarf. Then it seems Taylor isolates Chandler and proceeds to rough-neck the hell out of him. That’s what I would’ve done too if I were in Taylor’s wrestling trunks — keep the smaller dude in the ring and just bully him down.
This is the oldest formula in wrestling — I’m sure I’ve seen this scenario play out a thousand times. Hell, it feels like I’ve discussed this exact sort of Tag Team torture myself a few hundred times on this Blog at least. But I can’t seem to get enough of it — I watch and enjoy this same Cut the Ring in Half dirty bullshit shenanigans time and time again, and still love it.
Once Joseph gets in the ring — looking like a Superhero in his flashy blue tights with red and white chevrons — we quickly see that he is the confident, dominant member of his team. Check out that pretty Headscissor, his calf-high boots inter-twined at the ankles. He apparently can beat up anybody.
As soon as Chandler is the legal man for Team Footloose again, the men in black strike back, taking ownership of him. They drag him over to enemy territory, and cruel Ryan Taylor, standing on the ring apron, punts the poor kid’s skull like it’s a soccer ball. Nice!
This is Chandler’s cue to become the Face-in-Peril, to act utterly defenseless against the relentless assault. Here is something to watch for if you’re someone who hasn’t viewed much Tag Team wrestling: when a team consists of one guy in long tights, and his partner wears speedo style trunks, it’s usually Mr. Speedo who will bear the brunt of the Heel’s assault. This is just a fact of pro wrestling life.
This Ryan Taylor is a pleasure to watch as the sadistic hard-bodied Heel. Check him out biting his trapped opponent’s arm like some kind of beast!
It’s fun little flourishes like this that can make a wrestling Heel entertaining and exciting. He makes a really good dickhead and I mean that as a compliment!
It appears the Heel Team prolonged the Baby-Face Beating section of the match for an extended length of time, which is how I prefer my Tag Team wrestling. They’re just torturing this poor kid, getting in every vicious Tw0-Against-One maneuver they can think of.
And as the match progressed and as Chandler grew floppier and weaker, the Heels became more bold and blatant with their Double-Teaming. YES! No mercy guys, GREAT job!
Ryan Taylor sort of a non-traditional bad ass, so excellent as a heel, nasty as all get out and that attitude, you just want to mount the ring and clock em’ that Taylor and Chandler heat is stellar.
Yum!
I’ve seen Taylor and Chandler for several years but not in this context… It really works and Chandler looks better than ever. Thanks for posting!
Where did you get these pictures from? I really wanna see Chandler suffering in video format, as great as these pictures are. He’s adorable!!!