Strength vs. Speed

It took me less than three seconds to start downloading the latest Tag Team match posted by the Rock Hard Wrestling website.  Their tag matches are always a pleasure to watch (and listen to, thanks to all the sexy, arrogant trash talk.)

The fact that veteran bad boys Austin Cooper and Zack Johnathan have formed a Heel tag team only added to my anticipation.  To emphasize their “Team Speed” gimmick, they entered the ring in matching red t-shirts with The Flash logo, which they peeled off to reveal matching trunks.

Due to their swole physiques, their opponents refer to themselves as “Team Strength.”  They strip off their matching Superman shirts and flex those impressive muscles.

Oh you poor, dumb brutes — don’t you know you’re just enticing the vicious opponents to punish you even worse??  Dash Decker is the larger stud in red bulge-trunks — holy fuck, he’s the most impressive specimen in the ring.  As the smaller member of Team Strength, Bruce Ballard in the black with blue stripes is doomed to serve as Face in Peril.

Soon after the match begins, Team Speed entices young Brucie into their corner like a lamb being led to slaughter and the two-on-one chicanery begins.  Zack holds the poor sucker around the throat while Austin drives solid black boots into his stomach, which just increases my powerful addiction to Tag Team corner torture.  Then they trade places and punish Bruce some more.

Cute Bruce twists up his face like he’s getting ready to cry, and grunts and groans and whimpers, and generally sells his helpless agony at the hands of the cheating bullies.  “Team Strength” indeed.

Actually the control shifted back and forth between the two enemy teams.  As often seen in Rock Hard matches, each of the four men took his turn as the Helpless Isolated Victim in Trouble.  All four men ate some two-on-one abuse.  But Bruce seemed to suffer the most (and the most beautifully), so his turn at Face-in-Peril is my focus in this gallery.

Wow, Dash Decker.  Those shoulders and abs.  Those trademark red bulge-trunks they convinced him to wear that just scream: Look at my manhood!

Decker was a great find by Rock Hard (and he definitely lives up to the name of their company.)  He always gets a big smile of pleasure on his face every time he gets in the ring, like he can hardly believe he is lucky enough to get to wrestle around shirtless with other dudes.  I get the same smile on my face whenever he gets in the ring.

One of the most visually stunning moments of the match occurs when Zack applies a Cobra Clutch style sleeperhold down on the mat to weaken big Dash.  The muscleman’s hard body is stretched out as Zack hooks the heels of his boots inside the big man’s crotch.

Desperate for a tag, Dash reaches woefully toward his partner in the near corner, which offers us a nice view of his lats and pecs and tris.  This scene has me eager to go back to the Rock Hard website and find some more Dash Decker matches to download, especially those matches where he plays the hurting jobber!

Eventually Dash tags pretty-boy Bruce back into the ring.  The heroic rookie is soon restrained in the corner for more two-on-one abuse by the bad boys.  Austin employs a sexy technique for restraining Bruce’s arms, sitting on the top turnbuckle with his legs wrapping up the helpless kid’s arms.  Hot!

I wish they’d do shit like that more often in mainstream wrestling — sitting casually up on the victim’s arms and gripping his chin, as if to say: “I’m comfortable sitting up here and can restrain this chump all night long.”  The cheaters also use those Grab-My-Arms moves where the outside partner pulls his partner’s wrists to increase the pressure on their holds.

It’s a visually stunning showdown.  All four men have ridiculous physiques, and all are well versed in pro wrestling moves and suffering techniques. I won’t spoil the ending.

Although I focused on Bruce’s suffering in this article (and he perhaps does it the best), don’t worry if you favor one of the other three competitors — you will get to see him suffer for you at some point in this video.  Oh, and one final suggestion for the Rock Hard wardrobe department: feel free to get Bruce a pair of those red bulge-trunks to match his partner Dash.  I dig it when they dress identically.