When I wrote about the new “He Is Out!” blog (which I check out every day now), my article included this image of a long-haired wrestler made from screen caps I had found on Tetsuya’s blog.
As soon as I saw this wrestler on “He Is Out!”, I was thinking: Wow, who is THAT?! What gorgeous long hair! Where can I see more of him?? Fortunately, Tetsuya had identified this stud as “Vicente Viloni”, and a simple Google search filled in all the details.
Vicente Viloni was the heroic Baby-Face on a wrestling show called “100% Lucha” which aired in Argentina in 2006. A bunch of the 100% Lucha episodes were recently uploaded to YouTube, including Programa #182 which featured Viloni in the main event @ 38:40 in.
The producers of 100% Lucha really knew how to deliver sexy, provocative pro wrestling. Even the ring announcer is fucken gorgeous, check him out!
The wrestlers are so campy and sexy. The villain “Mugre” (which means “Filth”) enters the ring first, his thick black hair spilling down to his hairy chest. He is one of those wild-eyed Heels who acts blood-thirsty like he wants to bite someone’s throat.
Muscular Vicente on the other hand is pure male beauty, riding into the arena on a cycle like James Dean and then flexing his biceps.
That long beautiful hair on these males is what drew me to this match. It’s just gorgeous and effeminate, making them seem vain and arrogant and sexually ambiguous.
Check out pretty-boy Viloni applying a Headlock early in the match. His long hair pours down and caresses the other man’s face, entangling with Mugre’s black hair. Just as their bodies are entangled, so is their sexy long hair.
Mugre inevitably gains the upper hand and begins to torture long-haired Viloni as happens on every episode of 100% Lucha. Here the Baddie-in-black whips Viloni into the stretchy ropes, and when his body rebounds helplessly toward the center of the ring, Mugre is waiting with a cruel boot to the face. Check out how Viloni whips his hair around as he runs the ropes.
Here is another example of those waves of blond hair flopping around everywhere. Mugre again kicks our hero in the head, sending him sprawling out to the floor. Viloni’s hair tells the tale of his woe, exploding on impact and then pooling protectively around his head after his collapse. That floppy blond mane is symbolic of the vulnerable, weakened status of Viloni’s body.
After discovering this Vicente Viloni, I watched several (dozen) episodes of 100% Lucha on YouTube. I may feature more of these episodes in future articles — I am kind of obsessed. In every episode, Viloni gets in the ring with some brute and SUFFERS. Sometimes he is in the Main Event, sometimes earlier, but in every case, he sells. They should’ve called the show “100% Viloni Gets His Ass Kicked” (whatever that would be in Spanish.)
The wrestling quality itself is not superb. These guys are good, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not their mad wrestling skills that will draw you in and keep you interested. It is the sincerity of the suffering, the epic, pathetic agony. I can’t understand the announcer, but the excitement and outrage in his voice as he observes Viloni in pain is enough to put me over the edge.
After crashing through a table at ringside, Viloni rolls around in the rubble, broken and hurting for our viewing pleasure. A piece of the table covers his face, so he moves it away to ensure we can get some good close-ups. THIS is why 100% Lucha is entertaining and why Viloni is fun to watch, because frailty and vulnerability are embraced 100%.
But they can’t allow Viloni to be defeated — the Bambinos will cry. So he eventually fights back, using his flashy high-flying moves like a dangerous dive off the top rope to both entertain us and destroy Mugre.
Thanks to Tetsuya for introducing us to this long-haired, long-suffering Baby-Face on the He is Out! blog. What a cool world where a blogger in Japan can inform a fan in America about a studly wrestler in Argentina!