I Wanna be a Cowboy, Baby!

These images are from a match for sale at a website called No Rules Wrestling.  In this video recently posted for sale on the NRW website, a shirtless cowboy — Handsome Jeff Clark — dominates the popular Baby-Face in the company, Matt Meadlock.

Apparently Meadlock had lied about some recent photo shoot, and Clark is angry about it and wants to rip off Meadlock’s tank top and harm him in the ring to teach him a lesson in respect.  Damn, I need a sexy, shirtless cowboy to teach me a lesson in respect!

The boots make it seem more punishing and sexy.

I have not often bought videos from No Rules Wrestling nor blogged about their matches because I wasn’t sure if it was pro-wrestley enough — if that’s a word.

Yes, they fight in a ring, but the videos usually feature lots of gut-punch fetish, and they usually wrestle barefoot which is not to my taste because it’s not pro-wrestley.

The cowboy drives his boots into Meadlock’s nuts.

But this video proves to be plenty pro-wrestley, I love it!  They fight shirtless in jeans (with Clark in those amazing boots), which is a common enough gimmick in pro wrestling.

And we get to enjoy pro-style moves by the cowboy, such as a Leg Drop, Headlocks, Boston Crab, and even a big size 10 cowboy boot stomp to Meadlock’s cajones.

Some of you may be thinking: these dudes should be wearing spandex trunks, not jeans, for this to really be a pro-wrestley match.

True, the speedo-style trunks are much more common in the pro wrestling ring, but we have seen plenty of wrestlers working the shirtless denim look, such as the Smoking Gunns who looked amazing in their matching blue jeans.  Plus i have a thing for cowboy boots.  So Cowboy Jeff Clark, looking butch and rowdy with his hairy chest exposed, is plenty pro-wrestley enough for me.

And most importantly, Meadlock understands the role of the Helpless Jobber, so he suffers, and he complains, and he lies limp and exhausted on the mat, but he does not fight back.

The proper role of a jobber is to suffer for us while looking gorgeous, and Meadlock fulfills his role with gusto.

Do they consider a wrestler’s footwear a Foreign Object?

The sexy cowboy boots are fetishized throughout the match as objects of power and effectiveness.  Clark talks about his boots (“How did that boot feel, Meadlock?“), shows us his boots, and even uses his boots as weapons.

Here Cowboy Clark removes a boot to strike Meadlock in the face, which seems to open a bloody cut on his forehead!

To verify how pro-wrestley this match really is, just compare it to yesterday’s classic pro gallery — Blunt Force Trauma.

We see a cute young Baby-Face suffering a shot to the balls which hobbles him. We see an article of clothing (boot today, helmet yesterday) used as a weapon to cause bleeding.  We see the young Hero limp on the mat, his body on helpless display.

“Let me keep that wound open for you, alright?”

And just like the classic rasslin’ Heels of yore, Clark focuses his assault on his opponent’s bloody face, repeatedly driving his fist into the man’s forehead to make him wear the Crimson Mask.

Is this fake blood?  Probably — but I enjoy it because the Crimson Mask scenario references the raunchy, brutal action seen in classic pro wrestling (see yesterday’s gallery) which always trips my trigger.   Soon both of their bodies are coated in blood as they smear it on their chests and faces like warpaint, proudly wallowing in it like hippos in mud.

So this No Rules Wrestling video was a winner for me.  Both wrestlers look great and display some skills, and the tone was sufficiently pro-wrestley.  If they stick with this style of story-telling and with gear that reminds me of the Old Timey federations, you may be seeing more No Rules Wrestling discussed on this blog.