This 1986 match that I saw on YouTube was typical of the televised NWA matches from that era — meaning it was a humiliating one-sided squash job.
The blond pretty-boy who will be used and abused is Rocky Kernodle. He begins the match with a bunch of Armlocks on Jimmy Garvin.
I love when the Scissorer gets all aggressive and rough.
The tide turns once Jimmy embraces the jobber’s head between his thick thighs and starts a-scisserin’.
Garvin seems to be in a Scissoring mood, which is fine with me, because can get into a nice long Leg Vise and this is just the first of several really gorgeous Scissors that he will treat us to.
I must admit, I dig Jimmy Garvin and I’m not going to apologize for that. He is so manly and gritty looking with that long hair and thick beard. He is powerful brick house yet also flirty and effeminate. Then his clean white gear resembles underwear when he peels off his pants before every match.
Then he’ll do something sexy like Headscissor his jobber for like two minutes, reclining on one elbow and refusing to let the wimp get free no matter how much he bucks and struggles. It’s as if he’s saying: I’m so dominant, I can just lay here crushing him in my legs as long as I want to. Yeah, you Scissor him all you want, Daddy Garvin!
Get your head back in my legs where it belongs!
The rookie in the tight burgundy trunks eventually breaks free, so Garvin just reaches up with those two big old legs and engulfs his head again! It’s like the jaws of an crocodile reaching up to bite some antelope’s head off.
This jobber is well trained, positioning those red ass trunks right in our faces.
How much would you pay this jobber to trade places with him?
Garvin really snaps on the pressure, and Kernodle uses his hands to sell his suffering, gripping those powerful legs and slapping the mat. “Ahh! NO! No...” Like I said, he is a really talented jobber — I need to find more Rocky Kernodle matches.
Meanwhile we get to stare at Garvin’s tall white boots grinding on the pressure.
One aspect of this match that I did not capture in the photos is the presence of Garvin’s female valet, Precious, at ringside. We see several glimpses of her, clapping for her man, watching intently as he owns another male before her eyes. I’ve written before about the presence of a watching female sexualizing a match, turning it into a three-way with a big dose of humiliation for the submissive male being emasculated before the judgemental female.
And Garvin revels in his.dominance, flexing to show her his leg strength, fluffing his hair and blowing her kisses while their sex toy is in agony down in Garvin’s crotch area. Clearly Garvin and Precious are using his relentless Headscissor on Kernodle as a form of foreplay which makes this scenario seem even more enticing and erotic.
Damn dude, are you hurt or having the best orgasm of your life??
Watch what Kernodle does here, TWISTING in agony, ARCHING his back off the mat. That’s niiiiiice.
Some purists may complain that he is over-selling the move, but my boner seems to find his display of pure back-bending agony to be just fine.
Then Garvin goes back to his trusty Scissor (this pervert is just obsessed) and Kernodle again waves his spandexed ass in front of the camera.
I guess if you have to be squashed on national television, you might as well have fun with it. Make a game of it — see how many times you can put yourself in a degrading position.
It’s all fun and games until a neck gets broke.
When Jimmy tires of playing Kiss My Hamstring with the jobber, he JUST DESTROYS the poor kid with this deadly Neck Buster move! He goes to Suplex the poor kid, then just drops him on his head!
Wow, this is just too mean and violent, who OK’ed this killer move?! Clearly this wimp never had a chance, so did Garvin really need to unleash this fucking nuclear weapon of wrestling moves?! I hope my poor Rocky is OK — I want to see more of his suffering in later matches…
Speaking of Fan Service…
Just because he twisted your arm a little earlier…
They provide us a slow motion replay of Garvin’s devastating Jobber Killer so we understand that this scary, hairy brute is into hurting other guys.
At least with a traditional Pile Driver, the dude applying the hold can absorb the impact with his knees, so the victim’s head often does not even touch the mat (spoiler alert.)
There is no protection in Garvin’s Skull Crushing Finale. Damn that is brutal! Rocky may need a hug from his biggest fan after that one…
Thanks for the Jimmy Garvin find! I’ve been on a Garvin binge the past few months so finding ones I hadn’t seen, awesome! He was another one of those heels I had an irrational fear of as a kid. Like a real fear, as if he’d show up at my school with Precious and slap me around on the playground in front of the girls and teachers. Tully Blanchard was another of those. Loved Garvin’s arrogance and loved that even as a heel he wore white trunks. Would have been emasculating being bitch-slapped by a dude in white. And having Precious there….with my obsession with women watching, I would have melted if I’d been a jobber in my trunks with her prowling the outside like the slut she was, spraying her ridiculous spray. And his finisher was one of the greats. How didn’t he break people’s necks? Always thought it was interesting that he scooped the trunks with his left hand on that move. Almost all wrestlers use their right on vertical suplexes when they grab the trunks. I assume they’re right-handed. He always did the left. Him and the Barbarian are two of the only ones I remember using their left. (yes, jobber tidbit for the day).
Great to have you back with another classic post on a classic jerk!