Month: February 2024

WrestleFest – Historic

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There’s just so fucking much to reflect on when it comes to wrapping my head around my experiences at WrestleFest NYC 2024! As I mentioned last week, a major item on my schedule for WrestleFest was moderating a panel discussion and question & answer session centered on the History of Gay Wrestling. It started off as this cool idea that I’d fit in on top of wrestling and socializing at the fest. Then it grew and morphed into this spectacular and historic opportunity to gather together an unprecedented collection of wrestlers, in-front-of and behind the camera talent at BG East, and around 100 fans to reflect on how far we’ve come as a community. As it took shape, it had a special focus on the homoerotic wrestling video production industry as it relates to meet-up wrestling, wrestling clubs, BJJ training facilities, and other fascinating branches of the diversity of who we have been and who we are as the gay wrestling community today. In the weeks leading up to the event, I somehow went from being a talking head moderator for the event to chairing the planning committee. Lest “chairing” sound more self-important than it really was, let me clarify that it was largely devoted to trying to channel an ever growing number of creative, innovative, talented wrestling hunks into arriving at the same place, at the same time, in order to (roughly) accomplish the same task. No mean feat, trust me. By the time last weekend rolled around, I was showing up to WrestleFest to take care of panel business, and hopefully squeeze a little wrestling and socializing in on the side.

In the very early days of thinking the panel through, a few of us honestly didn’t know how this type of event might resonate with the rest of the WrestleFest vibe. We arranged to book a room at the community center that could seat 60 people, taking it on faith that we’d manage to raise the funds to pay the rental. By the time we showed up this past Sunday afternoon, we’d had to upgrade the room rental to accommodate the more than 100 people planning on showing up, and had secured pledges to cover the cost of the larger space and equipment. Watching people start to stream in when the doors opened was sort of surreal, to be honest. Guys looked curious and excited as they kept filing in, browsing the tables of memorabilia that panelists brought as well as silent auction items available. I was a bit of a nervous mess, frankly. The nerves were firing on several levels, including this being my first “public” appearance for me, after almost 15 years of relatively anonymously blogging here. I was also just nervous about speaking in front of 100 friends and strangers. And, sure, I was nervous about whether our planning was sufficient to wrangle the egos and anecdotes and honors necessary to pay proper respect to the shoulders on which an event like WrestleFest NYC 2024 rests. I had more than a few sleepless nights in the previous week imagining 1,001 things that could go catastrophically wrong. And, to my continued amazement, it went beautifully from start to finish!

The BG East crew video recorded the panels, and I don’t know what their plans may be for the recording. But the panel discussion in the first hour turned into a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of gay wrestling from the perspective of 6 wrestlers who haven’t just lived it, but have actively shaped it. No one had sufficient time for us to really get their full stories. We knew all along the time constraints were going to leave us all a little less than satisfied at any one step along the way. But the collegiality and camaraderie of all of the featured panelists wove its way into this fun, funny, inspiring narrative about guys just making it up and figuring it out along the way, and slowly and surely, what they were making up and figuring out became the geography of gay wrestling community we take for granted today. Like the evolution of finding wrestling opponents in personal ads in the Advocate, to regional wrestling club newsletters, to AOL chatrooms and Global Fight and MeetFighters. They talked about how wrestling with gay sensibilities have charted a path through freestyle wrestling clubs and jiu-jitsu training gyms still today. And there was this fascinating interplay between meet-up wrestling culture and the evolution of the homoerotic wrestling video production industry, with even pre-BGE roots in companies like AMG and Old Reliable, and then us largely focusing on the role of BG East, and the dozen or more other wrestling companies that have come and gone, modeled on BG East’s eye for the art, athleticism, and dramatic production behind their wrestling videos. Fuck. It was seriously deep and layered and flew by just way too fast! But it was exactly what it needed to be in that moment and for that occasion.

The panelists were the cream of the crop, starting with our featured speaker, Kid Leopard, himself. One of the early New York Wrestling Club contributors, Bill Erland talked about his journey from pro wrestling fan to wrestler. Shane McCall shared a glimpse of his transformation from a quiet, relatively nonathletic gay kid into the LEGEND Shane McCall, babyface battler and rookie of the year turned dangerously badass erotic warrior. Scott “the Man of my Dreams” Williams took the podium to talk about his journey from solidly accomplished submission wrestler in his BG East filming days to finding his way into a BJJ gym, where he’s been training and accepted as a gay man in the often hypermasculine world of MMA. Kid Leopard reflected on his storied career as a performer, a pro wrestler, an on-camera wrestler for BG, and then his entrepreneurial genius in building BG East into the pillar of the gay wrestling community it has been for the past 45 years. And Kid Vicious reflected on embodying both one of the most notorious sex fight characters in gay wrestling iconography, while also transitioning to behind the camera, directorial, and management responsibilities, helping to navigate BG East through the increasingly turbulent and uncertain waters of technological revolutions and the gig economy of self-produced wrestling fare. Fuck, how did we get through that much depth and breadth!!!?

Scott Williams and Shane McCall seemed to enjoy themselves

Despite how wound tight my nerves were to start with, the event turned quite emotional for me, as I’ve heard it did for several other folks who were present. I was already getting chills just listening to Shane talk about the liberation of letting his inner gay wrestling badass out. When Scott was bearing witness to just how accepting and affirming his jiu-jitsu training gym was, I was seriously torn between having my heart warmed and my cock hard, because… Scott. The heartstrings really took a tug, though, when Kid Leopard started his remarks off by awarding a trophy, in absentia, to Jonny Firestorm, who at the last minute wasn’t able to join us at WrestleFest. And then, Kid Leopard delivered another surprise award to my co-moderator and legendary ring announcer, Bob Wood (watch BGE’s Wrestlefest 1, Live at Metro, or Live at Campus for a taste of what Bob brings to hot gay pro wrestling drama).

Ricky Roma and Gabe Steel were in the house

Kid Vicious and I had a little surprise planned of our own, though. I think we genuinely caught Kid Leopard off guard by handing him an award in honor and gratitude for his lifetime contributions to promote and elevate gay wrestling. He got two spontaneous standing ovations from a room full of passionately grateful fans and colleagues. I think it may be the first time I’ve ever seen Kid Leopard at a loss for words, and it was sweet and powerful and brought a tear to my eye. Of course, Kid Leopard’s speechlessness only lasted about a minute, but, fuck, yeah. I think the weight of a ton of gratitude and respect landed just right.

Shane McCall and Scott Williams feeling the love from fan and friend Tarz Lando

We switched up the panel for the second half of the event, populating the front table with 8 or so BG East wrestlers, which honestly was a little random, because there were at least that many more of them still in the audience. Here’s where I got to ask questions I gathered from the live audience assembled that day for the event, as well as from blog readers and social media followers. So, for example, I did deliver the question that Alex posed in the comments here last week, asking Kid Vicious “who coached/trained him originally to be so amazing at erotic wrestling, and how did he get into it?” The answer can be boiled down to Kid Leopard, and he sought out Kid Leopard. But it was this spontaneous and funny answer where, I kid you not, Kid Vicious looked almost a little embarrassed by the praise! Again, I’m not going to do the answer justice, so I’m hoping folks may have an opportunity to watch the recording sometime soon. I was expecting the wrestler Q&A to be mostly fun and cheesy, maybe with a mix of kayfabe and BTS glimpses. And it was totally that, but holy hell, it was also astonishingly moving, too! One audience member anonymously wrote a question, asking for advice for an aspiring jobber looking to finally follow his gay wrestling dreams, now that he’s in recovery from addiction. Woah. WOAH. I got chills just reading the question, and I honestly had no idea who among the wrestlers might answer or how they’d respond. And they lined up to share their words of encouragement and concrete, serious as fuck gems of advice (e.g., make sure you negotiate ahead of time and trust who you’re wrestling so you stay injury-free, and sell your heels!!!). Another question from the audience asked about the desire to see more wrestlers of color and trans men in gay wrestling, and, again, I didn’t know where that was going to take us. And it took us into some real talk about the BG East audience, profits, and the marginal return on investment when the studio recruits and tapes wrestlers of color knowing that their existing customer base doesn’t respond the same way as to white wrestlers. It wasn’t the sad truth and the realities of racism and transphobia in the market that gave me chills, but the earnest opportunity this audience member was taking to talk to the powers that be and have that real conversation, and then the willingness of the wrestlers and the wrestler-producers on the panel to wade into those waters and respond with an authenticity that doesn’t solve the problem, but respected it and named it. Where in the FUCK else do we have those conversations so spontaneously and respectfully like that!?!?

Early BG East wrestling hunks back in the day

There was also this subtle moment in the Q&A that snuck up on me in terms of how powerful it turned out to be. I asked a question my buddy AR had suggested that I ask, inquiring of the BG East wrestlers who they wish they could have wrestled, but who had already left the scene before they arrived at BG East. The instant I asked the question, Mason Brooks’ hand shot up like Hermione Granger in charms class. With eager earnestness, Mason said, “Brad Rochelle!” That started this popcorn of earnest answers from the panelists, and then the BGE wrestlers in the audience, and then anyone and everyone else, naming their favorite BG East wrestlers who’ve starred in our personal fantasies. Alexi Adamov, Mike Columbo, Blaze, J-Rock, Aryx Quinn, Dark Rogers, Nick Archer, Justin Pierce … answers kept coming, and with each name, there were spontaneous corporate sighs and grunts of agreement rising up from the entire room. It felt like we were tapping into some collective unconscious, naming out loud our lustful objects of fantasy and discovering 100 others were right there with us. I honestly got chills as the names and sighs and collective moans kept coming, not only because it was just cool to witness BG East stars tapping into their own inner fanboys, but because it felt like this visceral manifestation of the way in which wrestling videos have helped to weave each of us, independently watching our own screens in privacy, into a community of shared passions and common experiences.

They’ve been cracking each other up for decades!

My head is still buzzing from just how incredible I felt the panel turned out. It was about history, and it was fucking historic. Things were said there that needed to said. Appreciation long overdue. Praise that’s never quite been articulated in that way before. I had this powerful impression that there was a lot less dividing the panelists up front from the 100 or so audience members watching than I’d imagined there to be before the event started. I’m left with this profound appreciation for the way that gay wrestling pioneers before us blazed a trail that was never a sure thing, but yet has led us to a place where we can celebrate homoerotic wrestling in more ways than ever before. And I’m left with this sense of awe at the way that homoerotic wrestling videos have shaped not just my tastes, but my sense of myself. And clearly I’m not alone in that. Seeing a diversity of wrestlers celebrating homoerotic wrestling, making themselves vulnerable on camera, and lending their voices and bodies and creativity to giving form to what we find most erotic leaves us feeling a little more seen and heard and respected. I may not be the LEGEND Shane McCall or Scott THUNDER Williams. I’m definitely not the legendary erotic warrior Kid Vicious, or the godfather of gorgeously sadistic heels Kid Leopard. But thanks to them, I feel more powerful and attractive and interesting and empowered. I feel like I’ve got a place in the world that seems like it was just handed to me, but in reality, was hard-earned from thousands of acts of courage and innovation. My sincere thanks to all of the panelists and the wrestlers who showed up and treated your fans with such authentic and spontaneous respect and love.

Classic wrestling hunks paving the way

At the risk of forgetting someone, I just want to personally thank BG East’s Kid Leopard, Kid Vicious, Sailor Rob, Shane McCall, Bob Wood, Bill Erland, Mason Brooks, Drake Marcos, Ricky Roma, Ben Monaco, Mickey Knoxx, Ollie Watts, Seon Cruz, Randy Roberts, Matt Carleton, Ethan Andrews, Kayden Keller, Brian Powers, Gabe Steel, and… fuck… I’m sure I’m missing some more. Chime in and remind me!

Classic wrestling hunks loving what they do and the community they’re part of

And deep gratitude for photo permissions from Ricky Roma and Tarz Lando, and, as always, BG East!

WrestleFest – Community

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This past weekend, I enjoyed participating in my second WrestleFest gathering, and my first in New York. It was intense and fun and, not unlike my experience of NYC itself, dozens of different things at the same time. My first adventure to a WrestleFest was last summer, when I thoroughly enjoyed attending WrestleFest Canada. In Toronto, everyone I met I was meeting for the first time. This past weekend felt more like a reunion, catching up with old friends. Well, maybe less like a reunion and more like going back to summer camp to rekindle friendships forged in the intensity of periodical pop-up community. Well, summer camp in Manhattan… with snow falling… in mid-February. Okay, okay, metaphors fail me. It was awesome. I’ll just start there.

I squeezed in a healthy amount of hot wrestling action, I’m happy to report. As in Toronto, I got to enjoy some group scraps and several 1-on-1 matches. In the weeks leading up to WrestleFest, I actually dabbled with the idea of just scheduling matches with wrestlers I’d already matched with, and enjoyed so much, last summer. But the opportunity to wrestle some guys I’d never met in person sort of fell into my lap (in one case, quite literally). Wrestling with new faces turned up that intensity of trying to anticipate the unknown. I’d have had a blast if I’d only wrestled with friends I already knew I was going to have a great time with, but there’s definitely value added in that nervous lead up to the knock at the door, and the reveal of finding out how well the wrestler on the other side of the door matches his MF picture and, more importantly, my mental picture of what it would be like to lock up with the hottie with whom I’ve been exchanging messages and negotiating what to expect of each other. I sincerely hope that my new-to-me opponents this past weekend go into the looking-forward-to-the-rematch column for the next time. They were hot, sweaty, and exhausting times with genuinely fascinating and incredibly sexy guys. My first-time opponents were snarky fun and funny and all had a similar laid back vibe that really resonated with me this weekend.

Opportunities to rematch and reconnect with former opponents/pals was, of course, a major highlight. I got to tussle with SeattleFight and my buddy Bobby again. I thoroughly enjoyed another round with one of my coaches from WrestleFest Canada, TxWresl, who generously assured me that I’ve improved since last August. And I got to go a few entirely unexpected rounds with Scott Williams, who I knew was going to be attending WrestleFest, but with whom I hadn’t managed to actually schedule a match ahead of time. I was less inhibited and less in my own head in these rematches. Knowing a little bit about what to expect, and what was expected of me, let me jump into the middle of the intensity of a match right from the start. With familiar opponents, I spent less time battling my insecurities, less time wondering if I was as skilled as they’d hoped, as attractive as they’d hoped, as competitive as they’d hoped, as I am when squaring off against new opponents. The rematches are sort of a blur to me because they all felt like one furiously intense chapter in a much longer story, and I love that.

I was humbled many times this weekend by blog readers coming up to introduce themselves and offer praise and encouragement for this labor of love I’ve been typing away at for almost 15 years (I just double checked… my first post was May 15, 2009… someone bake me a cake in May). It’s sort of stunning and surreal to hear guys say how meaningful my seemingly aimless ramblings have been to them, often as an early point of contact with homoerotic wrestling community. Like, woah. A few guys this weekend described discovering for the first time that there are others with an erotic interest in wrestling by stumbling across my words here on the blog, and then fast forward to 2024, and those guys are in Manhattan with 300 other like-minded guys celebrating homoerotic wrestling in person. Amazing! Humbling. Like, fuck, I need to go back and edit all of my old blog posts for the infinite typographical and grammatical errors I keep piling onto these pages and making myself cringe when I re-read them, considering this is seriously formative stuff for some of you!

All joking aside (well, some of the joking aside), my first and biggest impression of Wrestlefest NYC 2024 as I try to digest it all these few days later is community. It was about relationships, new and continuing. It was about more than just not being alone, but being part of something that feels vital and grounding and connected to something I know is deeply true in me. It was all about that knowing grin we share when we recognize that same thing that’s inside me is also inside you, and even if it isn’t something we talk about with just anybody in our lives, for this one moment at this event, it’s right there, out in the open, connecting us to one another.

I’ve got more to say, but just wanted to start there in downloading and debriefing this past weekend. WrestleFest NYC was plugging into community that I didn’t always know existed, but now can’t imagine my place in the world without being part of it.

Wrestlefest NYC

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If you’ve read my posts from last summer about my experiences at Wrestlefest Canada, it’ll come as no surprise that I’ve been keenly interested in seeing if I can make it to Wrestlefest NYC this year. It took me a while to sort out the details, but I’m excited to report that this coming weekend, I’ll be in NYC for the much-anticipated event. “Much-anticipated” is sort of understatement, really. There are several hundreds of guys confirmed coming this year, by all accounts blowing out the previous attendance record by a mile (or approximately 1.6 km for those of you coming from out of the country). The exact count is nebulous. Out of the “raw” list of confirmations on MeetFighters, looks like about 210 or so of them have confirmed on the Wrestlefest Discord server. And then there’s an alternatively organized Wrestlefest happening that overlaps, but not exactly, with the event starting this weekend with its own roster. And then there are a ton of local NYC Meetfighters who are apparently setting up matches with attendees, but not necessarily signing up themselves. There’s a ton of energy and what feels like good will and excitement bubbling up in the chats, though.

Something new this year is an expanded list of social events and organized wrestling meet-ups that my friend Scooter has been working on for literally over a year. Local venues seem excited to welcome Wrestlefest attendees, such as the Stonewall Inn hosting the Wrestlefest kick-off party on Friday night, followed by public oil wrestling at the Rock Bar later on that night. There are too many organized events and group wrestling meet-ups to mention here, but the Wrestlefest NYC website has an awesome list, if you’re interested. One of those events is of particular interest to me, because I’ll be directly involved.

Sunday afternoon, I’ll be moderating a Gay Wrestling History panel discussion and Q&A session with BG East wrestlers. I know what you’re thinking, because I’m thinking the same thing. Has there EVER been a more perfect job for me!?!? Organizing the event, it started off as an opportunity to hear insights from guys who’ve been wrestling in the community and building the community into what it is, for decades. This is the 20th anniversary of Wrestlefest NYC, and the 45 anniversary of BG East, and we’ve come a long, loooooong way to get the point where 200 or 300 (or more) guys from all over the world are showing up to wrestle and celebrate our shared passion for all things gay wrestling-related. When I say they’re coming from all over the world, I mean it literally. I know for a fact there are wrestlers from Italy, Germany, Mexico, France, the UK, and elsewhere setting up matches for the fest.

I think it’s super easy to celebrate this momentum as if its something new and novel. But having the biggest Wrestlefest NYC in history, and even having the first WFNYC 20 years ago, happens because of wrestlers 30, 40, and 50 years ago cobbling together connections and being brave enough to build the foundations of a community in a very different social climate. Tech like MeetFighters (emerging after Global Fight and Yahoo chat rooms and AOL chat rooms) has definitely revolutionized ways that a community like this can grow, but the community was growing long before any of us were nervously lurking in AOL chat rooms wondering if its safe enough to speak up about anything gay-related. Who we are today, and what we’re able to celebrate so remarkably openly in NYC this weekend, are built on foundations that were being laid long before most of us ever imagined something like a 300+ person gathering of guys enjoying homoerotic wrestling. Community has been gathering in lots of different places, in different formats and configurations, and those iterations shape who and what we are when we gather together this weekend in NYC.

Anyway, that panel is going to ROCK! So much of the history traces its way in and out of homoerotic wrestling videos, so many of the panelists also happen to be wrestling stars that I’ve fanboyed over and written extensively about for the past almost 15 years here on the blog. We originally rented a room with a capacity for 60 folks to gather together for the panel. We marketed it to the quickly growing Wrestelfest attendees list, and we very quickly had a waiting list. And we were hearing from attendees super excited for historical insights and stories, as well as fellow fanboys like me wanting some star sightings of our favorite BG East wrestlers. So, this weekend, we secured a larger space and doubled the available tickets. Within two days, we already have 86 seats reserved, and just 34 or so left up for grabs. I won’t be surprised if we max out the full 120 capacity by Sunday!

Because it’s BG East’s 45th anniversary, and because so many BG East stars were already involved with the history panel and even more were planning to attend the event, we’ve also organized a Q&A session with BG East wrestlers who’ll be there. I’m moderating that part of the event as well, and I alternate back and forth between thinking to myself that this is the most blazingly hot fantasy come true for me, and then thinking “what the fuck have I got myself into!?” The list of wrestlers is still coming together, but there are hot hunks who were there 45 years ago, as well as hot hunks who’ve shown up on our screens and in our fantasies all along the way through to today. I’ll be taking written questions from the audience to pose to the wrestlers in attendance, so comment below if you’re interested in me posing a question you have. Or, even better, if you’re in NYC on Sunday and want to join us, you can reserve your ticket (they’re free but mandatory) and join us! But do it fast before all the tickets are gone. And if you read the blog, say hey to me, because I blog for positive reinforcement.

Happy 20th anniversary, Wrestlefest NYC! Happy 45th anniversary BG East! And, hell, happy 15th anniversary Sidelineland!

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Discovering Will

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My friend AR and I have spent a ton of time over the past year and a half exploring homoerotic wrestling fantasies in graphic and written form. AR is pathologically unassuming and humble, but he gets 100% of the credit for getting me back to enjoying writing homoerotic wrestling fiction. After publishing original stories for several years over a decade ago, I took a break from it and just never got back to it until AR invited me to work on projects together. The solitary nature of writing, and only inconsistently getting feedback that anyone was reading it (much less enjoying it) wasn’t reinforcing enough to keep my head in it. But with AR’s enthusiasm for it and the immediate reinforcement from our joint writing sessions, I’m enjoying the writing process more than ever before.

Pretty early on in our writing collaboration, we crafted an original character named Will Strong that we keep coming back to, again and again. Will is a hot, young muscle jock who, while on vacation in South Florida, finds himself recruited to audition for BG East. He’s naturally athletic, with a hot bod (of course) and a naive, earnest ambition to live out a pro wrestling dream he’s secretly nurtured since watching mainstream pro on TV as a kid (how many of us can identify with that?!). The first thing AR and I wrote about Will was a tag team match he wrestled with a certain homoerotic wrestling blogger, living out his homoerotic wrestling dream he’s secretly nurtured since watching BG East wrestling as a young adult (see the parallels?… we’re subtle). But we keep circling back to track Will Strong’s journey as a BG East rookie, in part because he’s hot and sexy and sensationally provocative heel bait. But he also has become a device to explore the behind-the-scenes as well as on-camera drama we enjoy imagining fueling the feuds and fires that both AR and I have long found so entertaining in BG East’s catalog. The more we write Will, the more 3D he and our BG East fantasyverse become, and it’s turning me on and tuning me into so much of what this entire blog is about.

So, I’ve started an anthology collection of the Will Strong journey that AR and I have been writing, that we’re eager to share with you. After that initial tag team match we wrote, we actually wrote a couple of prequels to explore Will’s origin story. I posted the first piece of the collection, “Discovering Will,” several months ago. We now have, no shit, more than a dozen more complete stories tracing Will’s footsteps deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole as a BG East fantasyverse rookie, caught up in the Boss’ diabolical schemes and squarely stuck in the sights of hungry heels who want a piece of what Will brings to the homoerotic wrestling ring.

In this first installment of Wednesday’s with Will here on the blog, I invite you to take a look at “Discovering Will,” the very beginning of Will’s journey. The plan is to start posting subsequent stories each week, in chronological order of Will’s path through the looking glass, to share with fans of homoerotic wrestling fiction what AR and I have been up to. And as an added bonus, you get to check out the dizzying, hot, intensely sexy 3D artwork AR produces to illustrate each title.

BG East’s Jesse Suave wrestles Will Strong in Florida Fights 12

Check out the excerpt below from Will’s BG East audition, facing ripped bodybuilder beauty Jesse Suave. They’re both getting their strings pulled by the Boss, KL, all in pursuit of the hottest homoerotic wrestling combat that fans want to see. Read the full story of “Discovering Will” here, and check out the anthology page in the coming weeks, as we track Will Strong’s descent into increasingly brutal stakes and his totally unexpected erotic self-discovery:

With a proud grin, Will let go and backed up, letting his opponent out of the corner. Furiously, Jesse lunged forward and landed a cracking slap across the stunned rookie’s face. Completely out of reflex, Will pulled back and pounded the palm of his hand across the chiseled left cheek of his opponent in retribution.

The violent slap spun Jesse around, dazed and clutching his throbbing face. Before he realized what was happening, he felt the Canadian’s strong arms shoved underneath his armpits. Will’s fingers laced together at the back of Jesse’s head as he locked down a full nelson, just like the muscle pros he cheered for on TV.

Jesse gasped at the power pressing his head forward and yanking his shoulders out of joint. His chiseled chin dug into his chest, as Will leaned back and lifted him dancing on his toes. An involuntary whimper slipped from the back of his throat, tears stinging his eyes.

“Am I doing this right,” Will asked with a smirk. “Is this the way this works?” He flexed hard and shook the straining hunk in his arms. Hot sweat made their bodies slide across one another, as Jesse squirmed against his restraints.

The Boss laughed loudly. “Trust me, kid, you’re doing great. Keep it up!”

The proud grin on Will’s face started to disappear when the stunningly strong fitness model in his arms began to flex, pressing his arms downward. He tried to double down on the full nelson, desperately digging his fingertips into the back of Jesse’s head. But the steady, powerful flex of the muscle hunk in his arms, accompanied by the feral growl snarling deep in Jesse’s chest, began to pry Will’s fingers apart. 

Sweat continued to make their flexing muscles slick. With a sudden grunt, Jesse pumped his arms and pecs still harder, suddenly popping apart Will’s hands. With another snarling flex, Jesse shoved his arms down, making Will’s eyes grow wide with surprise at his shocking show of power.

Smoothly, Jesse reached over his shoulder with his right hand and grabbed hold of the back of his opponent’s head. Dropping to one knee, he pulled Will forward, flipping the rookie head-over-heels. Will bounced hard on his tailbone as he came to rest on his ass. Jesse’s right knee immediately pressed painfully into his spine, as the Canadian’s chin was held tightly in his opponent’s hands. An involuntary gasp of pain escaped from his gaping mouth as Jesse yanked backward on the chinlock, brutally bending his backbone across his knee and applying dizzying pressure on Will’s straining neck.

– Read all of “Discovering Will” at Sidelineland Stories –