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Wednesday January 18 2023 - Rematch: Ben MonacoRecent matches
Ben Monaco (id 5578) and I finally had a rematch since September 2017. I admit that we should not have waited 5+ years, but I guess work and other stuff has kept us apart. I also tend to let Ben reach out to me first because I feel he is probably very busy, but I really should shut up and take the initiative. Yes, I'll reiterate that I'm terrible in keeping in touch with my opponents. πŸ˜₯

Ben is now around 200 lbs and he seems to have more hair on his chest (he was around 160 when I first met him). Not a problem of course. πŸ˜‚ Bigger and hairier has always been my preference. We discussed and caught up on our career and on our lives for the past years. We then proceed to walk into his bedroom to wrestle on the bed... with a casual reminder of a hole I once dug into the wall back on February 2015 (the hole has since been cleanly patched up). It was our first match back then and I believe I was one of his first opponent. He chose me because he felt that I would probably be easy to deal with, small, jobberish, gullible, weak, so, in all probability, certainly easy to defeat. In short, I'm the perfect harmless practice dummy. Once we locked up, he understood that size doesn't really mean much. I ended up making him submit in my scissors a couple of times and he eventually nudged me with his foot to push me down from the bed as a sign of his playful discontent of his disgruntled defeat, but my elbow pierced the wall as I fell. πŸ˜‚

Needless to say, we were careful this time around on the bed to not do any sudden movements or to not purposely throw each other off the bed. We kept our semi-competitive wrestling style. I have to say though that I still have a feeling that Ben is not delivering his full blows against me because he is a jobber at heart, but to give him the benefit of the doubt, he did came back from an intensive session at the gym where he still has a few sores and aches.

Mind you, his headlocks are still as devastating as ever. It depends on the angle, but the same applies to the body scissors. A scissor on the coccyx is pointless, a scissor near the rib area is fatal. For him, the headlock on the upper head is a warm and friendly hug, but a headlock where he presses you against his chest with a firm lock on the neck, pressing it backwards as to snap it is an instant submission. πŸ˜… Yeah, don't get caught in those, but that's easier said than done.

He still loves to punch his opponent on the chest, arms, legs, and he still does claws and a few nerve holds... when he does that, I usually return the favor by doing the same to show him how fun and exciting it is to be caught in one of thoseπŸ€ͺ He does recall not to use his nails because their effects only come into play a few days later. He dug his fist deep (or elbow? I don't recall) into my chest in an attempt to make me feel discomfort or to break free of an impending submission, but he does know that I have an unusually good threshold for pain. I probably should have gave up or at least attempted to break free earlier anyway instead of enduring the pain, because it did left me with a temporary mark on my skin.. but not to worry, this usually goes away after a few days. Again, my skin marks very easily.



Yes, I have a significant belly in this pic. πŸ˜…


I can still make him submit to my scissors at around 30% of my full leg power. This allows me to be arrogant and to casually put my hands behind my head or to flex while I do my scissors while saying "I don't need my arms to beat you 😜" just to show how an arse I can be. πŸ˜‚

The word of the evening here would be "mean". That's how Ben would qualify me for torturing him with scissor subs after scissors subs after grapevine subs after leg scissors... and I also managed a bearhug submission on him, but to his credit, he was exhausted after trying to fight back for a prolonged period of time. πŸ˜…

After an hour or two, we gave ourselves a big mutual bear hug, discussed about the wrestling community and underground and we've agreed to NOT wait another 5+ years before our next rematch. Hopefully, we shall meet again maybe in a few months? πŸ˜€

A comment I did find amusing is that Ben Monaco pointed out the proliferation of wrestling sites, the recycling of wrestlers hopping from one organization to another (a wrestler who wrestled for BG will probably end up on TA, W4H, MDW, MBW, etc.) and the explosion of social network content (Watchfighters, Only Fans, Just for Fans, etc.). We both agreed that the great thing about this is that we get more content and that the money is now distributed in a better way among the wrestlers and other individually owned content creators, which is better than a single entity or big corporation keeping and hogging all the profits and seizing all the royalties. Competition is healthy. It allows these wrestlers to make money to travel the world and share their work with everyone.

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