These guys are always looking to meet new friends for rasslin, lifting, carrying, and other strongman feats. Wanna meet these two big guys? Simply check them out!
There are more and more wrestling companies nowadays that decide to focus their business on Video On Demand (VOD) or online file downloads.
If you are dealing with Paypal to purchase these types of virtual products, please be aware that you are NOT covered if the seller doesn't deliver the goods. Apparently, in Paypal's policy, virtual or intangibles items are simply not under their buyer protection program.
I learned this the hard way, so please be careful. To avoid this issue, discussion forums and groups are always a good start to ask around if you are not sure if you should trust a company or merchant for a purchase with Paypal. You can refer to the Links section for sites that you can use to discuss about this.
For instance, this group occasionally talk about the reliability of online acquisition of products from wrestling video companies:
You can start by checking out the archives or asking your questions there before making a purchase: "Is the company's site secure? Do buyers have good experience or bad experience from the seller? Does the store let you re-try your download if it failed? What is their refund policy? etc."
The answers to these questions will probably be available on the site of the seller, but sometimes it's better to ask someone else who has already bought from the site.
In an attempt to separate real bearhugs from cartoon and comic-based bearhugs, I will be segregating most of the latter ones by isolating them uniquely into the bearhug database.
The thing is that the majority of users prefer real bearhugs, so in order to avoid polluting the uploads section with low rated cartoon and comic bearhugs, they will simply not be listed there. Illustrations that are CGI drawing or hand-drawn by bearhug drawing artists are an exception and they will still remain in the bearhug uploads.
Hence, most cartoon and comic-based bearhugs will be viewable in the bearhug database only and you'll already notice that some of these images have already started their migration. Also, cartoon screen captures have a higher chance of being segregated due to resolution and image quality constraints.
While I'm at it, I should reiterate that women in bearhugs should be forwarded to the Bearhug Fan Page which exclusively focus their site on that particular topic.
For the remainder of this month and the month of September that is incoming, I will be awarding a +50,000 bearhug points per each new personal bearhug submitted to the bearhug uploads section. The only condition is that you need to be in this bearhug, submitting a personal bearhug involving two wrestlers that are not of you but only your friends or from somebody else does not count.
So, if you have a camera, this is your chance for making quick and huge points. Feel free to use a mask or blur your visage if you are concerned about privacy. You can be either the victim or the bearhugger.
If you recently submitted a personal bearhug and I forgot to add the bonus, please hit me up because I'm a bit distracted.
For quite some time now, there is a multiplier bonus that affects all upload votes. The cap for it is 4x. You can increase your multiplier by 1 (from 1x to 2x) simply by visiting the site of a sponsored company bearhug upload before you start voting.
Today's pic of the moment is an oldie, but has always been one of my favorites. It was submitted all the way back in March 2008. The title that was given to it was "Big Bully Beach bearhug", but I see it more like a bearhug between friends. I guess we all fantasize differently.
This bearhug has a huge identification bounty of 250,000 points and it's also another one of those uploads that is mysteriously underrated: it currently has a measly average rating of 7.80...
Why the heck this bearhug deserves a rating this low is beyond me.
This bearhug can be retrieved under Upload ID 64. Yes, it's actually one of the first bearhugs to be submitted when the upload system was implemented. If you'd like to give a little share of your time, please boost its rating a bit.
You guys know that I tend to follow huge guys like Ted Arcidi and Bill Kazmaier. Big John Studd fits nicely in that category. I've always liked how he often ended his matches with either a single shoulder backbreaker, a crucifix or a bearhug with arms-in.
In the video below, Studd finishes off Casey with this devastating squeeze. It makes you think twice before facing those strong farm boys.
Also worth a look is Entry ID 1042 in which Studd faces two opponents in a handicap match: Chip Atkinson and the Black Knight. Studd submits Atkinson to a bearhug and releases him. He celebrates his victory with the referee, but the Black Knight attacks Studd from behind. Studd simply turns around and also gives the Black Knight a bearhug. It's as if the Black Knight said:
- "Hey! What about me? Can I have a bearhug, too?"
Then Studd would reply:
- "Yea, I know your jealous. Come to daddy and let me crush you in these thick huge muscular arms!"
Lastly, if you want Studd against a slightly even opponent, check the match against Mad Dog Vachon in Entry ID 1125. The long bearhug is near 5:40.
For those who enjoy watching two muscular guys (one with a nice goatee) trying to battle it out for the winning crown, this will probably be a match you will enjoy.
If you move your mouse on the thumbnails of the results page or the gallery view page, the image will enlarge itself near the cursor just like it is already the case for images in the wrestling personals and the bearhug database.
Note that the image will not be enlarged if there is a requirement for the upload (for example, this applies when an amount of voting, upload or points is required to view the image).
The site's speed and reliability seems to be stable enough to apply this feature to the bearhug uploads.
A new story has been submitted: it is entitled "One and You Are Done" which can be accessed in Database Entry ID 1230. There are currently two chapters.
Speaking of stories, some of the files I posted online after a conversion server-side have been messed up. If you encounter a file/story that looks garbled, has a bad presentation layout such as all the lines in a single paragraph or any other layout problem, please let me know about it by pointing out the IDs or titles of the stories that are affected.
For the list of all existing stories, simply click here.
As you may have noticed, the site reached its goal this month in terms of donations. This was acheived by a generous donator.
As such, I have decided to celebrate this by adding 14 video clips, the majority of which are bearhugs. Half of these new videos are accessible without any constraints, the other 7 can be accessed with respectively trust ratings of 11, 12, 15, 19, 21, 25 and 31.
No, these are not lottery numbers.
If you have a trust rating of 20, you'll be able to view clips with trust ratings of 11, 12, 15 and 19, but you won't see those with values that are 21, 25 and 31.
You can access the clips by looking at the listing of newest clips. If you'd like to view the hidden ones, you can try to learn about the trust rating by clicking here.
Lastly, as an added bonus, you will receive a bonus +10,000 bearhug points if you voted on at least 50 video clips. Right now, there are 160 clips, so it shouldn't be too difficult to reach the basic 50. Note however that some clips do require unlocking before you can actually cast your vote on them, but around 70 clips currently do not have any locks on them. Points per video clip vote has also been increased by five times fold: from 40 to 200 points.
For those who already have 50 votes casted in the video clips section, you will not be able to hit the bonus threshold that will award the points to your account. Instead, you will have to send me a message so that I can personally add the bonus to you and triple it due to your early participation.
Note: If you manage to cast 100 or 150 votes in the video clips section, the bonus are respectively 50,000 and 100,000 points. And yes, 3x applies if you managed to get that amount of votes before today's announcement, but again, you'll have to contact me. Also note that you cannot get these points if you have not unlocked bearhug points before casting your votes.
I've added a search for wrestlers involved in the ID search of the uploads section. This is useful if you know the names of both wrestlers involved in a bearhug, but you don't know who is the bearhugger or the victim. The search will return bearhugs given by both sides. If instead, you only know the name of just one of the wrestlers, just keep using the standard search and enter the name in the ID field.
Similarly, each dual-identified upload now have a link you can click to retrieve "Similar Uploads". This will return all bearhugs given by the identified bearhugger and victim between themselves. For example, if you asked for similar uploads between Frank and Ace, the engine will return you images where Frank bearhugs Aceand also, where Ace bearhugs Frank. Give it a try. Scroll down near the bottom of this upload to find the "Similar Uploads" link.
I should mention that the link only appears for a given upload if both wrestlers are identified.
While you're at it, there's quite a few images on the first few pages of the newest uploads that are low in votes, meaning that maybe a good amount of users haven't seen them yet. So, if you haven't checked them out, now would be a pretty good time to do so.
Bearhugger.net unfortunately doesn't reach its goal in terms of monthly financial support so I felt this was a good way of providing the site extra revenue for upgrade, bandwidth, hosting and maintenance without hindering or crippling the exiting functionality and features available to everyone.
In addition, Vertex produces videos that may be of interest to a lot of users on the site. They're pro wrestling oriented style and the models featured in their products is closely related to the taste of many.
Please note however that if you have donated at least once, those banners will not appear once you are logged in.
Speaking of financial support, the donation page now accepts monthly recurring donations. Sponsors still represent a small fraction of the site's income so your help is always appreciated.
This was actually posted more than 2 years ago, but I'm bringing it right back to the front because it still remains unidentified. No wrestler name, no company or no information whatsoever... heck, it could even be just a personal bearhug between two random guys. Still, these guys are so sexy and it wouldn't hurt to obtain any information about them.
As it stands right now, this bearhug has a rating of 8.17, but in my book, this should have a 9.00 minimum.
Care to boost it up? If you do, just vote on Upload ID 203.
Update: This was pretty fast, but Kdawg2469 (id 1068) actually made the identification not long after this blog entry was released. The sad thing is that is that the bearhug doesn't appear to be a product.. but just two models that happened to be in a bearhug at the time of the shoot.
Their videos are pro wrestling, so you won't find the stuff you'd normally find with BG or Thunder's Arena. Last time I checked, they have at least a dozen videos available at a unit price of 10$ each, which is pretty affordable. On top of that, two of their videos have bearhugs.
Last time I linked a YouTube video to the site, the video was removed a few days later, so let's say I'm not really excited to post another one.
However, if I was going to go with the concept of not doing something anymore because of a tiny little mishap, I wouldn't be able to post anything anymore. So, let's hope this bearhug from Arcidi to Terry Gibbs remains online:
Profile focus: JonRon
SydneyMale, 5'9", 170 lbs, NSW, Australia
BearhugSD, 6'0", 314 lbs, California, USA
Rslmoh, 5'11", 165 lbs, Ohio, USA
