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  UCW + RHW: New stuff - Tuesday March 9th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
Both UCW Wrestling and Rock Hard Wrestling have a couple of new matches to share with us. Since these are small companies that are still in their beginning stages, I hope you guys will give them a little bit of support. If not, you can at least give them your written advice on how they can improve their matches to make them the way you like 'em.  |  |
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 A short - Monday March 8th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
MarkLondon71 (id 161) has submitted a short story to the database section. While we're on the subject, keep in mind that story submissions are still counted as +100,000 bearhug points a piece.  |   |
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| Candy.. candidates - Sunday March 7th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
A couple of new candidates have been added to the listing for the bearhugger or not section. Yes, there's still a big backlog for it, which currently stands at 40, so please do not re-submit your candidate if he does not appear yet. Just give the system some more time. |  |
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| Visits and visitor history with rollover popup - Saturday March 6th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
I've now added the rollover popup images with preview thumbnails on the visit and visitor history pages. I personally seldom touch those pages myself which explains why I never bothered to upgrade them. The upgrade was requested by Be-Bear (id 2910). If you'd like to make more changes like this to other pages, please let me know about it. |   |
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| Profile focus: Makemetap - Friday March 5th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
Today's profile focus is Makemetap (id 1749) a wrestler from London, UK who wishes to be fought. Measuring 6'0" and weighing 160 lbs, he considers himself as a nice average guy who loves to be worked over by heels. If you think you're the right wrestler for him, then you should check out his profile ID 1749. |  |
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| Quick sweep + SPJ Wrestling Group - Tuesday March 2nd 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
I did a quick sweep on my listing of Yahoo groups on my account and retrieved the ones that still seemed to be alive. I've then added them to the list of newest links. Note that some of these groups will attract a specific audience. Either ways, if you're not happy with the listing, you can always add your own group or your selection of links. Among the set that was added, I'd like to put a focus on SPJ's Wrestling Group: If you're a jobber at heart like SPJ (or a heel who likes to destroy jobbers), you will no doubt enjoy his group which contain a good handful of jobbing media and content. SPJ mentions it in the intro text: Many of you will also recognize SPJ as one of the wrestlers featured in Vertex Wrestling's videos. You can also check out SPJ's wrestling personal in Profile ID 2707. |  |
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| 2 matches - Monday March 1st 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
If you have a moment, please take a look at the new matches that have been submitted: - Sylvain vs Squeezerian - SubWrestler2010 vs. NickZ Remember to encourage these guys by posting your comments or giving them your thumbs up. |  |
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| ~80 uploads - Sunday February 28th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
Approximatively 80 new uploads have been added to the Uploads Section in the past 2-3 days, courtesy of contributions by Rick (id 2703), RC50 (id 1907) and Tigrexmen (id 640). Now's a good time to get bonus points by voting, identifying or retrieving duplicates. |  |
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| Wrestling personals: New layout - Saturday February 27th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
In an attempt to avoid scrolling to the middle of the screen each time someone views a profile image, I've change the general layout of the wrestling personals profile page. From now on, the general information along with the image of an user appears side-to-side just below the menu and logo image which has been re-sized by half. If you think I messed it up badly, please let me know right now, because I can still revert it back to how it was before. If you like the new layout or have any type of comments and advice about it, then by all means, please voice your opinion about it by writing a comment.  | |
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| Backlog - Saturday February 27th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
I'm aware that there's a backlog of pending items... Not to worry, it will be processed during the week-end. I was a bit busy with the Wrestlefest to go through the new submissions. Pending items are currently waiting in Uploads, Database Entries and Links. |   |
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| NYC Wrestlefest 2010 Review: Wow! - Friday February 26th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
If I could resume the Wrestlefest in NYC this year in one word, it would be: "Wow!" Now if you want the full review, you can read ahead, but please be aware that it is pretty long. I have never wrestled this much in my life. Day 1 After a 9-hour bus trip from Montreal to New York City, I arrived on Sunday February 21 around 4 pm where I checked in to the hotel of the event. At 6 pm, I wrestled both Jobberboy (id 482) and Ed (id 3011) in a mixed match of competitive, some 2 versus 1 and give and take styles. At 9 pm, I had scheduled another wrestling appointment which ended up with, unfortunately, a no-show. The wrestler did however follow-up the next day with an e-mail and mentioned that he was unable to get my room number in time after my check-in. Day 2 On Monday February 22, I started the morning by wrestling JC (abbreviated here because this wrestler asked to be anonymous) at 8:30 am in a semi-competitive match. At 10 am, I took on Joewrestler (id 2970) in mostly competitive submission or promission style. Joewrestler may seem small, but he can pack a punch and deliver some good offense/defense. At 1 pm, I took on NYRassleMan (id 395) in again competitive submission/promission. We later on switched to give and take after draining our energy reserves. I've wrestled NYRassleMan previously back in Montreal and took pictures for Match ID 4. We took the opportunity to take some more shots this time around to create a re-match. At 4 pm, it was time to wrestle Wrestlnfool (id 1886) in a jobber/heel match where I was the heel and he was the jobber completely. This style was a blessing considering that I was weakened earlier by successive active submission matches. During this match, Wrestlnfool had advised me to reserve a time spot on my following days for an Open Room Event where any wrestler can walk in to chat, wrestle or meet other wrestlers. I felt that was an genious idea and went on to create two Open Room Events: one for Tuesday February 23 between 7 pm to midnight and one for Wednesday February 24 between 10 pm to 2 am. I proceeded into informing as much wrestlers as I can about the event. Slightly before 7 pm, I saw NJ_Woodbridge briefly and we wrestled a little bit. The guy was sheer and brute power, I don't think I had ever experienced someone with that much strength, aside maybe from WrestlBud from the Okie Rumble. We couldn't wrestle much because I had to leave for the meet and greet at 7 pm which was held at a restaurant. I think we were about 14 wrestlers at the supper talking cheerfully and trying to set up a few matches. After the meal, around 9:30 pm, I went back to my room with Fillipino python (id 1729), Jobberinnyc (id 1378), Dean2009 and Wrestlg to wrestle in my room (woot!). Since most of us just finished eating, we watched WWE RAW on TV for a little while, but we eventually wrestled after the divas started showing up and nobody was interested in watching them... hehehe. At one point, we were the five of us on the mat(tress)! I was still able to wrestle with Fillipino Python and Wrestlg individually in short competitive or semi-competitive match-ups. With Dean2009, I employed light submission in another short match. That was pretty much my day on Monday, which, in my opinion, was pretty eventful (!!!) As you can see, for the first official full day of match, I've spaced out the matches by 3 hours to allow for stamina recovery in between them. Most of the matches lasted around an hour and a half, giving me another hour and a half to eat up a bit or to rest. Day 3 On Tuesday February 23, I took on NickZ (id 3023) as my early bird wrestler, but I had agreed with him that I would only give 70% of my strength to wrestle him. Since I had already wrestled him previously during the Okie Rumble and knew from my previous match I had back then that it is nearly impossible for me to even have a slight chance of beating him, I didn't want to tire myself completely for the remaining wrestlers I had scheduled for the day. Nevertheless, we had a great time with a competitive to semi-competitive rough housing. At 11 pm, I got to meet Alberto6969 (id 2980) in a competitive/promission then later give and take style. Alberto was extremely experienced, having so much pro wrestling and submission training under his belt. Many of you will probably recognized him as one of the wrestlers from the former JPWA. At 1 pm, I met with Wrestlefan (id 2246) to do some give and take. We also did a little pro match afterwards. At 3 pm, I realized a boo-boo in my schedule and noticed that I scheduled for wednesday something I had expected to schedule on tuesday. I fixed the issue and re-scheduled it for wednesday at a later time. Being free, I contacted my next opponent a little bit earlier: At 3:30 pm, I went to Ruffbear7's room who was originally scheduled for 5 pm where we wrestled in a semi-competitive match. Later on, I took on the role of jobber enjoying whatever holds Ruffbear7 could put on me and attempt to make me tap. I definitely enjoyed this match as I extended it to 3 hours, having extra time because of the previous mischedule. At 7 pm, I went back to my room for the Open Room Event I had scheduled. About 14 wrestlers showed up: Fillipino python (id 1729), Mattsqueezer, Scotilla (id 3020), Wrestlefan (id 2246), Jobberboy (id 482), NickZ (id 3023), Wrestlnfool (id 1886), JackBouvier, Rubberbear, Brawl_Mart, RuffBear7, NJ_Woodbridge, JCEMT and Prostud_MI. Mind you, from the above listing, I only got to wrestle Jobberboy, NickZ, Scotilla, Wrestlnfool, Mattsqueezer, Rubberbear, Jackbouvier and NJ_Woodbridge. And even there, I had a very short match with the last 4. The other wrestlers were there to chat, meet the other wrestlers and watch. Needless to say, I was extremely happy with the turn out at the Open Room. The main style that I've used in the Open Room matches was rough submission. I technically had no chance against Scotilla and NJ_Woodbridge as these powerhouse have way too advanced technical skills and body power for me to even hope to gain any submissions on them. I also have to note that Wrestlnfool gave me a surprise here by employing firm and controlling submission techniques that shows he is no push-over. Then again, he had quite a bit of training from NickZ. Mattsqueezer had the upper-hand on me on submission as well, but it's hard to say since our match was pretty short. With Rubberbear, I employed light submission and finally, for JackBouvier, I got to experience a little warm-up in pro fantasy. Either ways, I had a match scheduled with him for day 4. For this particular day 3, I had my wrestling appointments scheduled out by 2 hours interval, so a little bit rougher than yesterday. However, in several of the matches, some of the wrestlers would come in 30 minutes late and leave 30 minutes early, so I still had a 1 hour between my matches to eat a few snacks and rest up to be ready to rassle again. I was supposed to leave a spot each day for a big supper, but I was greedy and booked those supper spots for matches. By the end of the day, I wasn't that hungry, but my energy was very low. So, please don't do like me, leave a good 2 hours to eat and digest. Day 4 On the last day, Wednesday February 24, the morning started with a nice, quick and good breakfast with Brawl_Mart, Dean2009, JackBouvier and Wrestlnfool (id 1886). I've needed this meal so badly considering that I've ate nothing but snacks and small food items on Day 3. At 11 pm, I started my wrestling with a light match with Jones, a nice and big bear where we mainly traded wrestling holds and had a little bit of semi-competitive wrestling. My next match after that was scheduled between 2 pm to 4 pm and ended up being a no-show. I technically wasted my time with a guy hiding under the alias Scrappy027 which had no profile, no picture, but I had decided to take a risk. He did not even bother to follow-up with an e-mail about his absence. Fortunately, at around 3:30 pm, I had Dean2009 and NickZ (id 3023) showing up a bit earlier. We couldn't wrestle immediately because they just ate... Still, after a while, I wrestled light submission with Dean2009 and rougher submission with NickZ and gave both of them a little bit of massage. Yes, by Day 4, I think we all need a good massage.  At 6 pm, JackBouvier was up and I wrestled my first pro fantasy match. I mean I did a little bit of pro fantasy with my master in Quebec City, but it wasn't as true pro fantasy as it was in the match with JackBouvier. I enjoyed it very much. I felt it was simple because it was a follow-the-flow type of match. JackBouvier is also very fun to tumble with. Interestingly enough, I felt that pro fantasy could be as tiring as competitive/rough submission. In competitive wrestling, you grunt less and concentrate into resisting a particular submission so you somewhat conserve your strength from crying out loud. In pro fantasy, you grunt more while being less impacted by the hits, but you give out your full breath to cry out loud, to grunt or to express your pain, hence tiring you in a different way. JackBouvier's match ended at 7 pm. At this time, he had another match scheduled in his room, so Dean2009, NickZ, Jobberboy (id 482) and WrestleGP_NYC went back to my room to borrow it. The match was technically light to rough submission with optional gut punching, but anyone, if they wanted, could tag-in to continue the submission or help out the other wrestler. It was very fun and interesting although I dunno what style I can call this. Despite the rotations, I was conserving my energy for an upcoming submission match so I didn't get to rotate to tag-in to be able to wrestle WrestleGP_NYC. At 8 pm, I had a match with FChallenger which was very close to UFC-Style with submission (but without the blood of course). FChallenger delivered a lot of punches, which I tried to resist as much as I can while we were wrestling. He was stronger than me, but I still consider our session a very fair match-up. FChallenger made me tap a couple of times. In the few amount of times I was able to be in control, he was able to break free and I was unable to land any successful submissions on him. I have to say that this was the best match I had during the Wrestlefest and also the only match where I got to use my wrestling/fighting gloves. Finally, at 10 pm, I had the Open Room again, but this time, only Wrestlg and NickZ (id 3023) showed up and even then, Wrestlg simply passed by to say hello and I misunderstood that NickZ was too sore to wrestle some more. Had I knew he was still up for wrestling, I still had some strength left for some more rumble.  Anyway, I made a mistake with the Open Room: I scheduled it too late and also caused confusion with my previous one yesterday that was held at 7 pm. I'll have to make sure to be more careful in the future and keep my Open Room times stable. I was particularly tired on day 4, but that's normal... I mean how often do you wrestle for several days several wrestlers with little time to rest in between? Back in Montreal, if I had a match, I would have that single match for the day and nothing else... it is already hard to schedule a single match, but in an event like the Wrestlefest everybody comes for that purpose so it is easier to set up a schedule to manage multiple matches in a day. Day 5 I left New York City on the morning of Thursday February 25 to make sure to avoid the bad weather that was projected. The 9-hour bus trip became a 10-hour trip because of slight delays on the road, multiple stops and longer processing time at customs, but I made it back in Montreal safely. Incidentally, I was being told that I narrowly escaped a snow storm that paralyzed the traffic back in NYC and the surrounding highways. Summary In total, I had around 16 matches, 2 cancellations, 2 no-shows and 1 mischedule. The mischedule was re-arranged to another time spot so that was not a problem. Cancellations I can deal also because I was notified in advance, so I managed to book a different wrestler for a match. No-shows however are very annoying, but they are to be expected when you're attending to an event like this. Not everyone is a nice or reliable wrestler, but still, the majority of the people at the Wrestlefest respected their appointments. 16 out of 18 is after all an 89% wrestling output and that represents a very high rating of scheduled and completed wrestling matches. I guess I should consider myself lucky since back in Montreal, whenever I try to meet new wrestlers, they don't show up about 50% of the time... If I was slightly dissapointed by the attendance number of the Okie Rumble in 2009, this year's matches at the NYC Wrestlefest more than made up for it. I also ended the week with no broken bones, no major muscle pains, just some fatigue, and perhaps a overused knee for trying to make as many people submit to my body scissors. Today, my knee seems to have recovered and I'm all rested up with a good overnight sleep. I'm still giving my knee a day or two before I'll exercise again though... I am really overjoyed to have being able to wrestle that many wrestlers and to experience different styles other than my regular ones. If you're an occasional wrestler like me (where your frequency of wrestling varies from month to month), it is good to rest your body from one match to another. Having the successive matches switch to different styles helped me recover the strength or used different parts of your body to let the other parts recover. In summary, the NYC Wrestlefest is the best wrestling event I had ever attended. Estimated attendance: ~58 My total amount of matches: 16 (Open Room matches are counted as 1) Amount of different wrestlers I wrestled: 17 Official Wrestlefest website: http://hashbock.com/wrestlefest/ |  |
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| POTM #59: Two big guys - Friday February 26th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
I know some would argue that this isn't a real bearhug, but the two big tanks involved in it more than makes up for it. Originally submitted last month by Stritoloso (id 787) as Upload ID 9342, this bearhug has garnered only 3 votes and has an abysmal rating of ... 6.00. Now, would you be kind enough and care to change that?   You know, if there's something I've noticed about ratings, it's that users are becoming much more demanding than in the past. Nowadays, all bearhug uploads have a very hard time crossing the 8.00 mark. |   |
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| Malepix - Tuesday February 23rd 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
This site was actually added last year, but it was a recent post from its webmaster in the WrestleBears group that made me realized how nice some of the pictures really are. Careful though, if you're not into hairy bearded and hairy chested men, you might not like the following site: Check out the gallery where Michael wrestles Daniel. No bearhugs there, but some very great looking wrestling art with various submission holds. |  |
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| 3 New Top 100 Lists - Saturday February 20th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
3 new Top 100 Lists were added: - Best Pro Wrestling Bearhugs - Best Bearhug Sandwiches - Most Commented Bearhugs The first list about pro bearhugs takes into consideration images in the following two categories: "Bearhug in TV wrestling" and "Pro wrestling bearhug". The second list takes into consideration all bearhugs of type "double" and "triple" (currently, this accounts for bearhugs of type 1 bearhugs 2, 2 bearhugs 1, 2 bearhugs 2 and 1 bearhugs 3) The last list is straightforward and counts the number of comments on every upload and determines which ones have the most. All these lists can also be viewed from the Uploads Panel. |   |
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| More styles - Thursday February 18th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
I've added a few other wrestling styles, but if you had previously chose "Long Submision", "Light Submission", Rough Submission" or "Playful Wrestling", you will need to double-check your selections. If you picked the first one, the system was including the 3 others in your list. And if you picked just one of the 3 others, nothing was selected. The bug is now fixed, but everyone's previous selections has been kept as is, so that's why you should double-check your profile's wrestling styles. I also took the opportunity to add another 4 styles: "Semi-Competitive", "Oil Wrestling", "Trading Holds" and "Hero vs Villain". Am I missing any others? Let me know with a comment, please.  | |
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| Um... - Wednesday February 17th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
George of the Jungle has got to be the weirdest movie I've ever seen. However, they have a fight scene that contains a little reverse bearhug with arms-in, but it's a bit short. The really noteworthy parts are the nipple twisting, the tickling and the full nelson that makes the battle below a bit more intriguing and interesting than it should have been... This was originally submitted by Musclekidd07 (id 1593) in Database Entry ID 1035. |  |
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| Wrestlefest in New York City - Tuesday February 16th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
I will be attending the Wrestlefest event this year in New York City from February 22 to February 25, 2010. For the full lising of wrestlers attending the event and for registration information, please use the link below: If you're in the area or if you're part of the event, hit me up and we'll have a match. | |
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| Wrestling Styles - Sunday February 14th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
Wrestling styles can now be defined on every user profiles. To do so, log in and modify your profile, then scroll all the way to the bottom. The selected styles will then be listed on your profile. It is possible to choose as many as you want. However, I may have missed a few, so if your style is not listed, simply use the suggestion box or contact me and it should not take me more than 48 hours for me to add it to the list. | |
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| Wrestling Social Networks - Thursday February 11th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
Here are two wrestling social networks that are recommended by Subjobber (id 713):  Wrestle for Fun Out WrestlingWrestling social networks attempt to look alike larger networks like Facebook or MySpace, but they only relate to wrestling content. As it is the case with most social networks, a free registration is required. | |
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| Blogs - Monday February 8th 2010 | [ Back to top ] |
When people don't want to design a website out of the complications of learning programming languages or having to go through tedious tutorials, they turn to blogs where they can easily post their content without much hassle. In the past year, I've been visiting many of these blogs and some of them hold an important array of media and unique content. Whether it is just wrestling-related or a blog full of shirtless guys, you'd always find stuff you can't find anywhere else. Here are a couple of examples of what you may have been missing from blogs that are listed in the Links Section: - Neverland - Shirtless Freedom - PecMen - Undies Drawer - Dude Tube - Musclaneous - Tios - Muscle Jocks - Wrestlers Bears Unfortunately, like many sites, blogs are often deserted for no apparent reason after a certain time. When you see that the last entry of a blog dates from more than a couple of months ago, you're almost certain that nobody is taking care of it anymore. Speaking of blogs, they are a good source of ideas and photos if you're looking for someone to submit as a candidate for the Bearhugger or Not section.  |  |
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