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Jesse Zane vs Joey McCoy, Catalog 9 - The Boys Muscle Up! (MuscleBoy Wrestling)

Believe the hype! MBW's new catalog predicts "Joey vs Jesse will go down in history as one of our all time best matches!" This is not an overstatement. Indie wrestler Joey McCoy, 5'4", 135#,  makes a breathtaking debut in the MuscleBoy mat room. His self-assurance and force as a grappler may surprise even fans who know him through his ring work in the Midwest. He most certainly revs up Jesse Zane, 5'5", 145#, whose unflustered scientific approach to wrestling has always impressed me, but, man oh man, Jesse goes all-out tiger on Joey! I've never seen Zane this firm, this aggressive, this sublimely brutal. The way he works Joey over lights me up in ways his previous matches have only touched on. This contest is like falling head over heels in love with somebody you've been pals with for years. It's exhilarating and a little scary at the same time.

The welterweights maintain close give and take for the duration of the contest. (A tag on to the end of the contest promises a rematch - possibly in the ring, a more familiar situation for Joey.) This is not one of MuscleBoy's XXX or even R-rated matches, but it gives me the tingles nonetheless. Jesse and Joey put each other over via terrific detail work and fine sweaty sells. Once the introductions are over, the 36-minute video is nonstop pugnacity, though never so out of control as to be sloppy or vicious. I've labeled other MBW releases "hard romance," but McCoy vs Zane is "hard camaraderie" because the meanness never boils over into the urge to maim or penetrate and it's always clear these guys want to impress each other more than wreak destruction. That said, I have seen few matches tougher than this one, which compares favorably to Jonny Firestorm's balloon-modeling manhandlings at BG East and Eli Black's cat-and-mouse humiliations at UCW.

A rematch - in the ring or again on the mats - could hardly top what this fight already pulls off, but I most definitely want  to see Joey and Jesse try to outdo themselves.


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