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Joey Nux vs Christian Thorn (Wrestler4Hire)
The setup is that Christian has been assigned KP duty, when he'd rather be cleaning weapons, Joey Nux's designated task. A fight ensues, ostensibly to determine who will be the boy (guns) and who the girl (kitchen). As a fan of both wrestlers and currently obsessed with one of them, I think the offstage Colonel has made the right decision putting Joey in charge of the firearms - and having him do it in his underwear, that's an example of the military mind working at full capacity.
I don't have to tell you this 20-minute parody of a government training film is a basic rasslin' beatdown. On a technical level, what distinguishes it is the jarringly bleak setting - the low-key lighting and its deep, haunted shadows, the murky jungle-green backdrop and the arresting oversize image of a human skull, and, obviously, the accoutrements of military life that surround Nux in the opening shots.
Better than the stagecraft, though, is the impact of Joey as the centerpiece - the square, sharply angular face, the dead-right cut of his raven-black hair, the black and white gear, and (duh) the aggressively imposing musculature. He barks out his lines to Christian, less a peer of equal rank than a drill sergeant. Elsewhere I have praised Christian (under this and another wrestling name) for his physical expressiveness. He sells even when selling is not the point of the video. He sells for strong and mediocre opponents alike. Against Joey Nux, Christian Thorn doesn't seem to be acting. There are moments in the video when I'm pretty damned sure he isn't.
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I don't have to tell you this 20-minute parody of a government training film is a basic rasslin' beatdown. On a technical level, what distinguishes it is the jarringly bleak setting - the low-key lighting and its deep, haunted shadows, the murky jungle-green backdrop and the arresting oversize image of a human skull, and, obviously, the accoutrements of military life that surround Nux in the opening shots.
Better than the stagecraft, though, is the impact of Joey as the centerpiece - the square, sharply angular face, the dead-right cut of his raven-black hair, the black and white gear, and (duh) the aggressively imposing musculature. He barks out his lines to Christian, less a peer of equal rank than a drill sergeant. Elsewhere I have praised Christian (under this and another wrestling name) for his physical expressiveness. He sells even when selling is not the point of the video. He sells for strong and mediocre opponents alike. Against Joey Nux, Christian Thorn doesn't seem to be acting. There are moments in the video when I'm pretty damned sure he isn't.
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Joey Nux is awesome as usual. He'd be one hell of an opponent in any style wrestling.
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