Angle #10 Revisited
Brute Baynard vs Zip Zarella, Demolition 29 (BG East)
Brute Baynard versus Zip Zarella is a good example of an angle that's a favorite of mine - the iron-hard pro eviscerating a whiny wannabe. I wrote about it almost ten years ago: Angle #10. Zip's fate is sealed before we see either him or Brute. We hear shouts. We hear Zip whimpering. Then Brute bursts into camera view, shoving Zip to the ring, where he dribbles Zarella's head against a turnbuckle. Zip has lost this one before it has properly started, and I get the sense that, despite his cringing pleas for mercy, he knows he stepped over a line with this strongman.
I'm not ordinarily a fan of squash jobs. I get why others like them - the Adonis cut down in his prime, his innocent but studly body served up to titillate fans. Take away the innocence bit, and I climb on board. Then it's comeuppance, and I love it. We don't know what Zip said or did to piss Brute off, but we've seen Zip's arrogance at work in plenty of his previous contests. As I said a decade ago, about a different ring story, "the guy's making a pest of himself and really he's just begging to get knocked down a peg or two."
Brute has the more impressive physique and riveting ring presence. Even when he isn't trying to intimidate, he's intimidating. The guy has the solid build of the classic ring punisher of past and present. What about Zip? Hipster tattoos, a self-absorbed aloofness, depilated body, more silky than hard, wavy hair that gives Brute something to clutch onto. This is a story of the soft versus the hard. This is the fate of a boyish man who thinks he's tougher than he is, whose misfortune is to piss off a real man's man who knows how to wreck a punk.
Currently an Own-To-Arena set of matches, Demolition 29 will be coming out on DVD soon enough. I've seen and liked all three matches. All three are top quality and surprisingly raw, even by BG East's usual standards.
Visit BG East here.
I'm not ordinarily a fan of squash jobs. I get why others like them - the Adonis cut down in his prime, his innocent but studly body served up to titillate fans. Take away the innocence bit, and I climb on board. Then it's comeuppance, and I love it. We don't know what Zip said or did to piss Brute off, but we've seen Zip's arrogance at work in plenty of his previous contests. As I said a decade ago, about a different ring story, "the guy's making a pest of himself and really he's just begging to get knocked down a peg or two."
Brute has the more impressive physique and riveting ring presence. Even when he isn't trying to intimidate, he's intimidating. The guy has the solid build of the classic ring punisher of past and present. What about Zip? Hipster tattoos, a self-absorbed aloofness, depilated body, more silky than hard, wavy hair that gives Brute something to clutch onto. This is a story of the soft versus the hard. This is the fate of a boyish man who thinks he's tougher than he is, whose misfortune is to piss off a real man's man who knows how to wreck a punk.
Currently an Own-To-Arena set of matches, Demolition 29 will be coming out on DVD soon enough. I've seen and liked all three matches. All three are top quality and surprisingly raw, even by BG East's usual standards.
Visit BG East here.
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