tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897648734607335225.post4483109974673260322..comments2024-03-28T18:33:38.457-04:00Comments on Ringside at Skull Island: What Now?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897648734607335225.post-35669792132388465112012-03-05T20:39:55.560-05:002012-03-05T20:39:55.560-05:00Is there a market for 1-on-1 kink gay wrestling? T...Is there a market for 1-on-1 kink gay wrestling? There seems to be plenty of businesses with female wrestlers available to wrestle men, offering competitive, semi-competitive, fantasy and domination wrestling, but do those services exist for men wanting to wrestle male kink wrestlers???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897648734607335225.post-40656825723941601572012-01-09T16:43:08.371-05:002012-01-09T16:43:08.371-05:00YouTube has provided an embarrassment of riches fo...YouTube has provided an embarrassment of riches for me (and I’m guessing a lot of others too) ... there is so much content that it’s amazing! And there is wrestling from all over the US, and the world. From classic pro, to the newest of the new indys on YouTube, I almost rarely look at my old tapes and dvds. <br /><br />I do find myself interested in new product and am glad many blogs are now reporting on wrestling kink, but I have not bought many dvds, aside from the occasional BG East sale disk, over the last year or so. There is not too much from the other companies that I feel like interest me (though I can find myself buying from Rock Hard one day, if the funds are available) ... I was not moved to buy from Naked Combat, though it seemed hot, and imho: i find thunder’s to be way too amateur for my taste. <br /><br />I have been buffeted by the continuing BushRecession(TM), so funds for kink are definitely limited, but there is almost too much choice on YouTube to make me pay for dvds these days.<br /><br />This blog and a few others are always “must-reads”!RayAtLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16006157554058325100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897648734607335225.post-28090804081022533332012-01-05T19:56:50.162-05:002012-01-05T19:56:50.162-05:00Having run WrestleMen.com for 15 years now, a site...Having run WrestleMen.com for 15 years now, a site dedicated to all wrestling men, I can undeniably say that it's the result of too much free wrestling content on Youtube. When every wrestling company puts out samples of their videos to watch for free, you end up with a TON of free samples. The thought is it would attract people to go buy full videos, etc., but people are cheap. You can easily get off to 10 good seconds of a free sample. And when you have hundreds and hundreds of free samples..do the math.wrestlervichttp://www.wrestlemen.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897648734607335225.post-65934303701670168662011-12-05T16:27:30.566-05:002011-12-05T16:27:30.566-05:00For fuck's sake, people--Naked Kombat wasn'...For fuck's sake, people--Naked Kombat wasn't wrestling; it was porn! It wasn't supposed to last. It was a quick buck scheme, no more about "wrestling" than a porno with a delivery boy opening a pizza box with a hole for his dick is about fine Italian cuisine. I was always surprised that that Joe and the Sidelineland blog mentioned it at all as if it was on the same level as BGE, Can-Am, Black Wrestling, Thunder's or Rock Hard, especially when some posts have given wrestlers from those companies that actually care about wrestling bad reviews (Rio Garza's matches suck, but Rusty Stevens at NK is burning up the mat?!?). The best NK match made the worst NRW action look like ballet.<br /><br />Piracy? NK videos were everywhere, but that was by design. Kink.com itself "pirates" their videos, expecting that if 1000s of people see them for free, some small percentage of that number will then be excited enough to go to the site and pay for it. It's standard operating procedure in the internet era.<br /><br />And I have to riff on this whole "over saturation of the market" thing. The gay pro wrestling market is not over saturated. It's not even saturated or even just kinda damp. It is massively under, under, under saturated. A fraction of gay fans who watch WWE ever buy a single gay wrestling video. It's simply internalized homophobia--no straight wrestling fan would ever watch BGE and subsequently enjoy just the pieces that appealed to him while overlooking everything else. We do it reflexively, sometimes even parsing through indy companies to find the "real" stuff, as if those details then somehow make it more relevant to us.<br /><br />But by the numbers, the average WWE draw wrestles 2 to 5 times a week, well over 100 matches a year. All of those matches are available, either on TV, DVD or even youtube videos shot by half a dozen smartphones. By contrast, the most prolific worker on the "gay" pro scene appears a dozen times total over the course of a year. Z-man, for obvious example, appeared 4 times at BGE, 4 times at Rock Hard and 8 times at Thunder's. Sixteen matches for an entire year. For less than the price of a crappy Black Friday laptop you can see the full year's output of the most "over exposed" worker in the entire history of gay pro wrestling.<br /><br />That said, I do get the rationale behind that perception. 1) Specifically gay oriented wrestling (or anything for that matter) hasn't been around that long, so to go from Physique Pictorial stuff way back in the day to Old Reliable, CAL and the original BG doing a handful of actual wrestling videos over mail order to the internet era where there's a whole half-dozen companies producing dozens of matches all instantly available at the click of a mouse seems like a massive influx. 2) To then see some of the same guys at some of those same companies sounds like the same old thing, especially if you aren't into that guy. But here's the kicker: the most "over exposed" wrestlers are the ones generating much of the buys. That's why they're used. Forget the whole a guy who's willing to wrestle "for us" should be get paid decently to do it thing. Another way to think of it every Zman and Rio and Cameron Matthews and Jobe Zander and Jake Jenkins and Austin Cooper who works makes it possible for those companies to hire more guys for more matches who might ultimately draw your attention. That's just the way it goes.Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17610270430885095929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897648734607335225.post-31459495764995356522011-12-04T16:44:07.236-05:002011-12-04T16:44:07.236-05:00Bruno makes a good point about over saturation of ...Bruno makes a good point about over saturation of the market, yet the managing entity, kink.com, is too successful an organization to attribute mismanagement as the underlying reason, unless mis-management relates to the content producers that never developed the concept beyond men grappling then fucking. Part of why BGEast is so successful is that they have variations on the theme, ring, mat, gazebo, whatever, with occasional sex thrown in. Had NK bothered to vary the product i would have continued to subscribe, and i suspect their failure to evolve resulted in a corresponding lack of interest from an initially enthusiastic niche market. Then again No Rules Wrestling seems to continue producing content that has never developed beyond good looking guys appropriately dressed yet missing 75% of the moves they attempt to implement, so who the fuck knows....topherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13952321989312840980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897648734607335225.post-64220042289525292562011-12-04T07:51:21.929-05:002011-12-04T07:51:21.929-05:00great article and very good points. there is also ...great article and very good points. there is also http://PiledriveU.tumblr.compiledriveuhttp://piledriveu.tumblr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897648734607335225.post-14543526964221293912011-12-04T07:27:34.978-05:002011-12-04T07:27:34.978-05:00Persuasive logic, Bruno. My first response always ...Persuasive logic, Bruno. My first response always is to look for underlying social, cultural, and historical significance. Economics underlies all that, of course, but I tend towards more sweeping analysis. As you suggest, mismanagement and intense and mounting competition would be more proximate causes of downward turns in business.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03931398523674902390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897648734607335225.post-63704888787734053722011-12-03T21:24:01.684-05:002011-12-03T21:24:01.684-05:00Could it also be that there are too many companies...Could it also be that there are too many companies out there competing for what is basically the same niche market? You named 7 in your post, but I think there are quite a few more. Some were bound to fall to the wayside. Some businesses I know (retail and food) closed down not because they weren't making money, but because they were mismanaged. That might be a reason too.brunohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03328843411213857358noreply@blogger.com