Black Is the New Black










Eli Black vs Kevin Lin, #475 (UCW)

I expected good things of this match and I got them. Kevin Lin is a rising star at UCW, in many ways cut from the same cloth as crowd favorites like Aron, Hannigan, and Marino, wrestlers whose inarticulate reticence draws my sympathy--like gentle woodland creatures these guys--but who can also take care of themselves in a fight. Like these others, Lin is incredibly resilient and tolerant of pain, pretty much a requisite for anybody stepping onto the UCW mat, especially against Black.

Now that he's added a couple hundred bucks to his haircut budget, you might think Eli Black is a changed man, but he's still the master of casual sadism and punk arrogance he's always been. Few wrestlers have Black's instincts for playing with pain, like playing with finger paints or Legos. Nobody can make 'em squirm like Eli. I keep half-hoping some stud will step up and tear this jerk a new asshole, but he's so damn good at what he does that I find myself cheering for him, against all reason and morality.

In the prematch let's-get-acquainted moment, Black exhibits his inability to hold his tongue or to filter ideas from a steady stream of seismic brain farts.
"Your body looks way too long ... and the ... roundness of it. You're like a tree, but you're not wide. You're like a really skinny tree. What's a skinny tree? A palm tree, right? A palm tree's a really skinny thing.  That's what you--you look like a palm tree. I mean your hair does match it. You're kinda like Axel, but your head's not as coconut-y as his. Uh-h-h. And you're Asian. And Axel, I think, is white. So there's another difference. But, dude, your body is really weird."
The riff is entertaining in a manic sort of way, and in Eli's hands, it's free-form smack, with a touch of poetry to it.

Lin suggests a posedown in the center of the circle. Though strikingly different, both bodies look humpable, and while Kevin stretches upward--"like a palm tree"--Eli sneaks in from behind and slams his forearm up Lin's thighs, smashing the balls. Typical UCW. Typical Eli Black.

The action features arm bars, punches, clutches, stretches, backbreakers, surfboards, racks, piledrivers, wedgies, kicks, shoves, scissors, crabs, figure-fours, body slams, even a little arm wrestling and hair pulling too--pretty much the typical UCW dim sum (as in "every form of abuse a body can take ... and dim sum"). The end comes with a volley of knuckle blasts and a lazy man's version of a piledriver that nevertheless does the trick, ensuring that one of these wrestlers is coldly, completely, satisfyingly, brutally knocked the fuck out.


Comments

  1. As you know, Eli is not a wrestler who appeals to me. However, his appearance has improved. The beard looks good on him. And he looks less like an anorexic.

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  2. and "dim sum", what a completely clever turn of phrase, you keep turning it out, and i'll keep reading

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  4. good match. i like comparison and this did not disappoint. eli is jacked and scrappy as usual. lim appears more than a match for eli. cool how he challenges eli to some flexing and arm wrestling. eli rants about lim's odd shaped body but it's clear that lim is the bigger man and has packed on some muscle. eli is rough and aggressive compared with lim's gentle nature. enjoyed the match. look forward to more of lim and seeing how eli fares with the growing size and muscle of the opponents.

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  5. Once again Kevin Lin is wasted, what are those muscles for?!!! Eli just sits on him and beats him up. A waste and a ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ again!!

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  6. As a experienced MMA fight, Eli always executes submission moves so beautifully.

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    1. Eli Black would be a good MMA fight opponent. Like him to be more brutal in his bouts and totally dominate his opponents.

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  7. Agree with the comment what are Lin's muscles for. One can only take so much jobber scenes

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    1. Kevin Lin may have a muscle body, but clearly Eli Black is the superior submission grappler and fighter.

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    2. Kevin's sweet sexy muscles are made to be abused and Kevin suffers beautifully.

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