Shadows

Erik Shadows vs Smokin' Jay Williams, LionHeart South Texas Championship Tournament, 23 October 2015, McAllen, Texas (NWA Wrestling Revolution) 

I get a kick out of the way Erik Shadows' stomach heaves out and then contracts in the first GIF above. It's so animal and predatory it's no surprise the kid's called "The Wolf of the Revolution." In my world of kink, a fighter's respiratory system is one vast and pulsating erogenous zone. Under stress, its motions seem to radiate from the navel, a well-known touch-sensitive hot spot. To quote the venerable Madonna (1985), "When I sticky my finger in my belly button, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine." 

But then there's his fighting spirit, too - most pronounced in his meticulous and strong punishments. That he's not actually a heel in this match (neither is his opponent, Jay Williams) makes his persistent cruelties all the sweeter to me. Dr. L, my friend and friend to this blog, who linked me to this match last month, says, "Erik Shadows has an evil side sweeter than pecan pie. If the pecans are pre-soaked in arsenic." And the answer is yes, we do talk that way in the South - even faux Southerners like me and Dr. L.

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