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Chase Addams vs Drake Marcos, Wrestler Spotlight: Chase Addams (BG East)

I can't comment on the first two matches of this Spotlight, having not watched them, but I will say the last is a satisfying and sadistic pulverizing of Drake Marcos. True, Marcos mounts a valorous offense when he's allowed to, but Chase Addams isn't prone to sharing his spotlight with the winsome BGE darling, as is clear from the beginning.

The two enter the mat room, pushing and shoving, Drake contending, "I beat your little friend earlier." Presumably he refers to Ty Alexander, Chase's blind-date partner in 2016's Tag Team Torture 19. Chase was pretty quick to cut Ty loose after they lost that match and kicked the self-proclaimed Trophy Boy's ass forthwith. Chase tells Drake, "He's not my friend."

Drake's aggressiveness - taking Chase down to the mat within seconds - is not altogether a surprise, of course. The guy likes to fight, one reason the fans love him. He wants to make short work of Chase to humiliate him on camera the way he did Ty in 2014's erotic blitzkrieg Babyface Brawl X. He presses his crotch to Chase's face, exclaiming, "Ah, this brings back memories!"

These dudes are really  wrestling. There's nothing scripted here. The rumpus is far too messy to be choreography, and they both look serious as cancer about beating each other up. Also, Chase's panicky moans are nothing if not sincere. When Drake succeeds in making Chase tap out, about nine minutes in, he can't just leave it alone, but insists on rubbing Addams' nose into the mat.

In hindsight, that gratuitous insult is obviously Drake's undoing. In effect, it gives Chase permission to pull out the stops thereafter, beginning with a sweaty headlock and fish-hooking of the nostrils that points Marcos's mortified piggy-face to the camera (and not for one time only). This is just the first of many debasements, which come to a boil as the action shifts to the squared circle.

I like to think the old carny-tent days of pro wrestling inspired this two-parter. A few years ago I read a history of wrestling that said that in the old days the wrestlers would have a real match before the crowd showed up. The real match then served as a model and outline for the showtime match, with added theatrical touches and more grandiose punishments to jazz up the performance.

I've commented before how excellently (and disturbingly) Drake suffers, and Chase shows no concern about the guy's well-being, especially after the hell Marcos had just put Addams through. The final twenty minutes are raw and enervating, baldly and unapologetically punitive, deliciously so for me, sick fuck that I am. Chase holds nothing back, and not for a second do I suspect that the hurt and humiliation are anything less than what they seem to be. Both wrestlers are 100 percent committed to the scene. It's a quite awesome performance or, rather, execution


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