Wildcard

Buck Carter vs Toney Rico, Big-N-Beefy 7 (BG East)

Tastes in men change. I still have GQ magazines from the '70s and '80s I used to whack off to nightly. Some of the old photos could probably still do the trick, but these days I look for heftier, furrier, and meaner-looking hombres. I have always been fickle, but I detect changes over decades, observable more in the body of accumulated data than in specific examples, a little like climate change. You dangle a go-go boy in front of me and I'll bite, but he better have meat on his bones and a knack for rasslin'.

Buck "Wildcard" Carter is not the sort of "new face in wrestling" BG East has presented in the past. He's burly, hot-tempered, mannish. Nobody I know would call him a boy. He certainly wouldn't call himself a boy. The same can be said for his opponent, Toney Rico, who has been around BGE for a while, taking on at least one bona fide bad-ass in Kelly King, though often pitted against the usual boy wonders, some better than others, some even showing promise as tough guys, but unmistakably boyish in appearance. Of Carter and Rico, the catalog description rightly says, "Body slams for these guys are seismic events." Neither weighs in under 200 pounds.

When these two men square off, it's not playtime; it's an event. I imagine there are different, more pungent pheromones in the air. In another age, the room would be full of cigar smoke and whisky breath, also. Carter has wrestling in his blood. He enjoys roughing Rico up, and he doesn't give a shit about the rules.When his unnecessary roughness elicits a feisty response from his opponent, he smiles approvingly, saying, "That's what I like to see: a big guy with some fight." Me too, Wildcard. The holds, moves, and strategies are strictly old-school - not at all unusual for BGE: armbars, body slams, scissor holds, and figure-fours. Red-meat sort of maneuvers.

He's no GQ model, but in Big-N-Beefy 7, Buck Carter makes a definite impression. I'm not altogether sold on him yet, but I'll be interested to see where he goes from here. If I were king for a day at BG East, I'd book Carter next against other big guys of varying masculine styles like Zip Zarella, Brute Baynard, and, of course, Kelly King, who is most nearly a perfect physical match for Wildcard. 

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