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Brad and Ronnie doing their crunches in the middle of the ring, one of them wonders aloud who has the hardest abs. They exchange punches, a friendly test of endurance, at first. Seconds later, the competition turns noticeably mean. Brad backs Ronnie into a corner and drives his shoulder to the midsection multiple times. Then he's plying the guy with karate chops. Ronnie pushes back, with a boot to Brad's gut. There's no turning back now. They're engaged in a full-fledged fight in less than four minutes.

What makes the ride fun for me is, first and foremost, the hotness of these two bodies, smooth as shop-window mannequins, manscaping worthy of a 1960s sword-and-sandal star.  I'm disappointed that in the course of 21 minutes neither breaks into a sweat, but the good news is that the iron claw gets applied on more than one occasion. The patent fakery of the claw hold is not a point in the match's favor, but it is a pro-wrestling tradition, one of the sexier ones. I get it, and I approve. Plus, Ronnie pulls hair, and, well, there you are. I prefer edgier roughness, which both these men have proved themselves capable of - Brad most recently in his degenerate destruction of Christian Thorn, right here at Wrestler4Hire, Ronnie, in an old-school grunt-n-groaner versus Ace Owens, also W4H. By comparison, this match is breezy.

Give and take persists to the final minute, in which the winner makes a clear distinction between himself and the broken victim under his foot. The 2018 match's tone is cavalier on the whole. That makes for a lighter fight up until the more vitriolic figure-four chokes that lead to the battle's final minutes. These are well worth waiting for - just next time, guys, messier and sweatier, please.


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