Cash on the Line

Cash vs Gunnar (Bro Battle/Wrestler4Hire)

Over the weekend Cameron at Wrestler4Hire unveiled a new wrestling site, Bro Battle, premised on the idea that bodybuilders in skimpy gear horsing around in a well-appointed frat house are money in the bank. Certainly the formula has worked at Thunder's Arena for years. A number of Arena alums - Scrappy, Gunnar, Tristan Baldwin - are on hand to launch the W4H satellite. What piqued my curiosity was a hairy-chested, classically handsome beast called Cash, another Arena wrestler.

Always a sucker for hunks at war, I got cozy on the couch to spend 20 minutes watching Cash take on five-eight, 190-pound Gunnar. In addition to having "a carapace of steely muscle," as I once said of him, Gunnar has a personality I'm drawn to - sharp, laidback, unpretentious. The craggy bodybuilder greets Cash by spraying him with oil - "You know you got to oil it up" - and insists on checking out whether Cash's pushup form is what it should be. Then he uses the old arm-wrestling ruse to lower Cash's defenses and trap him in a headlock. After that, Gunnar and Cash battle at the edge of a swimming pool and eventually dunk each other into the pool, where the battle continues. 

Cash is a regular guy but above average in looks and build. He doesn't appear to have a lot of attitude, yet he gives Gunnar a better, bigger fight than Gunnar probably expected. I'm less attracted to him than in awe of him. He's a man, a man's man even, not a chaser of everlasting boyhood. His is a calm masculinity that makes me feel as fluttery as Sandy Dennis. If he were my trainer, I'd stick with the program to the end just in hopes that he'll strip off his T-shirt and put me in a side headlock.

 

The battle climaxes with a decisive (and sexy) rear naked choke, the two bros fighting amid pool noodles and beach balls - ahem, "Calling Dr. Freud." Right now, Bro Battle may be ersatz Thunder's Arena, but with wrestlers like Gunnar and Cash, the new offshoot promotion may put its own stamp on the frat-house angle. The company has launched with six battles, and I have it on good authority that more are soon to come, with Cash taking on Scrappy and Joey Nux in the future.