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Joey Nux vs Scrappy, Cowboys (Wrestler4Hire)

Nobody in wrestling looks more cowboy than Joey Nux. And even though there's not a whole lot to see here, the casting could not be better. Nux as the old hand and Scrappy as the greenhorn fit their roles like broken-in boots, and the pairing and the gear alone can inspire weeks of roundup fantasies. Rope is the right prop, too. And though I would have liked to see Scrappy put up SOME fight, Joey gives the muscly pony a right good whupping. 

If the 2019 battle inspires rematches, and I hope it does, I would like to see a campfire rasslin' challenge, a barroom fight, and maybe a showdown in a dusty, tumbleweed-infested ghost town for starters. Cowboy fights on TV colored a big part of my growing up years - Red River, The Searchers, and McClintock! to series like Have Gun Will Travel to the campy homoerotic stampede that was The Wild Wild West. (Let's not forget the tuxedoed boy dancers tussling with the redneck outlaws at the end of Blazing Saddles.)

I think the earlier Joey Nux versus Austin Cooper cowboy fight was probably better than this 2019 match, but as I recall, that post was no more a review or critique of the match than this one is. In it, I briefly reveled in my early teen years in Las Vegas - notably, a junior-high gym class and a gorgeous midnight cowboy at a 5-and-Dime. (Ah, the memories!) 

This match is good enough, I hasten to add, but couldn't Joey bust a table with Scrappy's back? or throw him through a window and out of a bar? The great thing about cowboy fights is the clutter of chairs, benches, pianos, flowerpots, banisters, horse-troughs, and frightened horses that get in the way, not to mention the possibility of sidekicks, deputies, and complete strangers jumping into the brawl.


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  1. "Cowboy fights on TV colored a big part of my growing up years..."

    According to Bruce Dern on the DVD, John Wayne told him that Wayne's fans would hate Dern for killing Wayne in "The Cowboys," to which Dern responded "Yeah, but they'll love me in Berkley," which made Wayne laugh.

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  2. Nice to see Scrappy abused by a real man and not another pretty Boi. Nothing wrong with pretty Bois mind you but it’s a great fantasy to rough one up and then make it up to him in a more friendly way!!

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