X Marks the Spot

Renegade vs X-Terminator, Fight 29 (Black Wrestling Network)

The balls on Renegade to take on X-Terminator, the big bald (and hot!) giant known for turning his opponents into slaw! X is chiseled perfection, but he's not impenetrable. For every Goliath, there's a little David with the audacity to take the giant down. Renegade is thirsty for this match, with so much to gain. A win here would set him back up on a level to challenge arch-enemy Thrilla. Big and powerful as he is, it would be a mistake for X to lower his guard against this guy.

What BWN gets right (for me, anyway) is the focus on domination and pain, not moves, not shit talk, not even sex (good wrestling IS kind of sex as far as I'm concerned). X delivers unadulterated pain, not backflips or muscle poses. Cute stuff does nothing for me. Pain chills me to the bones (and boners). Renegade and X both instinctively understand the eroticism of agony. They play it out like Shakespeare and Aeschylus - for tragedy. These wrestlers wring each other out - break each other down - and the ordeal is lofty and sublime. Like lightning, like an earthquake, like a chain-reaction pileup on a freeway.

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