Friday, January 29, 2016

Five Years Ago This Month : Beefcakes (Part 2)

Here are 15 more wrestlers who were featured on Beefcakes of Wrestling back in January 2015. Tell us which one is your favorite.
Johnny Armani

Johnny Moss

Justin Gabriel (aka PJ Black/Justin Gabriel)

Latin Lover

Johnny Prime aka Lucky Cannon

Mason Ryan aka Barri Griffiths

Mike Bennett

Mike Hutter aka Derrick Bateman aka Ethan Carter III

Rampage Brown as Monty Lynch in his WWE/FCW days

Randy Orton

Robbie E aka Rob Eckos

Shawn Daivari

Simon Falcon (formerly identified on this blog as Simon Grenier)

Tyler Black aka Seth Rollins

Unidentified

BONUS PIC : Mike Bennett smolders.

21 comments:

  1. I can never decide on Bennett. Sometimes he's a yes, sometimes a maybe, and sometimes a big no.

    Latin Lover has his moments in those otherwise awful (for my shallow self, I know they have their fans) Mexican promotions.

    Daivari has since switched to trunks and grew out his hair and looks much better for it.

    I like Ryan with short hair but he's a little too big for me.

    I liked Lucky Cannon when he was Johnny Prime in FCW with short hair and trunks but not since WWE.

    I probably would have picked Randy Orton if asked a decade ago but...

    I'm going to have to go with Ethan Carter as my favorite at the moment. He's only gotten better since that picture was posted.

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    1. Agree on Bennett, have always liked him, but he let's his look vary so much, esp. hair and paunch. I don't think Daivari has changed his look, you may be confusing him with his brother, Ariya Daivari?

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    2. Is John Emminger, aka Johnny Prime/Lucky Cannon still wrestling? I thought he was let go by FSW and left wrestling.

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    3. Ah yes, I confused him with his brother Ariya (henceforth "the hotter one").

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    4. Agree, absolutely.

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  2. Haha, totally agree with you on Bennett too JM. It's been fun seeing how much we agree. That last pic of Bennett really is smoldering though. That's what I want to see when I wake up in bed every day!

    There really are a lot of hot guys in this post. Too many for me to list out individually. All I'll say is I'm surprised at Brown looking so lean and shaved. Never heard of Latin Lover but he has my attention. Moss is another guy who makes bald head work so successfully. Armani gets my attention too. And lots of others (including pretty much all JM mentioned!)

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    1. Yeah, that last picture is definitely one of Bennett's "yes" moments. And Anon really put his finger on the problem, which is that Bennett allows his look to vary too much.

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    2. Do you have any recommendations of good matches of Bennett? I definitely agree with the looks varying and am really sad he's full-on tights now. Seems many in TNA like Davey Richards are away from trunks sadly. But another problem I have with Bennett is just bad luck with finding good matches. Too far away or just not exciting. I know he did ROH for awhile which are supposed to be more exciting. Anyhow, I would love a recommendation of a good hot Bennett match

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    3. Not really. I haven't paid attention to him since his ROH days and with the exception of Roderick Strong I wasn't really big on the people they had him wrestling there.

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  3. I am fairly sure that your "Simon Grenier" is the fellow I recommended weeks ago, Simon Falcon, who is pictured here in the same trunks:
    http://cdlutte.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/sf.jpg

    I don't find any images (via Google) of a Simon Grenier.

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    1. You're right. I must have misidentified him way back in 2011. I've made the necessary correction and will identify him from hereon as Simon Falcon. Thanks for calling my attention to this.

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    2. When you think of wrestlers from Quebec it is hard not to have Sylvan/Sylvain Grenier on your mind.

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  4. I used to be very fond of Johnny Armani (the Fashion Tsunami!) who often appeared with a wrestler named "London Vice," also not to be sneezed at. Unfortunately, over the last couple of years he's grown his hair long and now looks a bit slovenly.

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  5. I didn't notice Simon Falcon (or Grenier or whatever) the first time around as much, but that link you sent of him is hot Anon! Tatts have not intruded on his looks yet and he fills out those boxer brief trunks just nicely. Wow, instant hardon here.

    It's definitely sad when wrestlers (or anyone for that matter) decrease in hotness over time but especially from bad character choice

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    1. At least I've made one convert. Simon Falcon (real name Simon Lacasse) has been doing bodybuilding contests, and the most recent match against Alex North, easy to find on Youtube, it is there twice, has a hot ending.

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    2. His hotness would increase exponentially if he switched to trunks (like another Grenier I know).

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    3. Those trunks are pretty brief as they are, and they ride up ...

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  6. Lawd, the ABs on Hutter/Batemsn/Carter! You could grate Parmesan on them!

    And there's something about Black/Rollins that makes my heart race...

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  7. Now Johnny Moss is one who has increased his hotness quotient. He used to wrestle in a singlet, and then managed to lose some fat, resurrect his abs, and switch to brief trunks. Amazing improvement. He now runs his own wrestling school in the UK, but still wrestles.

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  8. Yeah Moss looks great in this pic. Never knew him from before but I take your word for it! Yes EC3 and Rollins look great, especially in those photos!

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  9. Tyler Black. Johnny Armani looks hor here. I'll have to look up some more recent Images

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