Hence, for Danner and other up-and-coming wrestlers, the appeal of appearing in a BG East film is fairly obvious. Who knows?”īut despite his growing popularity and ascendant brand, Danner still only earns about $100 dollars each time he enters the squared circle. “So, I could be a day away or I could be a year away. “It’s kind of one of those right place, right time, who you know situations,” he said. Even though he’s sure that he’s ready skill- and persona-wise, it’s impossible to measure how close he is to grasping the brass ring. He requested that he not be identified by that name in this article.) He’s wrestled all over the United States, and his dream, he said, is to eventually make it to the bright lights and jam-packed arenas of the WWE. (To clarify: Danner goes by a different name when wrestling outside of BG East. We consider ourselves a sort of fraternity.”ĭolph Danner hails from Staten Island and has been working professionally for the past nine years, mainly with an independent outfit. “We bring in wrestlers from all over,” Driscoll wrote. Though Driscoll no longer manages the outfit’s day-to-day operations, he said that over the last two decades it’s grown exponentially, such that BG East currently boasts “over 100 active wrestlers on our roster” filming at studios in Boston and Fort Lauderdale, and shooting multiple matches over the course of a day or week. Driscoll also wrestled for the site, under the name “ Kid Leopard.” Video production started shortly thereafter, but after 10 years, Driscoll struck out on his own, operating the catalogue as a “one-man show,” he said via email, before landing online in the 1990s.
It began to evolve when George met Stephen Driscoll, a photographer who suggested adding images to punch up the literature.
As for the style of grappling contained therein, while the moves and submission holds are more or less indistinguishable from the pro style, there’s a heavy emphasis on humiliation, domination, and taunting, punctuated with insults and slowed-down, long-lasting submission holds.īG East was founded in 1979 by Bill George as “BG Wrestling,” a hand-printed black-and-white zine of wrestling fan-fiction submitted by both amateurs and quasi-professional writers in exchange for a nominal fee. Of course, if you want to purchase X-rated wrestling material, BG East carries that as well, and their matches have been illegally uploaded to PornHub and various bit torrenting sites.
As BG East’s History and Principles page blares, the eroticism to be found here is in the sport: “These and our many hot new series are based, first and foremost, on a love of WRESTLING!” There’s a membership option available called The Arena, which grants discounts and otherwise unavailable access to “1000 Pay-per-view Video-on-Demand matches, including EXCLUSIVE match content and HOLDS clips, with 5 added each week.”Īnd while the visuals are framed in such a manner that clearly pegs them as soft-core pornography-with a heavy filmic emphasis on the participants’ groins and buttocks-for the most part, they do not contain explicit nudity or sexual acts. “So whether it’s for BG East or it’s for World Wrestling Entertainment, it’s going to happen.”įor the uninitiated, BG East Wrestling is an online marketplace for DVDs, streaming video-on-demand, and downloadable clips of wrestling matches that are intended to titillate and arouse the viewer. We’re good-looking guys who are in shape, who wear tiny little trunks and roll around with other good-looking guys who are in shape, covered in baby oil.
“It’s gonna happen either way as a professional wrestler. Here’s my thing and this is why, like, it’s not a big deal to me,” professional wrestler Dolph Danner said over the phone, discussing the erotic gay wrestling matches he’s appeared in and how he deals with being viewed as a sex object.