Seth Delay is a cute young
Indy stud who calls himself "DeLay Dee's Man." He wears a sweet spandex
arm band that matches his trunks, which is a pretty cool look.
Delay's bitter rival is Sal
Rinauro, a hunky, macho Italian super-star in the Indy wrestling world.
He sometimes wears shredded strips of cloth over his trunks that hang
down between his legs.
Delay and Rinauro hate each
other and usually try to injure each other when they meet in the ring, which
is every other week or so. Here is Delay in white gear trying to twist
Rinauro's arm out of the socket.
Although they hate each other,
these bitter rivals have climbed in the ring together dozens of times. In
fact, it almost seems like they'd rather wrestle each other than any body
else.
"Kid Kool" Seth Delay often
plays the ruthless, hard-ass tough guy believe it or not. Here he
is pinching Sal's neck between his boots, twisting his body around to crank
on some extra pressure.
Now Rinauro gets brutal himself,
driving an elbow into poor Seth's face, then trash-talking the fallen pretty-boy.
I'm not sure why, but these guys seem to enjoy hurting and humiliating
each other.
Actually these young high-flyers were once Tag Team partners
called "The Guys That Totally Rule." (Great name.) Check them out in their
matching purple gear. Like many former partners, their break-up was
more bitter and painful than when a pair of lovers separate.
Here is Sal Rinauro getting
brutal on his former friend. He grinds Seth's handsome face into the
corner buckles with the bottom of his boot. What happened between
these hot-shots that they now hate eachother with a passion?
Seth's young body is bent
into a scary, outrageous shape as Rinauro tries to snap him in two pieces.
I wonder if Seth is thinking about apologizing to his former bud and
repairing their friendship before somebody gets hurt!
Here is Sal in his black trunks
and later in his green trunks, holding up poor Seth Delay for a Suplex.
Sal likes to hold his victim upside down like that for several minutes
to cause the blood to rush to his head.
Seth and Sal once tried to
settle their differences in a very violent TLC (Tables, Ladders, and Chairs)
Match. The angry young warriors damn near killed each other.
After having
his face busted open, the hot-blooded Italian drives the metal ladder into
Seth's lower back. Poor Seth is in agony too now.
Rinauro rolls his cute enemy into an interesting pinning position.
I believe Seth kicked out, because the match actually ended with both
men out cold, one laying on top of the other.
You can watch clips of the wildest moments from this TLC match
by clicking below...
In yet another battle, Delay
suffers nicely as Rinauro tries to destroy him with a tight Headscissor.
In still another skirmish
between these bitter rivals, Seth uses a painful Scissors on Sal. He
even floats up onto his hands to show off his strength and apply extra pressure.
In the 60's and 70's, wrestlers
were mostly big tall and/or fat dudes. Then in the 80's and 90's, we
mostly saw huge ripped muscle-men in the ring. Now we're seeing a lot
of lean, fit, flexible, healthy, athletic young grapplers, which is a nice
change.
Again Rinauro pins poor Seth
Delay in a humiliating position, his head between Delay's thighs. If
I didn't know better, I'd say these guys don't really hate each other at
all!
Like most Guidos, Sal Rinauro
gets cocky when he's in control. I guess Seth must be on fire in this
match, because Sal is trying to stomp him out.
Sal finishes him off in that
same degrading Roll-Up Pin position. He seems to like doing this to
young Seth.
Probably the most degrading
attack between these bitter foes was when Seth knocked out Sal and cut off
his long hair. Wow, this means WAR! When will these two studs
ever settle this feud??
Looking lean and fit in his
purple gear, Seth is ready to destroy his enemy and end their on-going feud
once and for all.
As he climbs between the ropes,
we get a look at that graphic on the front of his trunks: silhouettes
of two naked women worshipping him. That's very cocky, he must be
playing the Heel tonight.
Seth often leaves his trunks
untied, letting the strings hang down the front slapping him on the nuts.
He better be careful or those trunks will end up down around his ankles
some time!
Now Sal Rinauro enters the
arena, still angry about having his gorgeous locks cut off. With all
that body oil, he gives new meaning to the term "Greasy Italian."
You can see that the oil has
poured down his stomach and totally soaked his spandex wrestling trunks.
Did he mean to do that, or did the cap fall off the bottle and the
oil spilled out too fast??
You can tell that Sal is very
pissed off and ready to tear into Seth Delay. If he was on the Sopranos,
somebody's body would be getting dumped into the East River about now.
(Memo to self: if you ever cut off some sleeping Italian
dude's long hair, RUN!)
The match
begins and the angry short-haired Italian quickly gains the upper hand,
his fiery rage giving him super-human strength.
Again Sal Rinauro (with his
trademark "Saved By the Sal" written on his ass) suspends poor Seth in one
of those Blood- Rushing-To- His- Head Suplexes.
How long can Sal hold up the
other man? How much blood flow can Seth's brain handle? How
much stretch can those purple trunks endure before they rip apart??
But with amazing cat-like agility,
Delay slides down, grabs Sal's neck, and falls onto his back to drive Rinauro's
chin into his knees!
Oh no, Rinauro is in trouble
now. Before he can recover from that Chin Breaker, Seth Delay is going
to kick the shit out of him.
Sure enough, Seth mounts his
former partner like a horsie and controls him with a handful of hair. Now
the brutality can begin.
Nice. Delay tries to
rip poor Sal's face off. Why are the cute guys always so darn ruthless??
By the way, these awesome
photos were taken by William Blake Arledge, one of the best wrestling photographers
there is. You can see more of his amazing work on his website: RingsidePhotos.net.
That last move really hurt
poor Sal Rinauro as he opens his mouth to howl in pain. Meanwhile
we can almost see down into his stomach and that Cannoli he had for lunch.
Why is Seth getting so brutal
on his helpless opponent? He must figure if he can injure Sal Rinauro
and put him out of Wrestling, then their long feud will finally be resolved.
Wow, check
out their passionate expressions as they continue their painful struggle.
It almost looks like this Chinlock hurts Seth as much as it does Sal.
Instead of just pinning the
man, Delay has to be a dick and also grind his forearm into Rinauro's eye.
That's pay-backs for all the times Rinauro held him upside down in
Suplex position and let the blood rush to his head.
The cruel pretty-boy slides
down his knee-pad so he can slam his bare knee cap into the helpless man's
face. Ouch, this is getting brutal as always when these hotties collide.
Finally Sal's rage gives him
the strength to fight back. He knocks Delay on his pretty purple ass
with a stunning Dropkick to the face.
But Rinauro's domination is
short-lived, as Delay replies with a flying Fore-Arm to the face, the draw
strings on his trunks flapping in the breeze. I wonder if Delay wears
that arm-band because he has a weapon hidden in there? Maybe a steel
plate?
Sal tries to catch his breath
outside the ring, but another wrestler, Chad Parham, tosses him back through
the ropes. Hey Parham, you stay out of this!!
Still wearing his shirt and
tie, Parham joins the fray. He helps out his Best Friend Forever,
Seth Delay, by stomping on Rinauro's neck with his street shoes.
Oh no, what the hell is Chad
Parham doing to poor Sal?? The bell is ringing furiously as Parham
sets up a deadly Jumping Pile-Driver!
CRUNCH!
Rinauro cringes as all of his weight and all of Parham's weight drive
his neck into the mat. This is vicious, why is Parham getting involved
in the feud?
Oh please, not again! Now
Parham sets up a Cradle Pile Driver on the Italian Meatball. His spine
can't handle this much punishment!
The advantage of the Crade
Pile-Driver is that, with your arm hooked between the man's legs, you can
apply even more downward force as you slam his skull into the ground. This
is a very brutal Pile-Driver variation!
Damn, a THIRD Pile Driver!
A SPIKE PILE DRIVER off the ropes!! This time Delay helps
out by pushing down on Rinauro's ankles, so now the weight of three men will
crash down on his vertebrae. They truly must want to injure the man.
After that ridiculous 3-Pile-Driver assault, poor Sal Rinauro
lies broken and injured in the ring. The officials rush to his aid
and grope his exhausted body. He'll have to be carried out on a stretcher,
degraded and destroyed by Delay yet again! Will he now seek revenge
on Seth Delay and continue this vicious war? (Let's hope so...)
