Lita/Trish and Jimmy Jacobs/THE WORLD

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Why are there so few Trish Stratus/Lita femslash MVs on Youtube, huh?! I mean, are people blind? Wrestling must not have much of a fannish lesbian following, because I'd think Lita/Trish was tailor-made for femslashers into rival-shipping. See what I mean?

On a somewhat related note, retroginger and I were talking about this clip of Jon Moxley (aka WWE's Dean Ambrose) backing nemesis Jimmy Jacobs into a corner of the ring and kissing the fuck out of him. For those not familiar with wrasslin, think Sexy Psycho on Emo Jerkass Slashbait action. retroginger pointed out that you could make a flowchart of how many wrestlers have had their mouths on Jimmy Jacobs by this point. That brings me to one of my favorite little feuds in indie wrestling: Jimmy Jacobs vs. Adam Cole and now, in my opinion, its sort of fascinating, slashbait-y, and almost progressive, all at once.

Adam Cole and Jimmy Jacobs first encountered each other in EVOLVE, where Jimmy played the seasoned veteran openly contemptuous of newbie Adam. After Adam finally scored a defeat on Johnny Gargano, Jimmy made his way to the ring, got on a mic, and declared that Adam was hot (no lies detected) and came onto him. Adam, naturally, challenged him to a wrestling match. Their rivalry continued into early this year, including such notable moments as Jimmy propositioning Adam for sex on Twitter, and Jimmy open-mouthed kissing Adam during their match at ROH Hunt for Gold earlier this year. What I love about this, aside from the obvious fact that Jimmy and Adam are sexy and its entertaining to watch them have aggressive sexual tension, is that the rivalry's not so much about Jimmy being GAY (he's not, or at least his character's not; see below) but more about Jimmy being EVIL, and thusly Adam wanting no part of him. Other than the announcers joking about Jimmy not being "the first man to kiss Adam Cole", there's not much fuss over them being both male. You could replace either Jimmy or Adam with a female wrestler (or hell, two female wrestlers, ie Mickie James and Trish) and have pretty much the same story. There's some fun character development as well, as we see a return to Jimmy's stalker with a crush side we haven't seen much of since he was lovesick over his female manager, Lacey, c. 2006. It seems Jimmy has a thing for gorgeous dark-haired wrestlers!

Comments

[retroginger.livejournal.com]

You've made me realize how much I've been neglecting indie wrestling and Jimmy Jacob matches especially:( I haven't seen any of the Jacobs-Cole feud beyond a little bit in Evolve and what I've read from Jimmy's twitter. Dean Ambrose is too distracting;) Who is Jimmy feuding with in ROH now? I wish he would come back to DGUSA and Evolve. I enjoyed his previous feud with Gargano.