It’s Shirtless Saturday and we have a strongman ripping his shirt off…
Ralph Ber also rips his shirt off from that YouTube page.
That bulky behemoth is Austrian strongman, Hubert Dörer. The photos I found of him (mostly from his Official Site) were pretty small so I’ve decided to make a collage out of them. I know, I know. It’s pretty gay…
It always amazes me to see one's transformation from one's slimmer years to one's thicker years...
I grew up with these bearish behemoths -- in more ways than one...
Koobert from Bears In Games have a threesome of great videos about bearish men in sports-themed video games (check out Bears In Games’ YouTube Page). The one I’d like to highlight today is Legends Of Wrestlemania.
It’s pretty cool that even when Koobert designed a very obvious gay-looking character, his online opponents would not harass him nor negatively criticize the flamboyant look of his wrestler. I found that interesting as pro-wrestling fans tend to get an image of being extremely homophobic. Unfortunately, we find our homobphobic brethren in video games like Halo. I actually watched my co-worker’s 14-year-old son spew insults like “Fucking fag that is so fucking gay you’re gonna get it fucked up in your fucking fag gay ass” in Halo 3. Ah, to be 14…
Pro-wrestling, especially WWF in the ’80s and ’90s, was my source of a “different type” of entertainment. It was a world where half-naked burly men role-played a character, as they sweated and wrestled away. I had a personal attraction towards wrestlers who were cocky, arrogant, and just plain villainous (check out my Sonny Roselli post). If you looked at the wrestling roster on the above image, I only have about three “good guys” (or “faces”). But then again, they were also at one point villains prior to WWF. I guess I just love “bad bears” (I was so angry when I rented The Bad News Bears in Betamax). Anyway, I feel that today’s pro-wrestling do not have the same mystique that these bearish wrestlers provided back in the day. There was a rawness and realness to the theatrics that they used to entertain us. It’s probably still out there since I viewed pro-wrestling a bit differently as a child, teenager, and heck, as an adult in my early 20′s.
Anyway, if you like these bearish pro-wrestlers, SDW Media is the source for all classic pro-wrestling videos (you can read more on my write-up about that company here).
Finally, let me end with an Arn Anderson entrance video from Legends Of Wrestlemania as well as a high-res image of Big John Studd. Yes, if you look at the collage again, they are my top two professional wrestlers of all-time.
Denmark’s Kim Bodnia is up there as one of my favorite bearish actors. I first discovered him back in 2002 when I was browsing through the foreign DVD section of a Tower Records WOW Superstore. (You can relive that same story of my mine from my first Kim Bodnia post I did a year ago.)
The very first DVD I found was Gamle mænd i nye biler (Old Men In New Cars). My eyes immediately honed in on the husky bearded photoshopped head in the middle of the photo.
I grabbed it right away and I want you guys to figure out where I stopped reading the DVD’s back cover and immediately made an impulse buy:
In a style that makes Hollywood action movies tame by comparison, this hyperventillating comedy/action flick combines breathtaking action sequences with unsettling black humor, unrepentant misogyny, and plenty of super-violence. When the beefy thug and hardened criminal Harald is released from prison, he quickly “enlists” his two former henchmen Peter and Martin into his new gang. Before he resumes his criminal ways, his dying surrogate father asks him to find his biological son, not seen since a bay. But that baby is now in a maximum security prison and a far-from-cured serial killer. With his posse in place, Harald is ready for that crime spree he’s been dreaming of. Bodies begin to pile up; but when one bank robbery ends with them holding hostage a feisty, suicidal young woman, things go from bad to worse for our lovable villains. Breating new life into the gangster genre, Old Men In New Cars is an exhilarating delight.
That’s right. “Beefy thug” got me. It was a gamble as the beefy thug might be a reference to someone else and not that actual beefy hunk on the front cover. You kids today and your iPhones, you could have accessed IMDb and checked out who “Harald” was to verify that the guy on the cover was indeed Kim Bodnia, aka “beefy thug.” Anyway, that then led me to exploring most of his movies and I have been a fan ever since.
Here are some screenshots of Mr. Bodnia’s shirtless scene in Old Men In New Cars.
As always, please check out the bearmythology Flickr Photostream for more screenshots.
This is the first 4 minutes of the film
This is the ending of the film and I love it because there’s something
about seeing a big guy cry…
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Christian Cantwell wins the gold medal during the 12th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany. My personal favorite, Reese Hoffa, did not do to well during the competition, but it’s great to see Mr. Cantwell getting the gold.
Thank you to HBL01 for pointing this video out to us.
Adam Nelson, Reese Hoffa, Ralf Bartels, Christian Cantwell, mmm, mmm, mmm…
And what happens when you win the gold? You flex your muscles, of course. Here are some gorgeous photos of Christian in all of his arm flexing glory…
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My good buddy, D.T., has a very awesome treat for us and it’s a 2-for-1 special. It’s a shirtless scene between Artie Lange and John Scurti from an episode of Season 4 of Rescue Me. (If anyone knows which episode this is from — paging Mr. D.T. — please let us know.)
I have been waiting for John Scurti to get fully shirtless and, of course, it happens on a season where I stopped watching it. He did get shirtless before but not like this. And, as a bonus to boot, we get Artie Lange shirtless and also doing the wild thing.
I have other bears to post about from Rescue Me (specifically about someone’s uncle), but a previous post I made about the show was about Lyndon Byers. In the meantime, enjoy these screenshots of two woofy chubby bears…
And as an even more added bonus, D.T. uploaded this awesome short video clip. It’s very short, but unbelievably way too hot…
Another kind reader, Gringo, submitted the following photos of a spectacular black musclebear. He was wondering if I had any info on him. Sadly, I do not. Gringo did add that our mystery chocolate confection used to have a bigmusclebears account under the nickname “urban legend” (real name is “mariolino”); unfortunately, that account doesn’t exist anymore. So for all of you bear sleuths out there, please help us identify this dreamy hunk.
SANTA MARIA, MADRE DE DIOS!!!!!
You guys are probably sick and tired of me about talking about Tumblr. However, I just want many of you to join as it’s definitely a great place to pool our resources when it comes to finding bears, chubs, daddies, and brutes. To start you off, these guys are the best (and they’re in alphabetical order). As this is the world of Tumblr, treat them as being NSFW.
And, of course, my two Tumblr pages:
We definitely need to make our furry, chubby, brawny presence known. We love big men and we cannot lie. So unleash your 14-year-old girl (and if you are already a female, just unleash your giddy adolescent self) and start your own Tumblr blog. I must admit that I am not as “savvy” and “quick” like those other folks I have listed. However, I am indeed old and that is a very valid excuse. ^_^
The following are just an awesome sampling of all the great photos you will find from those fine Tumblr-folk (Tumblerettes? Tumblerdudes?)
These eyes ... are cryin'. These eyes have seen a lot of loves but they’re never gonna see another one like I had with you
A kind reader, Matthew, has pointed me out to a film from Uruguay called Gigante. Not only that, he also attached these high-res photos of its handsome lead actor: Horacio Carmandule. Thank you, sir! IMDb’s plot synposis reads as follow:
A chronicle of a supermarket security guard’s obsession with a late-shift janitor.
Before you gay guys get all excited, it’s a female late-shift janitor. Why must all these woofy men fall for chicks? No offense, ladies. -_^
Anyway, it appears to be a film that I would enjoy (re: my Pruitt Taylor Vince’s Heavy love). I always find stories of aching lusts/love toward people they are unable to show affections towards to extremely fascinating.
I mean, hey, just look at this blog where I tend to mostly post about straight men! 
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Thankfully, according to Matthew, the film did not explore the “creepy” aspect of obsession, but, rather, the loving side of it. More about the fascination side of it, from what I’m understanding.
Here is a trailer from YouTube (love the punk version of “Everybody Needs Somebody” that plays halfway through):
Shirtless scenes to boot? Hells, yeah!
I first noticed Pruitt Taylor Vince when I rented Heavy back in the mid-’90s. I remember having an AOL account and I created a whole webpage dedicated to my analysis of that film. I also remember constantly refreshing my page hoping to see my stat counter explode with visitors, but, alas, I made 327 visits to it (out of 330 total). I wanted the world to know just how awesome the movie was.
Whoever made this cover totally missed the whole point of the movie
I remember linking it to the Bears Mailing List and I ended up forcing my film analysis on to an unsuspecting Mr. Les K. Wright (editor of The Bear Book 1 & 2 and founder of The Bear History Project). I was still new to the world of “bears” and Mr. Wright was very patient with my billions of questions and overeagerness. He was very kind to my pompous film analysis of Heavy. (If I could find it, I’d repost it here.) But my love for that film pretty much equaled my intense attraction toward its chubby lead actor.
Anyway, all that rambling just so we could segue in to today’s Shirtless Saturday model: Pruitt Taylor Vince. I remember giggling like a giddy little girl when I finally saw him shirtless in Captivity. Thanks to Tumblr’s moviechubs, he made me aware that just a decade and four years ago, PTV already got shirtless. I still couldn’t believe that I missed it.
Mr. Vince, oh wow, that is very, wow, oh my!
I think it's time to take it to the next level...
Jimmy, is this blondie a swimmer? She's been down for a whole twenty minutes!
Please check out more screenshots at the bearmythology Flickr Photostream. And check out Chubarama for more PTV coverage.
And here are also some screenshots from Captivity.
Please correct me as I'm not really sure if this musclebear is Japanese or Korean...
I found this wallpaper background from this Korean website:
http://club.ivancity.com/community/club/bearpics/
I really want to join it as it seems to be a picture-sharing club. I’m able to translate it via Google, but I have no clue as to how to join. Any Korean-speaking bear lovers out there? Halp!
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