Using a powerful Headscissor, Prince Iaukea shows remarkable flexibility, capturing his victim between his thick thighs and crushing the poor guy’s neck. The similarities between the two matches reveal the unchanging script of the Fat Man Offense - for example, both Fat Men driving their boots into their victims’ bodies to crush them. If you want to see more photos of the Fat Man in purple, whose nickname “Playboy” is so very ironic, you can view the gallery from the Chaotic Wrestling indy show. If you want to watch the 1966 match featuring Prince Iaukea stomping his pretty little victim into pudding, check out the match on YouTube. Anybody who has fought City Hall, been foreclosed upon by the heartless bankers, or been held down by The Man can certainly empathize with the Regular Guy getting his ribs flattened in the ring by the Fat Man Offense. The victim is a Regular Guy because he represents us, the dudes in the audience, often feeling crushed by the greedy, oppressive corporate and governmental powers that rule our lives. They work out to stay fit, keep their hair well groomed, and spend good money on gorgeous wrestling clothes, but all of this preparation and preening is for naught, because the Fat Man will crush them like a bug anyway.
They’re lean, muscular, well-dressed, and lovable. The victims of the Fat Man offense are usually pure eye-candy for the fans, the ideal athlete. In the modern match, Playboy Jessie James is the flabby Fat Man in purple trunks. The black and white match from 1966 features Prince Iaukea as a massive Hawaiian boulder. This gimmick hasn’t changed much in the past 45 years or so, which you can see from these two matches - one in black and white from 1966 compared with some photos taken at an indy show last month. The cruel crushing weight of the Fat Man Offense is what makes this gimmick a turn-on.
It creates a sense of frustration and injustice in the minds of the audience, to see their buff young heroes utterly helpless and ineffective against the Fat Man’s protective layers of flesh, to see that ponderous weight used to smother the heroic wrestler. It usually means extreme pain for the skinnier wrestler because the point of the match is to feature the unbeatable power of body mass - the Fat Man as the unstoppable force. The “Fat Man Offense” is a classic wrestling gimmick where an average dude is utterly crushed by a massive, beefy, gluttonous mountain of a man.