Looking to wrestle and box guys in Miami or surrounding areas. Lv2wrestle@aol.com

Last week was a busy one here at AllFighters HQ! Please read on and comment.

First, we finished relocating to a new data center. AllFighters is now hosted in London, and is hopefully faster, has better network connection and will have fewer outages than before. This is made possible by a few donations we've received in the past months. Thanks everyone.

The move went pretty smoothly, but like all big changes, there were, and probably still are, some issues. I am fixing them as soon as I'm aware of them, so please, if you encounter a site error, drop me a note!

Second, there's a new feature that notifies members of certain things, such as favorites logging in or somebody inviting you to Chat. Personally, I hate popup windows that appear on some sites, so I chose a relative visible but unobtrusive floating panel with a red dashed border.

Finally, I'd like to ask for your input regarding another site matter. As you (probably) know, AllFighters has a very simply worded Terms of Service. It's much less legalese than the Terms of Service on most other sites, and for the most part, it simply says "don't be an ass". One particular term, however, forbids uploading of X-rated photos. There are a couple of reasons for that:

• First it's a legal matter: there are some very unpleasant local laws that adult websites must comply to.
• There are enough dating sites on the net for naked pictures, and there is no need for AllFighters to become one of them.
• Trying to be friendly to members who are don't want sex , or are straight.

The reason why this part of the Terms of Service is problematic is that it is the least intuitive one. Probably some guys are out there thinking, "Well well, nobody has uploaded a photo of their dicks to this site yet! Time I fixed that". Or they aren't, but anyways, about one in every 20 or so new photos is explicit enough to be flagged by multiple members. (Big thanks for those who patrol the photo uploads so I don't have to!!) Once a photo is flagged by enough members, I click a button that makes the photo private and sends a carefully worded warning to the photo's uploader.

Simple, right?

For the most part it is. Usually, when someone receives this warning (and again, it is just a simple warning stating that the photo is naked, explicit or whatever), they just delete the photo and go on with their lives. Sometimes I get a small apology, or even some expression of appreciation for my work on this site. (I like those.) However, about one in every ten, goes into something I call "entitled, angry white thrash mode", explaining to me how they are right and everyone else (especially me) is wrong, and they will tell everyone not to use this site as it clearly sucks, and they will destroy everything I ever held dear (OK, that last part I made up).

My question to you is simple: how would you deal with them?

– Admin out.

Dear members,

Today I am closing one of the long-standing items from the Suggestion Box: the distinction between members who have had cyber/phone matches and members who had real-life matches. This was one of the highest-rated requests in the box, and finally it's implemented.

According to the original request:

I think there is a need to distinguish between real and cyber in the Past Opponents feature. I had originally presumed that this would only be applicable to real opponents, but I had encountered some guys who had verified others as past opponents on the grounds that they had done cyber with them. I would like to be able to distinguish who had wrestled who for real. Thanks.

So what does this mean? It means that there is an extra category on a profile, right next to "Favorites" and "Past opponents": "Past cyber/phone opponents". I also made a best-effort attempt to reclassify some previous "past opponents" to "cyber past opponents". The way I did it was with an automated algorithm that mined multiple sources of data:

• The Chat for the past few days (i.e. asking for cyber on #allfighters, or visiting the #cyber room on numerous occasions).
• Certain information from profiles, such as "Not interested in cyber wrestling" or "Not looking for live meetings".
• If the member has "cyber" in his name.
• Most importantly, the network effect: past opponents of non-cyber profiles are less likely to be cyber profiles. In the end, AllFighters is a social network site, which is why this information weighed most.

At the end of the day, 350 of 5166 (7%) or all links were reclassified to "cyber", and less than 50 members had more than 2 links affected.

Both false positives and false negatives are easily possible, which is why I need you to check your links. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Thank you!

Move to a New Data Center

Soon (possibly this week), allfighters will be moving to a new datacenter, hopefully this will help us have a higher uptime, faster connection and better service. The move will make some future enhancements possible, the most interesting of which might be a video-enabled version of Chat. (This is not a promise for video chat, though. It might not be feasible in the end.)

However, the better hosting comes at a modest price. As you know, AllFighters membership is free, and there are no product tie-ins or advertisements on the webpage to offset operation costs. Please, if you can spare a little, donate to AllFighters!

Regards,

– Admin out.

Hi,

Just to let guys here know I have uploaded 800+ new wrestling photos and gay artwork to our own wrestling club website. If your a big pointed fan of nipple action you'll like some of the drawings!

I have a few hundred more male-erotic drawings to upload and will try and do these over the coming days. I have aslso quite a few photos to upload to the pro-wrestler and the bloody wrestler photo folders.

Please feel free to upload any of YOUR favourite wrestling photos or photos of yourself to the SPEEDO-WRESTLERS website.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedo-wrestlers/

Just to remind everyone that this coming week, beginning 22nd Feb 2010, we have 3 sessions of organised group wrestling. This includes our regular weekly coaching and wrestling session. Good for new guys and experienced guys who want to improve on their wrestling skillset of holds and moves. We also have two monthly wrestling sessions. One aimed at younger guys under 35 and including guys also under 175lbs in weight.

TUES 23rd 7 till 9PM ..... £5 (weekly) WEEKLY COACHING & WRESTLING SESSION This is our regular weekly club session. We will be coaching some counter moves to material we have covered over the last few weeks. Don't worry if you have missed previous sessions as you will easily be able to absorb the material.

SAT 27th 12 till 3PM ..... £10 (monthly) UNDER 35'S AND/OR UNDER 175lbs BODYWEIGHT COACHING & WRESTLING SESSION This session is for the younger guys and/or the lighter guys! If you fit EITHER of these conditions then you should come along. If you are under 35 and over 175lbs then come and if you are over 40 but under 175lbs then come! We have a few in-shape guys who have said that they want to come along to this new session. If this session develops then we'll take it further or as far as the regular participants want to take it with fortnightly and even weekly sessions. So come and join us. There will be extra time after the session ends for guys to mix and exchange contact details.

SAT 27th 7 till 10PM ..... £10 (monthly) JOCKSTRAP & THONGS COACHING & WRESTLING SESSION For guys with a fetish for jocks or thongs! We'll be doing our regular coaching and wrestling and enjoying the bare-bum view at the same time!!! Exhibitionistic guys especially welcome!

Iain 07725165835 iainscott_8@btinternet.com ...if you need more info

Check out these future session dates of Wrestling and Coaching in Pinfall & Submission Wrestling - the Iain Scott & SPEEDO-WRESTLERS way!!!

Join us for two or three hours of serious wrestling and training in a very gay friendly and erotically charged session at our own wrestling equipped 16’x16’ mat room and clubhouse.

We have thick professional grade non-slip jigsaw mats with soft all-black cover, surrounding wall mats and huge-sized crash mats! All bouts are refereed for safety and timed by electronic timer.

Group coaching costs only £5 per 2 or 3hr session. Saturday wrestling specials are charged at £10 per session. However, inexpensive (£30 per hour) individual coaching is now being provided in a formal or erotic-wrestler format (if you prefer).

The Clubhouse and mat room are also inexpensively rentable (£10 per wrestler per 3 hours) for your own private bouts or sessions.

We also have a 12' wide by 30" high oil and water wrestling pool. SPEEDO-WRESTLERS is Britain's ONLY and BEST openly gay/bi wrestling coaching club where the wrestling action is always truly educational and the after wrestling action sometimes toasty!!

Come along even if you are just curious!! Midweek times 7-9 & weekend times 12-3PM and 7-10PM. New guys are very very very very welcome and you only wrestle if you want to wrestle, though you must participate in the coaching and practise.

Be warned!!! Wrestling stretches the parts other sports can never reach!

SPEEDO-WRESTLERS SESSION DATES MARCH & APRIL 2010 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedo-wrestlers/

WEEKLY COACHING SESSION DATES ..... MARCH Wed 3rd - 7 to 9PM ... Coaching & Wrestling Open Group (Weekly) ... £5 Wed 10th - 7 to 9PM ... Coaching & Wrestling Open Group (Weekly) ... £5 Tues 16th - 7 to 9PM ... Coaching & Wrestling Open Group (Weekly) ... £5 Tues 23rd - 7 to 9PM ... Coaching & Wrestling Open Group (Weekly) ... £5 Wed 31st - 7 to 9PM ... Coaching & Wrestling Open Group (Weekly) ... £5

SATURDAY WRESTLING SPECIALS ..... MARCH

Sat 6th - 12 to 3PM Under 35’s & Lightweights <175lbs Coaching & Wrestling Group (Monthly) ... £10 Sat 6th – 7 to 10PM The Sexual Wrestling Holds & Moves & Naked Wrestling (Monthly) ... £10

Sat 13th – 7 to 10PM TO BE ANNOUNCED (Monthly) ... £10

Sat 20th – 7 to 10PM TO BE ANNOUNCED (Monthly) ... £10

Sat 27th – 11 to 5PM HardAndy’s Body Punching & NHB Wrestling Session (Monthly) ... £10 Sat 27th – 7 to 10PM Rip ‘n Strip, Nude & Oil Wrestling (Monthly) ... £10

WEEKLY COACHING SESSION DATES ..... APRIL Wed 7th - 7 to 9PM ... Coaching & Wrestling Open Group (Weekly) ... £5 Tues 13th - 7 to 9PM ... Coaching & Wrestling Open Group (Weekly) ... £5 Tues 20th - 7 to 9PM ... Coaching & Wrestling Open Group (Weekly) ... £5 Wed 28th - 7 to 9PM ... Coaching & Wrestling Open Group (Weekly) ... £5 Wed 31st - 7 to 9PM ... Coaching & Wrestling Open Group (Weekly) ... £5

SATURDAY WRESTLING SPECIALS ..... APRIL

Sat 6th - 12 to 3PM Under 35’s & Lightweights <175lbs Coaching & Wrestling Group (Monthly) ... £10 Sat 6th – 7 to 10PM The Sexual Wrestling Holds & Moves & Naked Wrestling (Monthly) ... £10

Sat 10th – 12 to 3PM TO BE ANNOUNCED Sat 10th – 7 to 10PM TO BE ANNOUNCED

Sat 17th – 7 to 10PM TO BE ANNOUNCED

Sat 24th – 7 to 10PM TO BE ANNOUNCED

Sat 1st MAY – 12 to 3PM TO BE ANNOUNCED Sat 1st MAY – 7 to 10PM TO BE ANNOUNCED

In a hard fought team match, Florian and Lukas face off against Momo and Marcel. Florian and Lukas have the benefit of their experience from their many Fightplace matches, leaving the impression that no one can hold a candle to them. They have everything - speed, tactics, and technique. First Lukas and Marcel enter the ring. Lukas immediately takes it to Marcel. He does not even let him leave his corner. A quick tag from Lukas to Florian allows both fighters to save their strength and quickly finish Marcel. He has no chance to reach his tag team partner, Momo. After quite a while, he finally succeeds in tagging Momo, but Momo finds he is also hard pressed to gain any advantage over this formable team. Over and over again both Momo and Marcel must suffer under the hard legscissors of Lukas and Florian. There is also plenty of schoolboypins that Lukas clearly takes pleasure in, enjoying his dominate position over his opponent. Only once and a while do Marcel and Momo have any success against their opponents. It is clear who the winners are of this match. Lukas and Florian punish Momo and Marcel with plenty of wedgies, scissors and pins.

http://www.fightplace.com

Dear members,

There have been some visible and not-so-visible changes in AllFighters recently, and I figured it was time I wrote another of these news posts.

This is probably the most visible. The new chat system is based on flash, and will hopefully be more reliable and visually pleasing than the previous chat system. You can still use any of the old systems if you prefer; simply go to the preferences page, and select the chat system you like.

Photo Moderation

In order to make the system more transparent AND more economical on my time, I am now "crowdsourcing" the moderation of photos on this site. As you might know, naked, shoking, sexually explicit, etc. photos are not allowed on our site.

Now, when you visit a member's profile or the list of photos, you can tag inappropriate photos as such. This will help me run the site more efficiently. Flagging such photos is anonymous, but doesn't automatically remove the offending photo. If a photo is flagged by enough members, the site moderators will deal with it.

Changing User Names

Right now, you cannot change your username on AllFighters. Once you create your profile, you're kind of stuck with whatever you entered at registration time. There is a reason for that: AllFighters is a social networking site. This means that once we get to know you as "SuperGrappler", that is who you are to us. If you change your name to something else, all the knowledge about you as "SuperGrappler" is lost, and we must meet you again with your new alias.

In short: name changes are detrimental to how the site is supposed to work. Sure, you could delete your profile, and create a new one with your latest and greatest name, but there are some drawbacks: You lose all your favorites, past opponents, recommendations and messages.

In order to balance the need for the social aspects of our site and the need of some members for a new alias, I am now considering the following: I would allow members to change their names, under two conditions. First, you cannot do it more than once a year. (I expect that for "normal" usage of this site, this shouldn't be much of a limitation.) Second: in order to change your name, you must pay a token amount, something like €20. There is rationale for this: if changing your name isn't worth €20, it was probably not very important anyway, and your current name will do just fine. More importantly, this is a small compensation you pay to the community (via helping me maintain the site), in exchange for our effort of having to adjust to your new name.

My question is: do you guys think this is worth exploring? Please, if you vote, also leave a comment stating why you feel that way.

• Do not allow changing of user names (129 votes: louisfight, chesterbloke, punzel, Toppler, looney45, uke, Jarda, wrestle bomb, tomwr, guerrero2s, romanhero, barefoot, BeefyWrestler, ukwrestler, Warkscub, bigt730, thingearfetish, hardandy312, mature jobber, MAXXXL, polo62, rogerman, SurreyGuy, schwergewichtsboxer, Sweatboy01de, lutte69, musclemarkuk, UKSubsFighter, ukpitbull, wrestleuksub, bguy, grpplr, best05, RobBerlin, Dragonbear, proheelmi, sockvid, londonwrestleguy, CaptainAndy, Gloved wrestler, TiteFig4, Fireball05, petrocelly, matt13226, Judo4fun, tonywrestleme, marlov, eastlondonkev, midblue, BallbusterBoy, Supersub, EricGrappler, speedorassler, GregSBP, bailey, ArabianGuy, birminghamwrestler, oldscrapperderby, getagrip, headlockmehard, RingerCGN, Big Guy, solarplex, wrestler2000, mikey3458, pablo gonzalez, Dave Squeezemaster, Mortadelo, Scissors wrestler, aggroproll, paulo1943, g6fighter, chigrapple, spirit6060, fightmuscle, FinnFighter, mike69, blackwrestleruk, poseidonwrestler, alphadanny, Jedi, uk wrestler slam, competitive jobber, MikeUK, fitman, Sebastian Rios, TheBusiness, IndyWarrior31, VAballgrappler, TX bull, steviebak, RomaFighter, WrestleguyToronto, ikf, andreawrestling, wrestler19, Chrishann, dobbokid, barefighter, fundom, fightinms, fitfighter, joshboy1981, italian student, Toughbear, Churd, NYwrestlerman, midwestboxer, fmrhugger, TooHardforyou, lightmuscularitalian, lottatore69, london sub, Armybob, mikecumbria, scubawrestler, bear2967, Boxingmarco, Irishfighter, FightnmanWA, flexiwrestler, ukgrappler, rumbletumbleUK, jako, catcockfight, jopama70, Micha2, cybertiger, merseywrestle)
• Only allow name changes once a year (47 votes: boine, londonlad80, gutpuncher33, grapplyves, ukgrappling, domwrestler, cgnfighter, cyberwrestler21, olfbutgoodie, Admin, jb1bigdog, Muffn, squeezerian, Marbie, bg wrestler, SJerzyBro269, Raufbold1976, Tanker, dnaeel, BodyhairBoxer, wrestledave, DaeguDave, gj be, zeuscentauro, wrstnl, Freenote, roundhouse grappler, kirbyva, LondonHeel, animal, ikf, fightme1976, dbguy, BrettAZ, watlad103, Letswresl, iainscott 8, boothbee, SpandexLvr, Felixx, Foofnwoo1954, mckenzie10, MCRLON23UK, freakstar, ozwrestle, cool bln, wrestleboyuk)
• Allow name changes any time (5 votes: limafighter, Beat Ya, Blackbull, wrestleman, kewrestle)
• I don't care (56 votes: nycbrawl, GrapplingHB, scrapmerchant, DrkMusclCat, musclejudo, RuffFightChallenge, wantowrsl, highflyeral, Alan2005sg, asiart, slamitdown, Lafkos, alexwres, Virgowrestler, mikeswuk, fun missouri guy, MaulerMike, Japh1966, benhard63, BJJgrappler, londonoriental, yorksguywrestleuk, TorontoBxr, bcapprentice, Manboxer, whifferdill, backbreakers123, DUNKBOY, cum4fight, YngPhillyWrestler, lusowrestler, Dirtyfighter, denstur, lutador, dixiedaddy, gotwrestler, MuslWrsl, nidave, hashbock, leeuwbeest, highscreener, ukscisors, GuyMN1983, action2win, saesneg, readymate, NJWoodbridge, restle70, slick, musclebear2b, nico, BearhugAddict, finest, travelstud, Bearhuggruk, Sussexskin)

Hi guys, its with a heavy heart I have to inform you,that, the RedCloud Street wrestling website has now been deleted. The reason for this can be found on the following link:- http://ukff.com/index.php?showtopic=117857&st=0 This site totally ridicules us all,that, enjoy what we do, see the pics and comments made etc...by various LOWLIFES on the 7 pages on the above link. ALL my pics are being removed online I'm sad to say as I've had enough of this carry on, also, my videos on youtube are also deleted as they were also ridiculed on that site,if I create another website, I'll let you ALL know. For the facebook users, beware as the person that has done this, is a member of a facebook wrestling group page,so, be careful what pics you have on there if you use that website too,ALL the best,

Lance Aka RedCloud Street

I was up in London towards the end of last year and managed to get along to the Grapple 101 held at the 'Eagle'. The event I attended was only the second of these events to take place, so I expect that the organisers were feeling their way a bit and for all I know, the event I attended may not be typical of the more recent ones.

I can say that I did very much enjoy my evening (night really) at Grapple 101 and I hope to be back again when I get the chance. It was definitely an extra thrill for me to wrestle for an audience of 'punters', i.e. guys off the street (generally gay or bi ones of course, it is a gay bar). I really felt like I was a 'proper' wrestler as I stepped out onto the mat, naked except for my swim trunks, and watched by all those guys in their street cloths. I suppose I must be a bit of an exhibitionist, at least with wrestling, but if you dont like the idea of being on display you had better just go to Grapple 101 as a spectator. You dont have to wrestle if you dont want to.

I reckon that having an audience did encourage me to wrestle to the best of my ability. There were some experienced wrestlers present that night, so as a relative beginner I lost more rounds than I won, at least I hope the punters enjoyed watching my helpless struggles as I was forced into painful submissions! Mind you, I did get my own back against a couple of other novices present. A nice thing was that the audience applauded every submission so we must have been doing something right to keep them interested.

I arrived soon after doors open time, along with a group of four other wrestlers I already knew quite well - this pastime is quite a small community. The changing facilities were basic, but then you dont really need much in the way of facilities to get undressed and slip into your swim trunks. Our cloths were packed away and looked after for the rest of the evening, so keep some change aside for soft drinks. Some people wrestled in boots, but I prefer bare feet and either option seemed acceptable. Obviously, if you are going to wear boots they must be the soft wrestling type boots. Most of us wore swim trunks, but shorts also seemed acceptable, so I would say you can just wear what you enjoy wrestling in.

Ashley and the other organisers were really helpful in getting us wrestlers at least a bit organised and making sure that everyone who wanted got a chance to get on the mat. Basically it was up to you who you chose to challenge to a fight and i think you do have to be a bit careful fighting with someone you have never met before. I think everyone present was taking care to wrestle safely but you can never be sure. At least with an event like this you can watch someone wrestling before you decide to challenge them. I hear that they have now introduced referreeing which should also help keep it safe. Its fine to wake up the next morning with sore muscels everywhere, but no one wants to get injured. There was a bit of a difficulty with the mats slipping about on the floor, so some of us held the mats still when not our turn to wrestle - at least that way I got a real close up view of the action. I hear the problem of the slipping mats may now been solved. At one point they got us novices to do some simple training exercises, practicing set moves on each other, but I am not sure that was so successful. The background music was not excesively loud but it was loud enough that it was hard to hear the instructions, so it may not be an ideal training environment. Later in the evening we did tag wrestling, but not the ususl team tag wrestling. We just had four wrestlers standing around the edge of the mat and the guy in trouble would tag the nearest. That seemed to work well, it kept the action going and it got me wrestling with a few guys, Ashley for one, who I wouldnt have dared to challenge otherwise. Was fun struggling against such a fit muscular guy as Ashley, even if it was for only 15 seconds or so. It was a late night for me. I had intended to leave at midnight but I just couldnt tear myself away and stayed till chucking out time in the early hours.

Hope that has given anyone who is thinking of going to one of these events an idea of what it is about.

It's been quite some time since I have written something online. Actually it's been quite some time since I have looked for a "private" fight or match. Back at it? Well, let's say yes if I can find some good opportunities, genuine fighters also.

Many reasons for not much action the past months, or should I say last two years? I was, first of all, tired of looking for matches and wasting my time online for, 95% of the time, nothing or just big mouths and fakes. Then I admit, the death if my good buddy Christian who I fought with so often made me go a bit away of this "world" of men private fighting. I also have had some issues with health, going to be good now, fingers crossed. And finally I now train MMA and find some good opportunies to fight, spar and scrap there.

But well, anyone who wants some action, feel free to contact me.