That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 04, 2023

After John got cut from the wrestling team, he decided to go to chiropractic school.

/// Wrestlers in the gym, on the mat rolled,

until one, with a half nelson hold,

as their arms intertwine

hurt the other man’s spine.

In a decade he may be paroled.

Winner gets the last pizza slice.

They’re going to get rug burn from the mats if they don’t wear their wrestling uniforms.

As the match entered the third round, Dahmer took a bite out of his opponents spleen.

but if we wrestle naked David, where will the sponsor’s logo go?

Bloody hell when are you going to bathe?

“You take that back! The IOC is NOT trying to replace Wrestling with Curling!”

Finals week at chiropractic school

The artist’s models must have had fun holding that pose…

Didn’t really want to see this at breakfast

Don’t wait to be told—You need Palmolive Gold!

Worst first date ever !

Two fellows, intensely entangled/

Relentlessly writhed and wrangled/

But the League still contends/

That the two remain friends:

And that nothing was damaged that dangled !

Jim Jordan vies for the speakership.

In time, their friendship evolved/

Disagreements were slowly dissolved/

They shared their vacations/

Then (at last!) last “had relations”/

And by marriage their woes were resolved !

“You better still be taking that Descovy for prep…”

Suddenly, David DePape realizes Paul Pelosi wasn’t interested in just being friends…

What really happened when David Bowie and Mick Jagger had their “sleepover”…

Is that Sal Mineo?

“This doesn’t look like the picture in the Kama Sutra. Are you sure we’re doing this right?”

That is the wrong color and shape for a birthmark. You need to have a Dermatologist check you for skin cancer.

Jenkins handily won the match due to gaining some crucial inside information: Williamson’s secret ticklish spot.

“No need to get rough. If you wanted to hold hands, just say so.”

“Let’s not use first names. That would be way too personal.”

Dude! Can you scratch my back? I can’t quite reach.

Wrestling without singlets / ends in smoking cigarettes / in the mor-or-ning.

Wrestlers: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eakins,_Thomas_-_Wrestlers_1899.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3056 (January 4, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 8 works by this artist have been used here (9 times total, including a repeat). The October 31, 2018, strip has the prior (the repeat). The active artist info URLs in my comment there were pointed to in my blog comment.

Non cage fighting…

if you have to wear underpants at least have the spotless, like the guy in the corner.. wait he’s not wearing any!

It was years before the Heimlich Maneuver was perfected.

You should have taken me up on the offer of “Rocks, paper, scissors”.

This is how my cats wrestle and sleep. No kidding—first they get tired and distracted and stay in a stalemate; then they find it’s the warmest place to sleep, and stay put.