The STRUGGLE is real - newww stufffffff

Welp, I know what I'll be spending too much time on soon

The first news for today is more related to things other people made, but thanks to Fuee's waistcoat parts, The Secret Evil Service Elite Agents have new alt attires that look sick as hellllllll

And relating to things involving me toiling away at Photoshop for several minutes, after all these years, there are still no solid clues as to the true identity of Tupac Machine, but recent evidence indicates that he came from The West.

Congratulations to Business Clown for becoming the first STRUGGLE Hoss Dojo trainee to be immortalized direct-to-garment on a 50/50 cotton/polyester blend.

Another sizable update of stuff I'll never finish and/or forget to put on the workshop heeeeck yeeeeaahhhhhh

First of all Agent 35 has officially transcended being merely an expendable member of the Secret Evil Service, and has become the Evil Administration's representative in the deathmatch division. 

In theory, he's the fourth-ranked named member of the organization, behind Agent Fang, Agent Bulldog, and President Evil himself, but clearly has the best gear, which kinda bums out Fang and Bulldog, and honestly pisses off the President.

Now, a pretty big joint update to GRIM HOLLER WRASSLIN' and LEGENDS OF THE TRI-STATE AREA

First, here's the official IMMORTAN JIMMY "MEMORIAL" T-SHIRT

With hospital staff now fully invested in the theory that the comatose former STRUGGLE superstar literally cannot die and needing more beds for COVID-19 patients, they have honestly considered just kind of chucking him out in the alley and checking up on him every few days.  So all proceeds from these shirts go toward bribing them to hopefully not do that.  for the record, he remains the official #1 contender to whoever the new cruiserweight champion ends up being.

Now, two additions to the currently inactive GHW promotion, THE MOOK BOYS, ROY AND LANCE.

Roy and Lance Mook moved out to Grim Holler about a year ago, and no one thought much about it, although they did wonder why two grown-ass brothers were sharing a house together.  Welp, turns out, they weren't actually brothers, but in fact a married couple.  This didn't go over very well at first, given the religiously conservative nature of the average residents of a hillbilly holler.  But local leader/Tri-State Area wrestling legend Hillbilly Grim is a dude whose Christianity is more of the old-school Jesus Christ  variety than the modern Sean Hannity variety, so he decided to sit down with them for a while and see what these dudes were all about before passing judgement. He came away with the impression that despite past troubles with the law, they were "just some good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm," and since then, they have become popular and valued members of the community and even decided to try their hand at pro wrestling.  While Grim Holler Wrasslin' is currently on hiatus, they've expressed interest in eventually enrolling in the STRUGGLE Pro Hoss Dojo.

Now, dipping back into the past, here's one of the area's hottest tag teams of the 1980s, THE SCUFFLIN' GRIMS

HILLBILLY GRIM - Before he fell under that combine harvester and became the gruesome-yet-lovable patriarch of the Grim clan, Marcel "Hillbilly" Grim Jr. teamed up with the younger brother Slim to be a multiple time Tri-State Wrestling Alliance tag team champion. 
PRESENT DAY:  Despite pushing sixty, losing his face in a combine accident, and having gained at least a hundred pounds since his heyday, the massive hog farmer still wrestles part time in STRUGGLE Pro, alongside his three grownup young'uns, Lorelei, Jezebel, and Junior.

(l-r: overalls, jeans, 90s Olive Japan look, present day)
SLIM GRIM

Younger brother and tag team partner of local legend Hillbilly Grim, contrasting his brother's bulk with his gangly frame, standing just over 7 feet tall, but topping out around 240 pounds.  Was the more technically skilled of the duo, and made a perfect compliment to Hillbilly's brute force.  In 1992, the team broke up on pretty bad terms, to the point where they've only briefly crossed paths at weddings and funerals and allegedly haven't spoken to each other in nearly thirty years.  Had a brief run in Olive Japan, and did well, even occasionally tagging up with the legendary Great Shiba, until lingering knee and hip problems led to his retirement.
PRESENT DAY:  Runs a tow truck business just outside Jacksonville and doesn't like to talk about his wrasslin' days.  Had to start wearing shoes after a nasty infection almost cost him a foot.

(L-R - two valet attires, one mud wrasslin' attire, and present day)
HOMERLINE GRIM - Was the reigning Miss Tri-State Area when she met the aforementioned Hillbilly Grim in 1990, and quickly became his valet, as well as eventually becoming his wife and mother of the aforementioned three Grim girls. Occasionally also wrestled, but this was the 90s, so it was mostly mud wrestling type nonsense, and really doesn't count. Has been blamed by many for splitting up the Scufflin' Grims tag team by advising her husband to focus on a singles career.
PRESENT DAY: If you ask Hillbilly Grim, she "lives with the angels now," but that's just a less painful way of saying "she ran off to Anaheim with her 23 year old Zumba instructor, Gonzalo." Is embarrassed by her past and has seemingly left every aspect of her old life behind, cutting off all ties with her former family. Middle daughter Jezebel is particularly perturbed with this, vowing to "kick the living dog-fuck outta that woman" if she ever sets foot in Grim Holler again.

Lil' copy/paste from earlier in the thread:

NEW FAKE MERCH! (spoilered for ease of scrolling)

Meanwhile, two special edition edits that popped up in recent streams:

Here's "Skip Legday," who is clearly just STRUGGLE's most downtrodden jabroni, Churd Grunson, in some sort of cobbled together muscle suit

and not related whatsoever, here's "Captain STRUGGLE," who is clearly the regular Captain after a whole lot of (exclusively upper-body) weight training

And then, here's them NEW EDITS I'LL NEVER FINISH AND/OR REMEMBER TO UPLOAD~!

One for the "Legends of the Tri-State Area" pile, here's FIRST LADY EVIL, one of the two inaugural members of the Evil Administration. Had a brief, fairly dominant run in early 2010s STRUGGLE and was scheduled to fight for the women's title at the (absolutely cursed) Eternal STRUGGLE 2011 Pay-Per-View, until a domestic dispute involving the La Grange family shat all over that.  Supported her apparent spouse, President Evil, in sort of a managerial role sporadically in places like Olive Japan and NEO-ONE, but seems to have settled into an unofficial retirement. (although in behind-the-scenes news, she is going to make a brief cameo in an upcoming STRUGGLE Session that I haven't finished typing)

The fourth and final member of the SLAMMED STRAIGHT! Program, EL GRAN LARCENY is the only member of the group with prior wrestling experience, apparently having been a moderately well-known luchador in the 90s and 2000s. Federal masked wrestler protection laws prevent his original ring name from being revealed, but it was most definitely not "El Gran Larceny."

And while they won't begin officially training for a few months at least, along with the previously mentioned tag team of Them Mook Boys, here are the next three members of the HOSS DOJO SECOND CLASS:

THE ATOMIC DOG is a bizarrely-masked high-flyer who is - to the best of our knowledge - not actually radioactive, although the situation is fluid, and this could always change.

DEADLY NIGHTSHADE (semi-tentative name, because I get the feeling someone else has used this before, but maybe not, I dunno, get off my back) was a brilliant college student who was passed over for a prestigious botany fellowship, and retaliated against the department with some sort of horrible cupcake-based mass-poisoning.  She got expelled, and now she's stuck doing this bullshit. Master of the deadly green mist.

Finally, CLEVE HAWK is a massive truck driver turned professional arm wrestler who hopes to make another turn toward professional regular-ass wrestling. Immensely powerful and capable of doing great harm to his opponents' arms in particular, but has a bad back from all those years out on the highway, and I'm pretty sure he's already like 40-something.

Another batch of new costumes for old edits, fresh off the SHELTER IN PLACE 2020 tour finale. (image spoilered both for hugeness and at least one massive spoiler, although I doubt anyone would care)