The Hannah Perez: Fem-Fight Performer/Producer Extraordinaire

[I just noticed it's been 5 years since my last update here! Where in the world did that time go???]

Well, the fetish fight scene keeps changing.  In the last several years, some incredible performers have exited stage left into retirement (I'm looking at you, Paris Kennedy, Randy Moore, and JC Marie!), but there are always new stars rising to fill the void.  Indeed, the proliferation of models who produce their own videos (essentially one-woman studios) means that there are more choices than ever for commissioning custom fight material.  There used to be just a handful of big producers like DT Wrestling, Steel Kittens, and California Wildcats (yes, I know I'm dating myself a bit with that list) who were putting out videos on VHS when the Internet was barely a thing.  Then with the advent of camcorders for the masses and electronic means of video distribution, a wave of second-generation producers arrived, including the first models who took to hiring their own videographers so they could produce and star in their own videos and thus receive custom requests directly.

Fast forward a few years, and the cameras and video editing software have become so accessible that many models can now do everything on their own, from behind the camera, to in front of the camera, to post-production.  So although some big traditional fetish-fight production companies are still out there (DT just goes on and on!), there is a downright bewildering array of options out there today for where to send your custom fight script.  But the quality, as you might expect, is all over the map.  Nowadays, there are far, far more general fetish content producers who accept fight-related scripts alongside tons of other types of content, than there are fem-fight specialist producers like Ring Divas and Hit the Mat Wrestling.  And it can be hard to know whether any given model who has her own company and is accepting scripts of all kinds actually has the chops to sell fight moves well and can adequately direct other models to do the same.  Plus, most solo model-producers don't have routine access to wrestling rings or other fight-related props, so most of the fetish fight content out there now is just set in an apartment or hotel room, or maybe a mat room, if you're lucky, so most scripts have to fit those settings.  To add to the confusion, many of these producer-models travel around the country shooting with each other when their paths cross, so if you want to see two particular performers together, you may have to wait a long time for the stars to align to have them in the same place, and then you have to decide which of them to actually send your script to since either one of them could be the producer for your video.

Amidst all of these variables, there is a huge amount of trial and error involved in working with today's menagerie of fetish fight producers.  But without risk, there is no reward!  And the upside of today's landscape is that there are so many choices at hand for fem-fight material that something is bound to be available out there to cater to virtually any niche interest, if you look hard enough and are willing to take a few chances to find it.

With that backdrop, I want to highlight a few producer-models that at least in my experience have proven to be excellent bets for custom fetish fight productions (and no, I'm not being paid by anyone to say any of this--it's just my own two cents that you can take or leave).

Firstly, in this post, I want to talk about Hannah Perez, a true favorite of mine among the current generation of fetish fight performers/producers.  (I'll tackle other recommended fem-fight models/producers in later posts.)

The Hannah Perez

Hannah Perez is not new to this business.  She's been modeling/performing for 10 years and has appeared in fem-fight productions for almost every major producer.  As of now, Hannah is exclusively her own boss, shooting for her own production company (Fetishland Studios) and traveling when and where she wills to do so.  Hannah accepts custom requests for all manner of fetish content, but she has a ton of experience with fight-related material and even has a specific store dedicated to this genre (Fetishlands Fight Night).

So why am I such a big Hannah fan?  Ah, let me count the ways ...

As a fetish fight performer, Hannah is a gem.  She's as pretty as they come and her physique is a perfect blend of soft (and ample) curves underlaid with solidly toned muscle. Hannah's balanced looks are super versatile, allowing her to be equally convincing as a good girl or bad girl, superheroine or villainess, strong girl or weak, nerd or glamour-queen, submissive or dom.  Hannah can truly fit any role.  For instance, Hannah is very fit and even muscular, so she can play a credible brute when needed, but she is not SO bulging with muscle that she can't pull off a soft and delicate look befitting a weak victim if that's what the script requires.

Likewise, Hannah can rock pretty much any attire.  She can fill out a busty superheroine costume, a sexy business ensemble, a cool spy girl getup, a one-piece wrestling outfit, or a simple bikini.  I have yet to see Hannah wear anything that she didn't look fabulous in.

But beyond just good looks, Hannah also has a very credible fighting presence, which makes all the difference in this particular fetish genre.  I'm not aware that Hannah has any formal training in wrestling or boxing, but Hannah looks very natural when she goes into fight mode, and she knows how to throw punches that look skilled and powerful.  So when Hannah's character is called upon to put a beatdown on her opponent, you have no trouble believing that Hannah is seriously kicking ass.

Hannah's got moves, and a killer game face!

On the flip side, though, Hannah is also a master of selling the receiving end of a fantasy beating.  This comes down to two qualities that Hannah has in spades:

First is acting ability.  Hannah goes all-in when she's playing her roles.  She gets totally into each character and uses her body language, facial expressions, and speech pattern to convey a fully-realized persona to match the character she's playing.  And when that character is on the losing end of a fight, Hannah sells the physical and emotional anguish of defeat perfectly, looking appropriately dazed, and weak, and suffering.

Second, and equally important, is straight-up toughness.  In my opinion (as I've said before on this blog), it's difficult to bring to life a fantasy involving supposedly powerful body punches if the models aren't able to tolerate at least some legitimate contact of fist against flesh.  Fantasy fights involve inherently fake punches, but in the best-looking fantasy fights, the punches aren't totally pulled but instead are allowed to land with just enough force to be convincing while still being safe.  But a model needs to be pretty tough to take these kinds of partially-pulled/partially-real punches during an extended fantasy fight scenario.  Some otherwise excellent models just can't hang with getting hit with any amount of actual force, but Hannah is one tough cookie and she can take the kinds of hits that are needed to sell a truly credible fantasy beating.

Hannah also shines as a producer.  She is highly detail-oriented and strives for perfection in bringing a script to life with all of the little nuances requested by the customer.  She gets that seemingly little things can matter a great deal to customers in this genre, and she listens carefully to what is asked and tries hard to deliver exactly that.  And when inevitable misses do happen, she listens to the feedback and steadily improves.  Hannah also is direct about any limitations or difficulties she sees with the script and will work with the customer to come up with something feasible that still hits the right buttons.  Hannah communicates clearly about costs up front, and she delivers a polished, fully edited product in a timely way.  In all, Hannah is a total pleasure to work with!

As a fetish fight performer and producer, Hannah Perez gets an enthusiastic A+/A+ from me!

"Super Spies--The Beginning" from USCWF

This video features three of the hottest young ladies to grace the fantasy fem-fight world in recent years, Paris Kennedy, Nicole Oring, and Akira Lane.  Since splashing on the combat scene, these three beauties have worked for a number of the same producers, and often have starred together in the same videos.  But it's only fairly recently that they've tried their hands (and bodies!) at full-fledged slugging videos.

 (Left: Nicole Oring; Top: Paris Kennedy; Right: Akira Lane)

This time, they appear together in a quirky but spirited punching bonanza from USCWF World Championship Division, one of the current video venues operated by belly punching veterans Markus and Candace (the latter being a BP performer turned producer).  Markus made a name for himself in the punching world in the 1990s with a number of slugging matches he scripted for DT Wrestling and eventually for his own body punching production shop, MWO Films.  Markus' DT scripts and MWO matches were among the early vanguard of truly specialized videos dedicated exclusively to a singular passion for punching.

I remember being delighted to first discover fem-fight bouts in which punching was not an incidental element sprinkled sparingly within a larger sea of tactics (this was back when VHS tapes made scanning for the parts of a match you liked a real chore), but instead punching in these matches was the appetizer, the salad, the main course, and the dessert!  Nonstop, undiluted, unapologetically narrow body punching videos was a specialty niche Markus inhabited and helped to define before many other producers caught on that there was a real fan base for such material.  I am glad that Markus has stuck to his same basic vision for all-out slugfests after all these years.  Along the way, he has brought some of the best and most beautiful performers in the business into hardcore punchland, an impressive feat.

That said, Markus has always had a few Achilles' heels in his video-making style, and it's a bit disappointing that in all these years, he hasn't managed to address them.  Firstly, Markus has a penchant for wanting to get in front of the camera and be one of the performers in his videos.  I can't really blame him for wanting to get in the mix and be part of his own fantasy creations, but unfortunately, Markus has neither the physical presence nor the acting skills to really pull it off, so it's usually just a huge distraction to have him pop into view during what otherwise might have been a great slugging scene.

But more importantly, Markus is simply not a strong cinematographer (or director, if someone else is shooting the footage for him).  The production values are almost always very low, with good performances from the ladies often being marred by poor lighting, low-resolution video capture, bad editing, and downright sloppy camera work (in the current video, for instance, I count no less than 4 times when different people who happened to be loitering around the house where the video was being shot wound up accidentally in the camera's view during the fighting action; usually, the interlopers gave a sudden deer-in-the-headlights look and darted away, but even their fleeting presence on screen just makes the whole video seem like such an utterly amateur production).  The performers and the actual slugging content of Markus' videos can be truly superlative, but it's a bummer that he hasn't made the effort to improve the technical aspects of his video-making craft in all this time.

All of the above (the good and the bad) comes shining through in "Super Spies--The Beginning."

First, the good: Um, so like, did I mention Paris Kennedy, Nicole Oring, and Akira Lane???  These are absolute A-listers, and it's brilliant to have them all together in a slugging melee!  Paris Kennedy, in particular, has an exceptional physique for punching (slim but curvy, fit but still slightly soft-appearing, cute-as-can-be navel, and naturally stacked bustline), and her face is as pretty as her body is hot.  Paris has a solid, clearly practiced punching style, but as good as she is at dishing it out, Paris is even better on the receiving end, where she absolutely nails all the right bodily reactions and facial expressions befitting a well-punched lass.  Paris definitely gets it!

Nicole Oring and Akira Lane also are great performers.  They both have somewhat distinctive looks that I suppose either work for you or don't.  They both also display a lot of energy in their performances, although I personally like Akira better as a puncher.  Akira has a very aggressive, scrappy punching style that makes her seem like she'd be a really tough streetfighter, and it's always a great show to watch Akira throw down on a sexy victim's body.  Nicole, on the other hand, has a slightly peculiar way of starting every punch with an exaggerated windmill windup--it's fine once or twice, but it begins to look a bit silly to me when she does it every single time.  I guess it's her signature thing, and maybe some people like it.  I do think Nicole pulls off some very nice reactions on the receiving end, though.

The plot of the current video is pretty thin, but it's adequate.  Paris plays Silent Angel.  It's not really clear who Silent Angel is or what she stands for, but Paris shows up to confront Mr. Black (Markus) while looking for his henchwoman, The Asian Assassin (Nicole Oring).  Presumably, Silent Angel has some score to settle with The Asian Assassin, or maybe just wants to bring her to justice--it's never really explained.  In an odd little interaction, Paris forces Mr. Black into submission by simply taking off her top and displaying her breasts to him.  I don't know if Silent Angel's breasts are supposed to emit some visual superpower, or whether Mr. Black is just such a crazed breast lover that the mere sight of bare boobage renders him helpless, but for whatever reason, Mr. Black takes one look at Paris' hot mamas and drops to his knees to beg for mercy.

In the meantime, Nicole sneaks up and attacks Paris from behind with a prolonged crotch grab that somehow greatly weakens Silent Angel.  With Paris now wobbly on her feet, The Asian Assassin sets about pounding fist after fist into Silent Angel's unprotected abs and chest.  Paris takes the abuse while still standing in the middle of the floor, and although I normally prefer punching against a wall, Paris does such a brilliant job with her reactions that I really don't think I could have liked the action any better no matter where she was standing.  Paris just rocks the victim role like nobody's business!  Nicole, for her part, does a nice job changing up her tactics at a good pace, mixing in face punches, knee lifts, belly claws, tit squeezes, and nonstandard belly punches delivered from behind (see images below), all of which keeps the action fresh and interesting, despite the primary focus on body punching.

Now, although the action in this segment was great, the cinematography left something to be desired.  The main problem was that the camera was shooting the girls against backgrounds with a lot of extreme light-dark contrasts caused by sunlight coming through windows or blinds behind them.  As a result, the camera kept changing its exposure level, which made the apparent level of lighting on the girls go up and down--sometimes Paris and Nicole were a bit washed out because they were too bright (overexposed), and sometimes they were hard to see because they were too dark (underexposed).  Look again at the series of pictures above, and notice how the level of lighting varies a great deal between images.  All of the footage was also just a little blurry, which I think was simply because the camera lacked really good resolution (particularly in the low lighting), rather than a problem with the auto-focus.  Either way, it was hard even finding frames of the video clear enough to be worth pulling out and capturing as still shots to post in this article--most individual frames were just too blurry to really appreciate the action.

The fight eventually moves to another part of the room, where Silent Angel manages (without a clear explanation of how) to turn the tide.  Now, it's The Asian Assassin's turn to be on the receiving end of a beatdown, and in this segment all the action takes place against a wall, where Paris beats Nicole about the belly, breasts, face, and crotch with skillful relish.

But before Paris can complete her victory, Mr. Black's other henchwoman, Tiger Lily (Akira), steps in out of nowhere (well, actually, you know where she's stepping in from, because during the fight between Paris and Nicole, the camera accidentally captures Akira sitting at a table in the background apparently reading the script to prepare for her role, while Markus sits next to her watching the filming--amateur, amateur, amateur!).


At any rate, Tiger Lily bops Silent Angel upside the head from behind and drops her like a stone.  Then Tiger Lily helps The Asian Assassin to her feet, and it's time for the third and final phase of the video to begin--a 2-on-1 beatdown of the divine Paris Kennedy!

Nicole and Akira drag Paris outside to a wrestling ring (it's never really explained why Mr. Black's hideout would have such a ring, but I guess for moments just like this! lol).  After a scene cut, Paris suddenly is shown inside the ring trapped against the ropes--each of her arms is tied to the top rope with, like, 50 feet of heavy red twine (I guess Silent Angel has super-strength or something, so it took all that twine to keep her bound?).  From here on, Paris never changes positions again.  Tiger Lily and The Asian Assassin want to know where the rest of Silent Angel's buddies have their base of operations, and when Paris won't talk, Akira and Nicole proceed with an extended double-demolition of the helpless Silent Angel, which completes the video.

The 2-on-1 beatdown follows a set order of assault, which is conveniently (and cornily) spelled out at the beginning of the ring scene by Markus, who is back in his Mr. Black role and instructs his henchwomen as follows (and I quote): "Alright, girls, use every move you've got!  First, destroy her breasts, then her stomach, then her pussy.  Throw some face shots in just for the heck of it all throughout ... till she talks."

And that's exactly what Tiger Lily and The Asian Assassin do! :)  Standing on opposite sides of Paris, the henchwomen simultaneously throw a long barrage of punches and claws at Silent Angel's breasts, then they move down to give the same treatment to her midsection (adding kicks to the mix), and finally they finish the job with similar treatment of Paris' crotch.

Much of the punching action from Akira and Nicole in this segment is first-rate (and the reactions from Paris are spectacular, as always), but the flow is a little uneven, as Akira and Nicole are sometimes punching completely independently at different spots on Paris' body at the same time (making it hard for Paris to know whom to react to when, though she does a great job sorting it out), whereas other times Akira and Nicole try to coordinate their volleys to land in succession rather than simultaneously--but the transitions between independent vs coordinated punching are sometimes a little stilted, since the girls had no clear signal when to switch and would not always think to change at the same time.

In general, the 2-on-1 action was effective, although I personally find the simultaneous punching to be less than the sum of its parts, because you can't really focus your attention everywhere at once to see how the punches are landing and how Paris' body is reacting to each girl's abuse.  And as the viewer, continually having to dart your eyes around the screen to figure out which thing is most worth watching at any given second might be a bit distracting to some people--it was to me.

But on the whole, I found the slugging action in this video to be very well done and to have a good bit of variety (wall vs no wall, restrained vs unrestrained, 2-on-1 vs 1-on-1, apartment setting vs wrestling ring, Paris in charge vs Paris getting beat down, etc.).  The best thing about the video is undoubtedly the trio of leading ladies and how well they execute most of the combat moves and deliver the right reactions.  The worst things about the video had nothing to do with the girls, or even the script really--it was just an extremely amateur-feeling production because of the sloppy cinematography and because of Markus' totally superfluous but badly-acted cameos.  The same punching action with higher production values would have been an easy A.  But instead, through no fault of the girls, I must give a lower mark here, to leave room at the top for videos that actually get everything right, including solid video quality and good production values.

I hope Markus will continue doing what he's doing ... just a little better. :)

Grade: B

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"Interview with a Vamp" from DT Wrestling

This bare-fisted brawl has an impressive triumvirate of performers in Diana Knight, JC Marie, and Tylene Buck, who I think are among DT's best right now. The plot, as usual, is not too complicated. Diana is the office boss and makes a pass at JC Marie during an interview; when JC Marie rebuffs her, Diana beats the blond senseless with a combination of belly and face punches. Then Diana calls in JC Marie's lover, Tylene, and beats her senseless in similar fashion. Eventually, while Diana is getting frisky with her victims, JC Marie finds an opportunity to turn the tide, and the video switches gears to a 2-on-1 beatdown of Diana Knight, which contains a decent dose of belly punches mixed in with low blows, face punches, and a few breast punches, plus some bearhugs and other non-punching tactics.

For a scripted slugging match, this video has a lot going for it. The office attire is really hot, with JC Marie and Tylene in particular wearing scandalously sexy "business outfits" that barely contain their bountiful bods, as if tempting Diana to check out what's underneath and giving her cause for frustration when her advances are denied. Over the course of the video, most of the clothes come off, but it's not very common to see slugging action in business attire, so it was interesting to watch the ladies brawling in their office best even before more skin was bared. The DT set in which the video was shot also passes very nicely for an interview room in a corporate setting.

All three performers are credible sluggers and generally get really into their roles and sell the action well, as I think they did here. There was sufficient variety in the beatdown tactics to keep things from getting too monotonous, but enough focus was spent on punching to legitimately call this a slugging match. And the fact that it was a 3-girl script also kept the pacing lively, as things progressed smoothly from a 1-on-1 beatdown of JC Marie to a 1-on-1 beatdown of Tylene Buck to a 2-on-1 beatdown of Diana Knight.

But in spite of all this going for it, I ultimately would characterize this match as good, but not quite great (as it easily could have and should have been). The main reason the video missed a higher mark is something I've spoken of before--bad camera angles. As you can see in the images above and below, there is a heavy focus on punching against the wall in the 1-on-1 beatdown segments, but the spot chosen for the wall punching forced the camera to shoot primarily from Diana's left side while she pounded her upright victims. However, Diana mostly punches with her right hand (presumably because that's her dominant hand), and when you try to shoot right-handed punching from the puncher's left side, the puncher's body predictably spends a lot of time blocking the camera's view of the victim. So instead of seeing Diana's fist plowing into JC Marie's and Tylene's midsections, you mostly just see Diana's back at the moment of impact. As a result, you are given the overall impression of solid gut slugs happening, but at the critical moments you are denied actually seeing the punches land.

Others may feel differently, but to me, watching a puncher's back is not nearly so interesting as watching the victim's belly actually receiving the fist. So it's frustrating to have what appears to be great slugging action unfolding on the screen, but to have the camera stuck in a vantage point that robs the viewer of the most important visuals.

That said, what saves the video from an even lower mark ("good" is still, well, good!) is the generally great performers and the fact that not ALL the punching is against the wall, so there are at least some sequences where you do get to see the fists hitting home, primarily in the 2-on-1 segment where Diana is on the receiving end.

My favorite sequence is when the blonds have Diana pinned on the floor with her arms stretched up over her head, and JC Marie straddles Diana and delivers some truly first-class punches straight down into Diana's open gut. Being a scripted match, the punches are of course fake, but JC Marie is a master in the art of credible pulled punches. JC Marie has a great, full-body wind-up as she cocks her fist back, and she launches her fist forward with vicious speed, carrying the motion all the way through to the point of impact. JC Marie's slugging technique is picture-perfect, which makes for some great action when she has Diana on her back and the camera is actually viewing from a good angle to see the full punch sequence from start to finish.

It's in this same segment that JC Marie throws pretty much the only breast punches of the match--she does this with both fists at once, which is not so much my thing, but that's normally because the puncher just looks awkward and unconvincing trying to depict a credible double-punch when she often hasn't even mastered a credible single-punch. But JC Marie is so good that she can even punch convincingly with both fists at once, and it works. JC Marie also does a great job of lavishly grinding her fists around in Diana's bosoms at the end of her punches to add insult to the injury. JC Marie further ratchets up the heat by pausing to rub her sculpted torso up and down Diana's in between punches, as if teasing Diana with the same sex appeal that got Diana's juices flowing in the first place, but now instead of getting JC Marie's hot body, Diana is only getting the blond's cruel fists. The sexy teasing is a nice little psychological twist to the retribution beatdown.

JC Marie is definitely near the very top of my personal list of primo punchers, and I would give an A+ to her sequence pounding Diana on the floor in this video. It's just too bad the rest of the video wasn't more of the same. This one excellent sequence with JC Marie on top definitely helps make the overall video worthwhile, but despite the superlative performance from JC Marie and solid work from both of the other ladies as well, the bad camera angles for so much of the action holds the video back and ultimately leaves it in the category of "almost great, but instead just good." On the whole, though, I do think most fans of scripted slugging would enjoy this video, and for those who don't actually need to see the punch landing for full enjoyment, they might just love it. So check it out!

Grade: B

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