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07:13 Jay_Ellis:
07:13 Jay_Ellis: The Factory Presents: Jay Recruits Jamal
07:13 Jay_Ellis: Liam Jock and I discovered Hans and Jay when they started training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at the Gracie Academy. Clearly they had been top notch high school wrestlers because they tore into their fellow white belts with great athleticism, precision and strength, and they barely knew any technique yet. We watched from our blue belt classes as they integrated jiu jitsu positional strategy and developed a basic guard game astonishingly fast. No one in their class could really challenge them so they most often drilled and randoried with each other. They looked so joyful rolling together it was like they were made to be each other’s perfect rival. They reminded Liam and I of ourselves when we started out and we found ourselves powerfully drawn to them. Within the year they were earning their blue belts, just as we were earning our purple belts and we finally gave into our desires and started attending open rolling hours when they were there so we could check them out.
07:14 Jay_Ellis: Being cocky purple belts we felt no need for subtlety. We just walked up to Jamal and Hans and asked if they wanted to roll with us and they eagerly agreed. They seemed to be an interracial gay couple like us, except they didn’t seem to know everyone could see they were tighter than just friends. This just endeared them to us even more, but it also made us ornery. As soon as we established some history of rolling with them, we purposefully boned up with them. It wasn’t hard because they pushed all the right buttons in us. They were similar in size and weight, so our structural chemistry with them was off the charts. They were really quick learners. As soon as we taught them purple belt level Kimura or Kesa technique they had integrated it and were using it to attack us. We both found them very sexy, happy warriors as well. Rolling with them was just fun and sexy as hell, so when they started throwing hard bones in response to ours we were on them to hang out with us outside jiu jitsu classes. We knew we were pushing hard on their boundaries, but not as hard as their dicks got when we rolled. Jamal said they had a great wrestling and workout set up in his garage and we met them there the very next weekend.
07:14 Jamal_Brown: [characters/|Hans_Becker]] and I have been chasing Liam and Jay ever since that day in my parent’s garage when they first exposed us to sex fighting 1 after jiu jitsu practice. They were 21 and we were 18 years old at the time, so they were three years ahead of Hans and I in jiu jitsu grappling and freestyle wrestling, three years more muscular and experienced sexually when Liam and Jay pinned Hans and I down and forced cum submissions from our horny teenage balls. When I close my eyes I can still feel Jay’s sexy older body on top of me, smell his musky stink in my nose and feel the explosion of that body rocking orgasm. It didn’t matter that they could beat us back then because they opened our eyes to our own sexuality and to a whole new way of masculine struggle.
07:14 Jay_Ellis:
07:15 Jamal_Brown: It didn’t matter that Jay and Liam had a big edge at first because our youthful dreams of one day becoming sex fighters turned my garage into a pleasure palace where we could grapple and fuck and bond. Grappling and sex fighting was all still fun and games back then and inevitably turned into a dog pile fuck fest afterwards. We became fast friends and rivals and we loved them almost as much as we loved each other. Hans and I trained our asses off with double BJJ practices a day so we could increase our ability to challenge them when they would come around for Saturday sex matches and over that first year we began seriously nipping at their heels. I think that made them love us back even more because we could all fight with full out intensity and it felt like freedom.
07:15 Jay_Ellis: For a full year the four of us made a glorious sex fighter dogpile every Saturday in Jamal’s garage. Hans and Jamal were essentially living autonomously in his parent’s house while they lived in Germany, so Liam and I basically spent our entire weekends with them. We would weight train in the mornings, grapple freestyle and jiu jitsu in the afternoons and hang out in the evenings enjoying each other’s company. We were two couples who became a foursome every weekend. We grappled and sex fought in every dyadic combination during the day and shared our beds with every dyadic combination at night. And then sometimes the four of us just felt the need to sleep together, four warrior lions in a man cave.
07:15 Jay_Ellis: Hans and Jamal were rapidly catching up to Liam and I in terms of skill and it brought us all even closer. No one could actually pin anyone else in freestyle wrestling anymore. We would just end up balls of sweat and pumped muscle. When Hans or Jamal would catch Liam or I in a submission we would adorn them with our respect and encouragement, but more often than not we would still be tapping them out and talking sexy shit in their ears. We were two couples who had become deeply bonded brothers, so it was perhaps inevitable that Liam and I would move in with Hans and Jamal for the summer. We would BBQ and have water fights in the backyard. We’d take days off and lay around in bed all day together or play video games, talking massive shit to each other like little boys. You would think with all that testosterone in one house there would be more conflict and arguing, but in truth we remained jiu jitsu cool with each other and had the best summer of our young lives. Sadly, our sex fighter heaven fell to earth when Hans received a call that his mother had fallen ill and his father asked Hans and Jamal to come be with them in Germany.
07:16 Jamal_Brown: Hans and I moved to Munich, Germany to help with the business and to care for his mother who had been diagnosed with breast cancer. They caught it early and performed a lumpectomy as well as a sentinel node biopsy to remove only a limited number of surrounding lymph nodes. When we arrived she was undergoing localized chemotherapy and had a good prognosis. What she really needed was to see her son. So we decided to stay in Munich for college, which is free to anyone in Germany, and to start our mixed martial arts training at Munich MMA. It was only a matter of time that we also started exploring the European Sex Fighting Circuit.
07:16 Jamal_Brown: On one call home we talked with Andre Jordan who puts us in touch with the champion sex fighter’s from his Team Factory. Having made a big name for themselves on the East Coast circuit, they had moved to various places in Europe to now make a name for themselves in the European Sex Fighting Circuit and they were more than happy to show us the ropes. Jake Vaughn and Sean Williams had just returned from the Punjab Region of India where they trained in traditional Kushti wrestling and sex fighting. They are now living in Marbella, Spain in the Mediterranean. mattycerone and Yuki James are in Paris where they are making the rounds of all the best Brazilian jiu jitsu schools. And finally, Christiano Braga and his boyfriend Elijah James spend most of their time in Ibiza and Mykonos. All of them have made so much money on the fight circuit that they would fly us to visit them for long weekends and then all come together and rent out an entire hotel floor and get us rooms so we can all watch them fight live on the circuit.
07:17 Jamal_Brown: They are all bigger than Hans and I, all in the heavyweight class on Team Factory, but they take a shine to us and treat us like one of the gang. It is clear that they all love each other like brothers and so we dream one day of joining the team at the Factory. Yuki is closest in size to us and is a 4th dan black belt in jiu jitsu, so we take the train to Paris as often as we can and he spends the whole time rolling with us, teaching us crazy black belt technique. We both fall in love with Christiano and Elijah because they are the most joyful and the best sex fighters and they really teach us the tricks of the trade. So we spent 3 years going to college, spending time with Han’s parents (His mom’s cancer went into complete remission), training our asses off at MMA Munich, and then flying off to beautiful places to play with and learn from these beautiful men. We must have impressed them because when I was ready to return to NYC they all called up Andre at the Factory and raved about us just as they were starting to recruit for a 175-185 lbs weight class. Hans stayed behind to spend the summer with his parents by himself, but I was missing NYC so much I even missed the salmonella and despair of LaGuardia AirPort.
07:18 Jay_Ellis: With Hans and Jamal gone, Liam and I turned our attention back to training, but this time we joined Radical MMA in midtown to gain real fight technique through mixed martial arts. At the same time we start to explore the underground fight circuit of NYC. We see some great fighters, but we also see a bunch of chumps we know we can take down, so we also set out to make a name for ourselves in the sex fight scene. Along the way we met Andre and Remy, Nate and Sean from the Factory and we all became friends, but they fought in a higher weight class, so we mostly hung with the best guys at our weight. As the years went by and we became big names on the circuit, Dre called up Liam and said he wanted to start a 175-185 lb weight class at the Factory. No way would we so no to training in a state of the arts facility with the best of the best, so we agreed to help them recruit at the new weight to fill out the membership ranks.
07:18 Jay_Ellis: Putting Liam and I in charge of recruiting at our weight was a joke somehow lost on Andre. He wanted us to “interview” and screen guys, but we already knew the ones we wanted because they were our best rivals and fuck buddies. First thing we did was head up the Hudson to hang with the Twins and they eagerly agreed. 2 In turn, we sent them off to recruit two more guys; so Jordan recruited Mike Smith 3 and Noah Recruited Damani Jones4. Liam just calls up his cousin Luis Fernando Granados and straight up says “You’re on the team.” We had a few more names on our list, but in the back of our minds was Hans and Jamal. Man, we loved those guys, so when Dre tells us they been hitting the sex fighting scene with other factory fighters in Europe and that they were moving back to home to New York, we were ecstatic. They were getting good back in Jamal’s garage, what would they be like with 3 years of European experience and hanging with the likes of Yuki James, Christiano Braga and Matty Cerone?
07:19 Jamal_Brown: I’m not home with my parents for an hour when my mothers says out of nowhere, “Oh, will you call that friend of yours, Jay something, so he will stop calling the house day and night?” I smile and say “Yes Mam,” knowing that I am just as excited to see him and Liam. I call up the number Jay left and Dre picks up. He seemed very excited as well when he told me his teammates have said great things about me and asked if I could come train with the team for a week to see if it was a good fit for everyone. Wanting to spend some time with my folks and eating my Mom’s cooking, I arranged to join them the following week. In truth, I was over the moon excited that my dream to join the factory was coming true.
07:19 Jamal_Brown: As instructed, I punch in the pass code and take the elevator up to the fifth floor where the private living quarters are and as the doors open up I see Jay standing there, sexy as hell in his Factory gym shorts and t-shirt, grinning at me. “Bitch, you got spies downstairs or what?”
07:19 Jay_Ellis: “Mother fucker, shut the fuck up. Bring it in and gimme some love, brother!”
07:19 Jamal_Brown: I drop my big duffle, step out of the elevator and we just stand there wrapped up in each other’s strong arms, hugging it out. We don’t say anything for the longest time. We don’t have too. We can feel the depth of our brotherhood in the strength of the hug and the comfort we feel in just holding each other as if we are the only two people in the world. “Fuck, I missed you man.”
07:20 Jay_Ellis: “I missed the hell outta you too, Jamal. Liam did too,” I reply and squeeze you even tighter. “And, I see all of you missed me, “I tease you and lick the salty musk of your neck.
07:20 Jamal_Brown: “Like your dick just didn't get as hard as mine, fool. Born sex fighters, you and me, and our dicks are always ready to throw down,” I tease back. Now, you gonna give me a tour or what, brother?”
07:21 Jay_Ellis: “Let’s get you settled in first.” We break apart and I step into the elevator and shoulder your duffle, then say,”Follow me.” I take you from the elevator past the lounge area and down the hall to the center of the floor. “Over there is the kitchen. Fridge and pantry get stocked as needed so eat up. On the other side is the group showers and next to it is what we like to call “The Brotherhood Bedroom” with a huge custom made bed for group sleeping, though not a lot of sleeping goes on when our teammates are feeling randy, feel me?” We walk down the hall past many private suites until we come to yours. “This suite is for you and Hans. When’s he coming back?” I ask as I walk in and set your duffle down on a chair.
07:21 Jamal_Brown: “He'll be back at the end of the summer. He wanted to spend a bit more time with his folks, but he misses you guys as much as I do,” I say as I flop down on the bed. “Damn, memory foam mattress?”
07:21 Jay_Ellis: “Sex Fighters need a good night’s rest,” I say and then scramble onto the big king size bed and, grabbing your hands, pinning them and you down into the cush of the memory foam. I press my forehead into yours and look straight into your handsome brown eyes as I hump our still hard bones together. “First day at the Factory and I am still pinning you, Mal. I’ll tell Liam and Dre your interview is complete, you’ll just never be better than me,” I smile.
07:21 Jamal_Brown: “Yeah, I may have a big surprise for you Mister Jay Ellis,” I reply and playfully roll you to your back to pin you in return. Even with all our clothes on, being close to you again brings back old memories of non-stop body contact in my old garage. I roll us to our sides and feel our arms wrap even tighter around each other. “Fuck, Jay, this feels so familiar. I love being locked up like this with you. Can we skip the tour and find a private spot where we can just get naked and pretend we are back in my garage?”
07:22 Jay_Ellis: “Bro, you’re gonna love living and training at the Factory. All we have here are places to grapple and fight naked. Members just walk around naked all the time, cus we sex fighters, I suppose. All we gotta do is take the elevator down to level 3 where we have all the sparring facilities and find the first empty mat suite, strip off and randori long as we want. Sound good?”
07:22 Jamal_Brown: I roll both of us off the bed and land on top of you, forcing a wide mouthed kiss on you and humping you forcefully, then laughing as I hear your loud moans. I jump off you to my feet, reaching a hand down to help you up. “Fuck yeah, that sounds good, bro! Let’s go have our first rematch in over 3 years!”
07:22 Jay_Ellis: I grab your hand and stand up, then bump my chest into yours. “Oh yeah, here we go, Mal vs Jay, round one!” I wrap my arm around your shoulders, and as we head out of your suite into the hallway I feel you put your arm around my shoulders as well and whisper in my ear, “I fucking love you bro.” I whisper back, “I love you to bro, but it won’t stop me from owning your ass like in the old days.”
07:22 Jamal_Brown: “Ha. Bring it bitch,” I say playfully with a huge grin as we head off to find a wrestling room. We take the elevator down to level 3 and head down a hallway and readily find a big wrestling mat room they call suites. “Fuck yeah, I am loving this place already, Jay,” I say and immediately kick off my trainers and strip off my clothes, throwing them all in a pile in the corner as I turn and face you with a huge erection crawling up my solid abs. “Look my dick missed you more than I did; think it has plans for that sweet Ass of yours.” I taunt playfully.
07:23 Jay_Ellis: Already barefoot, I strip out of my Factory t-shirt and gym shorts and face you with my own dick more boned than it’s been in months. “I know my dick has missed you too,” I grin as I walk up to you in the center of the mat and slide my thick cock alongside yours and let our shafts rub raw up and down as we look into each other's eyes like we have just discovered a new drug. “Fuck that shit feels good, bro! Ain’t gonna be no losers here today, but I will be your alpha for the day.”
07:23 Jamal_Brown: I keep rubbing our veined shafts together and love that look of sheer pleasure that beams through our eye contact. I know big parts of us would be just as happy to flip fuck the shit out of each other for the rest of the day, but our alpha natures need this battle. “Jiu Jitsu?”
07:24 Jay_Ellis: “Fuck yeah, we definitely gotta roll bro,” I reply and retreat two steps and crouch into my grappler’s stance, right foot leading. As you get in your own stance I reach out and slap shake “Go.”
07:24 Jamal_Brown: We start to circle each other, elbows in tight, with looks on our faces so fierce the uninitiated would mistake us for enemies, but we know our war faces are how we really show our balls to the wall love for each other. I feign reaching towards you for a collar and elbow lock up, but use the grips to jump my legs up around your waist in a jiu jitsu full leg guard, ankles locked behind your back, then drag your ass down into my guard, pulling your head into a right side guillotine choke. “I wanted to reintroduce you to my armpit old buddy!”
07:24 Jay_Ellis: “Aww yeah, I missed your man stink Mal, and nice jump guard baby, but what’s this sloppy ass guilly? You know imma just stick my dick in your ass from here, right?” I say as I feel my thick bone rubbing up and down your upturned ass crack. I scootch my knees up on either side of your sexy ass and push my left hand straight into your chin, forcing your head back at a wicked angle, while pushing down on your shoulder with my right to try to create space to yank my head out of your expertly applied guillotine choke; can already feel myself losing air as it pushes into my windpipe.
07:24 Jamal_Brown: One lock up in and we are already pressuring each other intensely. I know you are losing air as I fucking SUNK that guilly quick and deep before we got slippery with sweat and yet you got my neck and trap muscles screaming at me with your hand forcing my chin. “Aww hell yeah, we fighting bro!” I exclaim with the excitement of just being together in this rough randori, but I keep my head in the game by unlocking my leg guard and crawling my legs up your broad back. I unlock the guilly and as soon as your head pops up out of it I shove it up into my waiting legs to apply a fig-4 triangle and wrench you over sideways on the mat. “Now that's got to be unpleasant for you brother!”
07:25 Jay_Ellis: Mal lets me out of his guilly only to lock up a fig-4 leg triangle and drag me to the mat, his calf now slicing into my windpipe and stealing even more air. “Damn, this fucker got good!” I think to myself while cracking wise out loud. “Bitch please.” Even as my head and shoulder hit the mat I twist my shoulders to look squarely away from his body, then throw my legs over his body north/south, locking on my own fig-4 leg grip on his torso so I can use my hands to grab one both his ankles and rip his triangle apart. My cock again ends up on your ass, just in the opposite direction. “Really seems like you just want my dick bro. All you have to do is ask!”
07:25 Jamal_Brown: Jay uses his north/south leg triangle around my waist to free himself and uses his mouth to talk shit as usual, so I plant my feet in the mat and push my ass up into him fast, bucking his head backwards so I can grab it from behind with my right arm around his neck and cinch him into me. “It really seems like you just want me to choke your ass out so you can give me that hungry hole bro!”
07:25 Jay_Ellis: “Mother fucker!” I croak out as I scramble fast to unlock my fig-4 leg triangle from his waist and with my solid core roll my legs up and over, like a backwards somersault, and slide down his body and way from him so we once again in a north/south position, but now both on our bellies and our legs in opposite directions. I wrap my own right arm around his neck and we both choke the fuck outta each other as our dicks hump the mat. We both say “Tap fucker” at the same time and start laughing.
07:25 Jay_Ellis: “Fuck you?”
07:25 Jamal_Brown: “Fuck you.”
07:25 Jamal_Brown: This is our code for we clinching and we both agree to let go and start fresh on our knees. Still laughing we haul our sweaty asses back up to our knees facing each other, our cocks still hard as fuck and pointing at each other. “Nice moves,” I say honestly, but with a smirk, sweat streaming from my pits down my lats and wetting my curly pubes.
07:26 Jay_Ellis: “Fuck you. When did you get so good?” I respond impressed, but a little pissed. Mal looks at me with that smile of his and his sexy muscles rippling in his sweat and my frustration vanishes. “And you got big bro! Don't think I can take it easy on you anymore,” I tease.
07:26 Jamal_Brown: “That’s right baby, don’t take it easy on me. Bring that bad boy Jay Ellis battle plan so I can pick it apart,” I say, winking at him with a cocky smile. Our eyes lock in on each other’s and all we see is lust and aggression. Then, suddenly the game begins again and we approach each other on our knees, dicks wagging between us. We are both reaching in for wrists and elbows, but slapping the others hands away.
07:26 Jay_Ellis: I reach up and push down on your head, saying “bitch.” When you pop up I stab a leg out to my side and slide my ass and other leg towards you, pulling a tight full leg guard. I use my legs to yank your upper torso towards me as your chest slams down on mine and I wrap an arm around your head and whisper in your ear, “Coming for you garage boy.”
07:26 Jamal_Brown: I love out over heated, sweaty muscles crushed momentarily together and your man stink that has always made me crazy, but I shove my bent elbow up under your chin and shove it back to free my head and pop back upwards, our arms fighting as you keep grabbing my wrists and I keep twisting them free.
07:26 Jay_Ellis: While you are busy with my hands I used my strong legs again to yank you forwards, but just long enough to grab your right arm and open my guard so my legs can slither up your back looking for a head and arm triangle. I can feel my cock throb at the thought of me trapping you in my legs and dangling your face over my winner’s cock!
07:27 Jamal_Brown: Yuki taught me well; gave me radar for triangle attempts. As soon as you snatch my right arm I can feel your legs sliding up my back and I shoot my torso bolt upright to defend against your triangle. Then before you can re-lock your leg guard I dive both hands inside and around your thighs high up by your crotch and yank them upwards, pushing them to your chest with my chest as my cock pokes at your hole, feeling it pucker and seeing the shock in your eyes. I throw your legs right for a stacking bullfighter pass and slide down your left side gaining a solid side mount, my sweaty chest slides across yours as I reach for your far arm and lock a fig-4 grip under that elbow for an arm bar. My cock now throbbing against your side torso.
07:27 Jay_Ellis: “Damn this fucker is relentless,” I think to myself even as I immediately defend that arm by rolling towards it so I can reach my free hand over to clasp the caught hand and with the combined strength of both pull it towards me to break your arm bar attempt. I then roll to my back again but snake my leg nearest yours and catch it behind the knee, yanking your body back into alignment with mine, catching you in a half-guard. This brings our crotches tight together and our sex weapons set to grinding immediately as we fight for top rolling side to side. Our faces are so close we can feel each other’s hot breath.
07:27 Jamal_Brown: As you trap me in half-leg guard and I feel our thick cocks smash deliciously together, I reach up with both arms, snaking one under your right arm pit and the other around your head, snagging a head and arm choke and squeezing it tight, my own cheek sweaty and pressing into your cheek. I can feel you struggle in my choke as you start to lose air, but you keep fighting it even as I am now in a position to force you squarely to your back and start grinding my dick down on yours. “Aww yeah, Jay, tap out to me baby.”
07:27 Jay_Ellis: With your masculine musk in my nose and your salty sweat in my mouth, my senses begin to feel overwhelmed by your suddenly dominating presence and your sexy voice in my ear urging me to tap. I can feel the choke draining me of my air, but now I know you’ve been learning sex fighter tricks from Christiano. The choking off of my air auto-erotically increases the pleasure I feel as you rhythmically increase your grinding and start to tighten and loosen your head and arm choke. I start to growl out moans in your ear but do not tap out.
07:27 Jamal_Brown: I whisper in your ear, “Can you feel it bro? We are back in my garage. Grappling naked and smelling all the cum and sweat we soaked these mats in that summer?” I pump squeeze the choke and grind my cock base up and down your veiny shaft.
07:28 Jay_Ellis: I grit my teeth and kegel pinch off my mud as I try to dig my fingers into your choking arms. I flex my leg against yours, both caught in the half-guard, trying to rock us side by side, working every angle to free myself, but can feel my balls start to roil as you whisper in my ear with your deep voice.
07:28 Jamal_Brown: “Yeah, bro, I can remember how hot it was when you pinned me down and edged my dick until my balls gave you the cum submission you wanted, if only because then you could let your balls release and we could roll around kissing and grinding our spewing cocks together.”
07:28 Jay_Ellis: I can feel your cock grinding mine even more insistently as you keep messing with my air, but squeezing it off more and more before letting a trickle back into my lungs. My balls start to fully boil as you time travel us back to your garage and into our original bonding days of sex battle and brotherhood.
07:28 Jamal_Brown: Our sweaty bodies meld together as they rub together and I work you auto-erotically, trapped in my choke and your half-guard. “Awww yeah, Jay, all you gotta do is let go sexy,” I growl in your ear as I grind down on you even harder and feel my owl balls start to churn. “Gimme your cum brother, and I will give you mine!”
07:28 Jay_Ellis: The heat of our frotting friction and the mingling of our man stink, the feeling of being dominated and controlled by my fighter brother for the first time, the intimacy of our entwined muscles and our faces so close all combine to bring me all the way to the edge. The closer I get to unconsciousness the more my balls boil and suddenly I am in ecstasy and my cock is shooting hot ropes of cum up between our bodies. The orgasm lasts forever as it shoots pleasure throughout my entire body.
07:29 Jamal_Brown: I feel you explode from my sexual jiu jitsu attack, but I love my brother so much I close my eyes, surrendering to my own lust and desire until I am exploding ropes of cum between us as well. As I release the choke I wrap my arms around you and send us rolling and humping our way across the mat suite. We kiss wide mouthed and passionately as we cock fuck each other until we are both fully cum milked and physically drained, laying there with my brother, in my new home, knowing that this will never be the end of our sexual battles, only the beginning.
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Published: 2022-08-12, viewed 98 times.
Noah Oliver
2022-08-13 09:01MMMMSo Jamal, now both of us have take Jay's seed from him :-) Time I take yours!
Great story guys! I am proud of our weight class! We are sexy action starts who love to fuck! :-)
Nate Rogers
2022-08-13 06:55Wow, you guys at 175-185 are making me want to shrink down and play with you all. I can feel a real flow from the beginning of your weight class all the way through Hans and Jamal's back story to this coming of age teammate story. Well written, well conceptualized and sexy.
Hans Becker
2022-08-13 05:51Ohhhhhhh Mal my lover. You are so strong hot and a kick ass wrestler! Now that’s the way to handle things and make an entrance. All our EU training brought to bare on our old friend. Nice work. Hold down the fort, I’ll be there with you soon. I’m so proud of you.
Jay, I’m coming for you soon!
Love Hans
Apollo Dante
2022-08-13 04:26The Factory Role Play bouts are really something special