Back in 1998 MightyMen.Com was more of a promotional site for porn stars, porn companies, new video releases, host site for the Men in Video Awards and online ventures. I wasn’t producing any videos at that point. Just a lot of photos, parties, events, photos of our members, etc.
If memory serves me correct, these photos are from a party at Probe night club in Los Angeles. Ryker had left the porn business in 1996 (I think) and returned in 1998. The master mind behind his entire return was the owner of Probe night club. I was privy to the news that Ken Ryker would make a return to porn but was sworn to secrecy until the deal was cut. Mickey Skee made the announcement in April 1998 while at a book store signing for his new book on Ken Ryker. Once I was given the go-ahead, I uploaded a mostly pre-written release, a link to that original release can be found on my ammen.net site.
Ryker’s return within hours became the buzz of the gay porn industry. The big question was who would bottom for Ryker and take that big cock. Another gay-to-pay porn star (I can’t remember his name, I think it was Lex Baldwin although I could be wrong) was originally slated to play the bottom role. He backed out about 10 days before the shooting and Talvin DeMachio’s roommate Joey Hart was selected to bottom for Ryker. Joey was an unknown and later told me he was very excited when he got the news he would bottom for Ryker. Joey also told me he would practice with a huge dildo 10 days before getting fucked by Ryker to get his hole stretched out. (I remembered Joey’s word 10 years later when I was preparing Leo Giamani to bottom for the first time).
In 1998 Ryker mania was back on. He had a website that featured photos and Ryker news and even a contest where a fan would win a date with Ken Ryker (one of the photos below).
I thought I would re-introduce some of these old MightyMen.Com photos to the public in the gallery below. These shots are from an event in 1998 where Ken Ryker was introducing a new online venture that featured guys in a studio jacking off, which is common place today but it wasn’t in 1998. Joey Hart was in attendance, he used to stay at my place when he came to the West Coast. The winner of the win a date with Ken Ryker is also featured. There is also a photo of Will Clark kissing the new editor of Unzipped and Men Magazine (remember, this was 1998). 10 years ago I, along with the owner of Probe and others would put on a lot of porn events that I photographed and those photos would end up in Unzipped and Men Magazine.
Big Cock Porn Star Ken Ryker
Current porn site reviewer and write, Jack Manly, will remember this night as Ken Ryker tried to hit on him. It was a little prank I put Ken up to. hahaha. Oh, and there is another faded porn star named Tommy Cruise in one of the photos. Tommy took that name because he thought he looked like the real thing. You be the judge. Sorry for the small photos. You see, in 1998 we had to conserve on server disk space and photo size. Most people were still using 24k or 56k dial up modems back then.
I’ll be posting quite a few more of these old photo sets as the programmers are making me get all the junk off of MIghtyMen.Com for the new redesign. It would be a shame to have these photos go to waste. So much history.
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