The Best Of 2008: The Online Video Sites:
Narrowing down our list of favorite adult film stars was difficult enough but when it came to compiling our list on favorite online video sites and stars it was impossible. There were so many great sites, so many wonderfully sexy guys, and some pretty amazing videos that we would have “top ten” lists in all sorts of categories from now until the end of 2009. That said, we will have several entries recapping the best of 2008 in the online video genre and like last year we hope to include all our favorites with our OWN categories. This way, as many sites as possible get their due…as follows:
Best Comeback: Mighty Men. The site that gave career boosts to Reese Rideout & Chris Rockway hadn’t really gone away but it re-emerged in 2008 as a “starmaker” by providing a stepping stone to Vince Ferelli and introducing us to Leo Giamani. Want to see who’ll be a future star? Then check out Jon Royce’s Mighty Men to get the first look.
It’s so nice that Jack Manly mentioned us, much less give MightyMen a best comeback nod. You know those California sites like to ignore the east coast sites. What Jack gave us credit for - the 2006 introductions to Reese Rideout and Chris Rockway. The story has been repeated here on MightyMen a million times but we had the 2nd porn outting for Reese in January 2006, after his work with Body Image Productions, and the very first outting with Rockway in July 2006.
2007 wasn’t a good year for me to introduce the world to any big new porn stars, but 2008 was a great year. On June 14, 2008, MightyMen.com published the first nude photo spread of Leo Giamani, which, of course, I shot and a few days after that, jake Cruise released his first video, then Massive Studio and so on. Our Leo Giamani video didn’t come until a few weeks later. Now Leo is a big star working with Falcon Studios.
Then in October, 2008, the first big bottoming role for Vince Ferelli, a muscle body builder guy who has gone on to become a big star. Vince got the daylights fucked out of him in “Ooops” by Robert Van Damme. So yes, 2008 was a great year. Hopefully so will 2009. I’ve been at this since 1993 and I’m confident we’ll find a few more stars this year. But whatever you do, don’t tell anyone that Reese and Rockway modeled here in 2006. And a special shout out to Rusty Stevens who did a great job fucking Leo Giamani. Rusty had little notice and flew across country to be the first guy to fuck Leo Giamani.
Leo Giamani's big cock gets sized up by Rusty Stevens
Let’s not forget Straight Hunk Angelo DiMarco and College Jock Mike Manly, two other 2008 hotties. And Sean Steel’s Straight as they Cum jack off with Jack Stone and Don Snow.
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Here on the east coast we woke up to a nice new year suprise. Popular Calfiornia based website JackManly.Com named Mr. Rockway “Man of the Year”.
Muscle Hunk Mr. Rockway
The summer of 2006 a yet unnamed first time amateur flew to the east coast and we shot photos and video for a few days. His first porn outting. This unnamed hunk had sent me an e-mail with a photo attached and said that he was interested in becoming a male model. When I saw the photo attached to the e-mail I was completely blown away. It was only one photo of him shirtless but it was enough to make me think I was dreaming. I had never seen such a hot guy. A few e-mails went back and forth and a few phone calls. Most models that apply are not that serious but Rockway was serious and he had a unique business sense to him. Somethng I hadn’t seen since working with Rideout earlier that year and haven’t seen again until working with Ferelli in 2008.
Long story short, he got on an airplane and few to D.C. and it was the most fun I have ever had working with any model. I knew this guy could be huge if he wanted. Photographers can only do so much, it is up to the model. Often I will help models find other work, but in this guy’s case it wasn’t necessary. He had already taken care of those arrangements himself. The only way I could help was to give him a great porn name. Just take one good look at his rock hard hunky body and the name “Rockway” came to mind. Great choice, huh?
Model Rockway has a Morning Boner
Hopefully Mr. Rockway continues to do great work in the future and has many more years of success. I’d love to see him work with Falcon Studios and/or Colt and get into those big production movies, like Leo, Cory and Vince have done.
Also, best wishes in the future to JackManly.Com. In my opinion the best porn news site on the web. It took a lot of guts for you to mention in your press release that Rockway had anything to do with me or MightyMen.com. Let’s just hope your tires aren’t slashed.
Other MightyMen.com alumni awards for 2008. Reese Rideout was named Men Magazine Man of the year and Rockway was named runner up. Leo Giamani was named QueerClick.Com’s man of the year
Vince Ferelli gets fucked by Robert Van Damme
In other MightyMen.Com alumni news, Super Hot Body Builder Vince Ferelli is on the west coast today preparing to shoot a scene with another MIghtyMen.Com alumni, who’s name will remain unmentioned until after the scene is shot. It will be the hottest pairing of MightyMen.Com alumni since Leo Giamani got his ass rammed by Hottest Man of the Decade Chris Rockway on another site. I have never seen any of Randy’s videos, but I sure hope Rockway fucked the daylights out of Giamani.
Here’s a clue - if Vince is the hunk on the bottom today, it’ll be the biggest cock he’s had since getting fucked by Robert Van Damme in “Ooops”. Maybe they’ll send me cell phone photos.
As previously reported, Vince will return next week to shoot “Ooops 2, Vince’s Bad” where he gets approached by new cummer Rock Logan. Rock wants to become a straight porn star but forgets to mention to Vince the part about being straight. I’ve already warned Vince that he’s going to have to carry this video since he is now the veteran and Rock Logan is the new boy on the block.
Since this is my development blog and no one sees it, I get to write whatever I want. Reese Rideout was named Men Magazine’s Man of the Year and Chris Rockway came in second. Well, I do not want to take anything away from Reese because he is a MightyMen.com male model alumni just like Chris Rockway. And Reese is without a doubt the best performer in the business. So, I am officially naming Chris Rockway as Hottest Man of the Decade. A lot of you might say the decade is not over yet. I don’t care. It’s not likely anyone is going to come along as hot as Chris Rockway. Below is a photo from Chris’ first photo shoot from 2006 when he came and stayed with me a few days. Chris, you are still my favorite of all the MightyMen.Com alumni.
Chris Rockway, hottest man of the decade
Chris, good luck to you in the future and thank you for coming by MightyMen.Com on your way to super stardom. I hope to see you doing a lot of great work in the coming years.
Congratulations to two MightyMen.Com male models Reese Rideout and Chris Rockway, both of whom I had the priledge of working with in 2006. Reese Rideout first contacted me in late 2005 about a modeling job on my MightyMen.Com site. He was brand new at the time and had little or no experience being in front of the camera.
Nude Male Model Reese Rideout
Around the end of January 2006, Reese flew across country to my east coast studio and shot his first hard core video. At the time he wasn’t ready to fuck guy but he was willing to get a blow job and cum on a guy’s face. I was just happy to have such a great first time model. Reese was shockingly ready for the camera. No hesitation. He understood direction and concept. When you work with so many first time models (as I do) it can frequently be hard to get the across to a model the concept of performing. Not Reese Rideout. He had it in him.
What a lot of people do not know is that I called or e-mailed three porn producers including Chi Chi LaRue and Randy Blue to tell them about this new star I was working with. Randy called back immediately and he I shot him Reese’s photos before we were done with the shoot. The rest is history and no surprise to me that Reese has become such a successful porn model and performer.
MightyMen.Com star Reese Rideout
Chris Rockway nude on MightyMen.Com
Chris Rockway contacted me around early July 2006. He was eager to get started modeling and at first Rockway wanted to shoot underwear sessions. When I told him I shot porn Chris continued to show interested. After a few phone conversations Chris Rockway was on his way to my east coast shooting location. Of course, one of the first things we had to do was come up with a name for him. I wanted a name that indicated hardness, like his body. A name that reflected being solid as a rock. Hence, Rockway.
Rockway, at the time, was only comfortable shooting solo jack off videos. I was only more than happy to be the first to work with Chris Rockway and congratulate Chris and Reese on their successful two years in the modeling business.