New Viceland series THE WRESTLERS (Begins May 22)

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

2 episodes this week.

1 with The Fighting Cholitas from Bolivia and a Lucha one with Fenix and PentaGOAT.

The up and coming luchadors having matches at the stoplight was

I would love a second season of this show if they can find more scenes/ promotions to cover.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

 

[Hey_zeus]

Just watched the Stardom and Death match joints. This series is dope. I love how culturally important wrestling is globally. The last true regional art form.

 

[Vic Damone. Jr]

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Caught the DDT episode yesterday.

They captured the vibe perfectly. It's basically varying degrees of 'What The Fukk?

Damien: ....and now they're raping a man

Hanae the Superfan: ......Yes

They brought out Dieno's mom and Takagi's wife as weapons in the deathmatch

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Bruh - the opening of the Voodoo Wrestling episode

Queen Shakira >>>>>>> The Undertaker

97 Paul Heyman would have been at this.

The conflict between Christianity and voodoo is really interesting on it's own. When you throw wrestling fukkery in there too




The procession to the arena is man walking to the match through the streets and a crowd of fans following

@ Damien's default expression being . They worked him from beginning to end - Made a doc about their doc and even had him give a speech at a megachurch.

Some of the wrestlers' life stories though.

Best episode of the series.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

 

[HollywoodP]

Mayu Iwatani's story
Those Bolivian Cholitas
Those Luchador's wrestling for change in the street.

Life is hard brehs.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

The MVP one was really good. As was the Stardom one. The death match one was very hard to watch