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The Wrestlers

Season 1

2019 · 12 episodes

  1. 1. The Best New Talent in America

    2019-05-22

    Few people have had a larger impact on pro wrestling than veteran promoter Gabe Sapolsky. Damian follows Gabe's crew on an American tour as he trains the next crop of superstars.

  2. 2. The Changing Face of Wrestling

    2019-05-29

    Damian documents the handoff of one generation to the next by visiting a famed wrestler at the close of his career, and profiling the rise of one of wrestling's newest stars.

  3. 3. Japan's Finest Wrestlers

    2019-06-05

    Japan boasts the finest women's wrestling in the world. Damian visits Tokyo to learn what makes these women so good and meet the upcoming generation of female wrestlers.

  4. 4. Death Match

    2019-06-12

    On the fringe of wrestling is Deathmatch, where wrestlers battling with barbed wire, razor blades and broken glass, challenge the idea that wrestling is fake.

  5. 5. The Powerful Women of Wrestling

    2019-06-19

    Damian travels to Florida and Bolivia to learn how women wrestlers around the world are using professional wrestling to battle inequality, misogyny, and domestic abuse.

  6. 6. The Next Wave of Mexican Luchadores

    2019-06-19

    As Mexico copes with an ever-present drug war and Trump’s Wall, Lucha Libre is more popular than ever, and some wrestlers see Lucha as their ticket to America.

  7. 7. The Craziest Wrestling In Japan

    2019-06-26

    Invisible wrestlers, blow-up dolls, and waterpark matches: welcome to the weird and wild world of Japan's DDT, the world's strangest wrestling promotion.

  8. 8. Wrestling On Canada's Reserves

    2019-06-26 · 60m

    Damian heads to northern Quebec to join a crew of wrestlers who brave weather and isolation to bring professional wrestling to remote and disadvantaged First Nations communities.

  9. 9. Voodoo Wrestling

    2019-07-03

    In war-torn Congo, a cultural collision has made one of wrestling's strangest subgenres: voodoo wrestling, in which suplexes and powerbombs mix with hexes and deadly black magic.

  10. 10. Body Slamming Homophobia In Mexico

    2019-07-03

    Exoticos, male wrestlers who embrace the feminine and dress in drag inside the ring, have been defying the macho side of Lucha Libre for decades.

  11. 11. Life After Wrestling

    2019-07-31

  12. 12. Making a Wrestler

    2019-07-31

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