Paid Members Surf Digby Posted March 2, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 The fucker eats glass as a sideshow attraction too. Eating the glass from a lightbulb/tube is easy enough (it was one of my party pieces when I was young and stupid), but the chemicals in the flourescent tubes will have a serious effect on your health. It's like dehydrated Moj. Â It's such a weird, grotty little subculture, I'd love someone to do a proper documentary about it. It's a shame Louis Theroux's already done wrestling, as he'd be a good fit, although the perfect call would be Werner Herzog. Werner's got a dim view of normal wrestling though, let alone this shit. Ruby Wax touched the surface of this once, but she got freaked out quite early during a "normal" hardcore match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted March 2, 2012 Moderators Share Posted March 2, 2012 Ruby Wax touched the surface of this once, but she got freaked out quite early during a "normal" hardcore match. Â I remember that. Strawberry Fields put candles on her nipples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bellenda Carlisle Posted March 2, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 Ruby Wax touched the surface of this once, but she got freaked out quite early during a "normal" hardcore match. Â I remember that. Strawberry Fields put candles on her nipples. Â I remember that too, my mother was appalled. Â He looks fucking gone doesn't he? from what I've been looking at the last few days I can't imagine that glass eating fucker in normal life at all. Â Quite comically, he's married. Â oh god, the poor woman! Does he have a day job? I'm fascinated by this cunt since I saw that spot of him laughing after having the kenzans torn out of his head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rule One Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 oh god, the poor woman! Does he have a day job? I'm fascinated by this cunt since I saw that spot of him laughing after having the kenzans torn out of his head. Â I honestly don't know but I'm guessing his BJPW is his main source of income. He's been wrestling since '95. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted March 2, 2012 Moderators Share Posted March 2, 2012 I wouldn't say he's been wrestling, more like doing a sideshow... Â See, that's what I don't get. I'd probably not mind deathmatches if it was all about when the big twatting with something mad happens. The tease is what makes things great. Not when it's over and over again and it's like a forearm, only shitter and dafter. Â I've enjoyed a few BJPW matches, but those are the ones about the tease which build the tension before the big bump or whatever. What's the point of just coming out twatting someone in the head with a light tube when you can build to it and get a better reaction? That's what a top wrestler would do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted March 2, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 And why is there so much no-selling/underselling? These are supposed to be DEATHmatches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Chris B Posted March 2, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 I'd never thought about Deathmatches as being more about BDSM than about wrestling. It actually makes an enormous amount of sense. The idea that people aren't really doing it for the payday, and it's not really about being good wrestlers. It's about showing you can take it further than someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bellenda Carlisle Posted March 2, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 (edited) I'd never thought about Deathmatches as being more about BDSM than about wrestling. It actually makes an enormous amount of sense. The idea that people aren't really doing it for the payday, and it's not really about being good wrestlers. It's about showing you can take it further than someone else.  It's a bit gay innit?  I can't imagine what it's like when the guys are discussing the spots before the match  "Then I'll take a bunch of wooden skewers and shove them really hard into the top of your head, then bash them in further and they'll fan out like a hedgehog" "That sounds awesome! How about then I take syringes and slowly plunge them into the bottom of your feet?" "Aww dude fuck yeah! Have you had an AIDS test?" "No, you?" "Of course not man" Edited March 2, 2012 by Steve 'Big' Jobs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted March 2, 2012 Awards Moderator Share Posted March 2, 2012 (edited) I can't stand deathmatches, but I've read this thread anyway and it's been quite interesting. Â I have a money related question as well, though it's not about the performers - I'm wondering how much it must cost the promotions to buy in all the weapons for one of these tournament shows? The cost of all these light-tubes, panes of glass, breeze blocks, barbed wire etc etc etc, it must amount to a fair bit by the end, and I can't conceive how any of these shows can make anyone any money. Edited March 2, 2012 by HarmonicGenerator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted March 2, 2012 Author Share Posted March 2, 2012 Places like IWA use burned out light tubes that are donated. Fans bring a lot of the gimmicks to the shows, some even going as far as to build special pit things, laced with glass and barbed wire etc. I assume the wrestlers themselves bring a lot of their own speciality weapons that they Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 My question would be - what do the fans get out of it? I mean, clearly it's not wrestling in anything more than the most superficial way, so they're not getting the traditional enjoyment. And it's obvious that what these guys is doing isn't "fake" and must legitimately hurt, wound and potentially permanently injure. So it's not even the sort of fun you might get from watching a slasher/torture porn movie where you know it's fake blood and special effects. Â What you're left with is, people enjoying watching people hurt themselves and bleed. Which is pretty fucking weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bellenda Carlisle Posted March 2, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 What you're left with is, people enjoying watching people hurt themselves and bleed. Which is pretty fucking weird. Â You say that like it's some sort of revelation you've worked out, everyone who knows what deathmatches are knows that's exactly what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted March 2, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 I'd never thought about Deathmatches as being more about BDSM than about wrestling. It actually makes an enormous amount of sense. Â It doesn't really. BDSM has a sexual element, deathmatch wrestling doesn't. Or at least I think it doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Chris B Posted March 2, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 I'd never thought about Deathmatches as being more about BDSM than about wrestling. It actually makes an enormous amount of sense. Â It doesn't really. BDSM has a sexual element, deathmatch wrestling doesn't. Or at least I think it doesn't. Â I've been around fetish clubs when floggings/beatings etc go on - I know there's a sexual component, but it often doesn't involve any kind of actual sex or even nudity. Â You've never seen the fetishists that get off on how hard a beating they can take? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 What you're left with is, people enjoying watching people hurt themselves and bleed. Which is pretty fucking weird. Â You say that like it's some sort of revelation you've worked out, everyone who knows what deathmatches are knows that's exactly what it is. Â Oh, ok. I didn't realise that you were comfortable with that. For me at least, it seems like something to be worried about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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