She's been wrestling for about seven years and says matches can get "very, very violent and very, very real".
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There are so many margins for error, for things to go wrong," Mccrae says. WrestleMen Streaming Videos Check out some of these HOT wrestling video clips below Download Windows Media Player 9.0 for great quality video Chuck (from Matroom Wrestling and Wrestling in the Hills of PA) suffers in Canadian Rays camel sleeper for the Stronghold film at Hillside 2005. This is no sport for the squeamish - or the easily scared. In Australia only a small number, perhaps 30 people, count themselves as deathmatch wrestlers, but overseas, in countries like Japan, Mexico, the US and UK, that figure is significantly larger. Matches last for around 20 minutes, until a wrestler either pins their opponent's shoulder to the ground for three seconds, taps out in submission or is knocked out.
Slam their body onto upended thumbtacks? Of course!Īndrew Mccrae has been wrestling for nearly 20 years and says deathmatch welcomes people of all walks of life. Stick wooden skewers into their head? Sure thing. Smash a fluorescent light tube over an opponent's head? You've got it. In a deathmatch, wrestlers fight in a ring where ropes might be substituted for barbed wire, and pull moves that are part choreographed and part influenced by what the raucous crowd is cheering for. WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS IMAGES OF VIOLENCE THAT SOME MAY FIND DISTRESSING. "For us, if you're there, you're already one of us," he says. 3 Hold these poses for about 2 minutes before going out to the bars (or doing anything stressful). Its wrestlers - decorated with barbed wire scars, thrown through the air and bleeding through their costumes - are diverse in gender and cultural background.Īll, says Mccrae, are welcome in this subculture of a subculture. 2 Stretch out in your seat or cross your legs and put your hands behind your head. ( Supplied: Deathmatch Downunder)ĭeathmatch has reckoned with movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter to evolve into a scene setting a new benchmark in sports inclusivity. Intergender matches are common in deathmatch wrestling.