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VICELAND'S 'THE WRESTLERS' DEBUTS TONIGHT, COMPLETE DETAILS ON ALL EPISODES THIS SEASON

By Mike Johnson on 2019-05-22 18:59:00

Viceland's newest pro wrestling documentary series The Wrestlers will debut today, featuring an episode focused on EVOLVE and Gabe Sapolsky.

Promotional material for the episode notes:

"THE BEST NEW TALENT IN AMERICA"  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.

The upcoming schedule for episodes of "The Wrestlers" will feature:

5/29 "THE CHANGING FACE OF WRESTLING"  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.

6/5 "JAPAN’S FINEST WRESTLERS" – 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.

6/12 "DEATH MATCH" -- 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.

6/19 - Two Episodes

"POWERFUL WOMEN OF WRESTLING" -- 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.

“THE NEXT WAVE OF MEXICAN LUCHADORES" -- 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.

6/26 - TWO EPISODES

"THE CRAZIEST WRESTLING IN JAPAN" -- 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.

"WRESTLING ON CANADA’S RESERVES" -- 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.

7/3 *TWO EPISODES 

"VOODOO WRESTLING IN THE CONGO" -- 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.

"BODY SLAMMING HOMOPHOBIA IN MEXICO" -- 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.

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