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Season 1

7.9/1035 votes
The Best New Talent in America
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/22/2019
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.2/1023 votes
The Changing Face of Wrestling
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/29/2019
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
10.0/101 votes
Japan's Finest Wrestlers
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/5/2019
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.2/1018 votes
Death Match
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/12/2019
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.4/1016 votes
The Powerful Women of Wrestling
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/19/2019
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.8/1021 votes
The Next Wave of Mexican Luchadores
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/19/2019
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.8/1024 votes
The Craziest Wrestling In Japan
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 6/26/2019
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.8/1016 votes
Wrestling On Canada's Reserves
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/26/2019
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votes
Voodoo Wrestling
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 7/3/2019
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.5/1026 votes
Body Slamming Homophobia In Mexico
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/3/2019
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.9/1020 votes
Life After Wrestling
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 7/31/2019
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Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.4/1015 votes
Making a Wrestler
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 7/31/2019
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Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown