7.9/1033 votes#1 - 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.
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7.3/1019 votes#2 - 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.
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10.0/101 votes#3 - 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.
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7.5/1015 votes#4 - 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.
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7.1/1016 votes#5 - 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.
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7.1/1018 votes#6 - 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.
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8.0/1020 votes#7 - 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.
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7.4/1015 votes#8 - 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.
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NaN/100 votes#9 - 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.
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- 7.5/1023 votes
#10 - 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.
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- 7.9/1019 votes
#11 - Life After Wrestling
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 7/31/2019
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- 6.4/1014 votes
#12 - Making a Wrestler
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 7/31/2019
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An exploration of the wrestling world's underground. Traveling from First Nations communities in rural Manitoba to Mexico's Lucha Libre scene in Juarez, the series sees...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Best New Talent in America" is the best rated episode of "The Wrestlers" season 1. It scored 7.9/10 based on 33 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/22/2019. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "The Changing Face of Wrestling".