The Wrestlers

The Wrestlers is a documentary wrestling series produced by Viceland. It was ten-episode series with the first episode debuting on May 22, 2019.
==Description==
From the bright lights of Florida to the spotless streets of Japan and the chaos of the Congo, Damian Abraham dives headlong into the fascinating ways cultures around the world have embraced one of America's greatest exports: professional wrestling.
===Season 1 (2019)===
No.	Title 	Original air date	Notes
1 	The Best New Talent in America 	May 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.
2 	The Changing Face of Wrestling 	May 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.
3 	Japan’s Finest Wrestlers 	June 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.
4 	Death Match 	June 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.
5 	Powerful Women of Wrestling 	June 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.
6 	The Next Wave of Mexican Luchadores	June 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.
7 	The Craziest Wrestling in Japan 	June 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.
8 	Wrestling on Canada’s Reserves 	June 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.
9 	Voodoo Wrestling in the Congo 	July 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.
10 	Body Slamming Homophobia in Mexico 	July 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.”
==External links==
* Profile
Category:The Wrestlers