In The Ring with Mexico's Ultra-Violent Wrestlers
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In the early 2000s, a Mexican professional wrestler named “Crazy Boy” took a trip to check out an extreme, violent offshoot of the sport that was blowing up in Japan. When he got back, he started working to introduce the world of “lucha libre” to a fighting style with a little more edge-where wrestlers use knives, chairs, fluorescent lightbulbs, and high-risk maneuvers to leave their opponents as bloodied as possible.
VICE Mexico met up with Crazy Boy to find out how his own league, Total Ultra-Violent Disaster, or DTU, is spearheading the extreme pastime in his home country, catching a no-holds-barred match that left the ring covered in blood and broken glass.
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Damn Action Bronson is getting worked in the thumbnail
@JuanAndDone
5 жыл бұрын
😂😂
@g0thbacon
5 жыл бұрын
Fr
@dro_7604
5 жыл бұрын
Rob Cleozier thought the same shit lol. He should’ve of been part of this somehow, since he loves wrestling.
@GSKStarfighter
5 жыл бұрын
Bulldozer Matt Tremont :D
@owenkorando9595
5 жыл бұрын
@@dro_7604 fr noice
6:42 I never expect him to perform the suicide dive, I'm impressed.
@UltraViolentHippie
2 жыл бұрын
RIP Ovett
If only more people watched Vice documentaries with an open mind before simply judging the title and then leaping to the comment section. Anyway, time to start the video.
@fantana9481
5 жыл бұрын
their page put too much content farm, and they make the guangzhou engineer facing law issue.
Those fluorescent light bulbs are so toxic
@martystechtips
5 жыл бұрын
Yep, mercury.
@samahell9488
5 жыл бұрын
They are just stupid . How desesparate or stupid they are to live like that ?
@hisasabduh7611
5 жыл бұрын
it depends on how much you comparing it to yourself i guess.. i'm just saying :)
@michaelmccarthy4615
5 жыл бұрын
No they aren't, or I guess it depends on who makes them for what market... in the US they are safe, of course
@sevnlight6313
5 жыл бұрын
Life is toxic.... All the crap the FDA allows in your food is nothing to sneeze at. Cancer deaths will double in 2019
Say what you will, those kids being classically trained is so cool Pops teaching the new generation
I cannot say I'm very fond of wrestle but I have to admit that seeing these passionnate people is fascinating. You can truly see the love coming out of their eyes. *PS: TIME TO INVEST YOUR PESOS ON THE LAMP MARKET"*
@billybobjoetheprofessional3890
5 жыл бұрын
Quick Fix You can see the blood coming out of their eyes is what I believe you meant there
when did action bronson become a mexican wrestler?
@ohsoSUPREME
5 жыл бұрын
7:43 LMAOOO
@MariaRamirez-ns2eq
5 жыл бұрын
W
@sevnlight6313
5 жыл бұрын
Good fighters have no limits or boundaries. They seek the passion of fighting wherever the sunset takes them
@crevice5369
4 жыл бұрын
@@sevnlight6313 pro wrestling isnt fighting. its a preformance
There's a documentary about a guy named Sick Nick Mondo called the Trade. The stuff those guys were doing in that one was way more extreme than what these guys are doing. It's a cool movie.
The reporter is so freaking beautiful
@BoiledMilkSteak7
5 жыл бұрын
You have very low standards
@karanvarma4843
5 жыл бұрын
David Sanchez no she's not wtf is wrong with you.
@Sleepingcoffee979
5 жыл бұрын
50 people agreed with you ???? Are they blind ???
@RebornLegacy
5 жыл бұрын
She's definitely out of your league.
@davidsanchez178
5 жыл бұрын
SunDown , I had to go back to watch the video again just to see the reporter again. You are absolutely right SunDown ; she is pretty and yes, beautiful is a big word. So I take my comment back,she is not beautiful
Lucha Underground been doing this year hybrid style of “Lucha-Japanese death match” For years now. Lots of people are into it, but it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
Im in love with a vice reporter
The hits are not going to kill them , but the mercury of the fluorescent lamps will.
I might not be able to get back into wrestling anymore (I tried my damnedest earlier this year but it's just not as interesting), but as far as back stage aspects I can't get enough. It's so interesting to see what happens when they aren't pretending to murder each other... Or when wrestlers actually _do_ wanna kill each other back stage.
@thuggathuggababy
5 жыл бұрын
PixelReviver you’re referring to wwe right? If so same thing but I was able to me more engaged knowing all the backstage drama secrets etc. and am slowly getting back into it
Ciclope is one of my all time favorite wrestlers 🔥
WOW that's so violent!
Luche libre is wrestling turned up to 11 with comic book hero's added Japan: *let's make anime fights real!* Now we have this
After many years, I'm seeing men with that SPIRIT....
Al fin una en español maldita sea VICE
Poor kid at 7:08
@Achooo0
3 жыл бұрын
Years of training dude they’re fine
7:07 should have been the thumbnail. the exact reaction i had when i was watching this video.
Its unfortunate that DTU in Mexico isn't doing well, stiffing wrestlers pay, putting wrestlers in dangerous hotels, and general lack of respect from it's owners. Top independent wrestlers like Conner Claxton and Lufisto have had some horrible tales to tell. Claxton is one of the founders of GCW the top deathmatch company on the states. Lufisto has been battling Cervical Cancer and got her big break doing Intergender death matches.
Please stop the Xenophobia in the comments and let’s just be open minded about different ways of life.
@boombapdoom493
5 жыл бұрын
Teyquerisi
@interloper3138
4 жыл бұрын
Ivan xx stfu
What people don't know is that most of these wrestlers are rocket scientists and university professors in real life.
ITS MEXICAN VERSION OF CZW..!!
@boombapdoom493
5 жыл бұрын
Teyquerisi
@kikefy
4 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@themuiz9671
3 жыл бұрын
@Kevin Delgado I thought Japanese did it first
That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolent.
you haven't Heard of Combat Zone Wrestling? Early years it was ultra violent.
@julcan1987
5 жыл бұрын
VICE did do an episode on CZW.
@MarsVoltaire
5 жыл бұрын
@@julcan1987: good to know. I'll check it out. Hopefully they do one on House of Hardcore.
@CrownlessKingIX
5 жыл бұрын
CZW is a fairly new organization compared to when Deathmatch wrestling came about. Over in Japan, IWA was holding the Tournament of Death that had people like Terry Fuck, Cactus Jack, Terry Gordy, and a lot of others. I would be interested in seeing something about the actual start of this style of wrestling though.
@MardyBum100291
5 жыл бұрын
And yet it's still over 15 years old. IWA would run Kawasaki Stadium, sure, but WING were also running the deathmatch scene in Japan for a good while, IWA had the notoriety because of the KOTDM that had the brutal Cactus/Funk final, but nobody really knows any of the stuff that IWA did outside of that tournament, it was more the American influence and names in it that really gave it the star power.
@Doskharaas
5 жыл бұрын
MardyBum100291 and guys don’t forget old FMW
pretty interesting how the hardcore style has evolved and changed more and more (It may have started down south in the States but, Onita & FMW pretty much lit the match that would become the boom period of Pro Wrestling in the mid to late 90’s without Onita there would be no ECW, without no ECW no WWF Attitude era without FMW & Onita there would have been no NWO invasion since WCW ripped-off FMW and there “Funk Masters of Wrestling invasion angle
@hhhsuncle537
4 жыл бұрын
Coolness is what the hardcore style brings to the business
Still better than Roman Reigns
@HeavyMetalBeliever
5 жыл бұрын
Everything is better than Roman Reigns.
@nostalogic3419
2 жыл бұрын
Not now .
The American tiny catch events are even more rough than this. But this look cool.
I like it when Vice covers entertainers.
went to the comments just to see if the action Bronson thing was mentioned
It's not as bad as the one in Delaware
@jmoz9305
5 жыл бұрын
Czw
@chemicsky2772
5 жыл бұрын
I remember when they put the guy in his grave but still its pretty much the same
Nacho libre
@elmerdaserdmannchen2604
5 жыл бұрын
That's what they called me in middle school.
@julianpizano5586
5 жыл бұрын
NNNNAAAAAAAAACCCCCCHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
There is no english subtitle?
3:21 how does that happen? it's like when you stay in water too long and your finger looks like that
@reverendd-von183
3 жыл бұрын
it's scar tissue from blading
Thought that was Action Bronson in the thumbnail.
I thought the thumbnail was action Bronson haha
This makes WWE look like 'Wrestling With Ex- homosexuals.'
@moneysigndon
5 жыл бұрын
😂
@wholetthedogsout2941
5 жыл бұрын
Loathsome Lockdown not a ex-homosexual just a fight!
@THESCENECREATORS
5 жыл бұрын
Even wwe is fake
@mithrandell9239
5 жыл бұрын
Captain Heinz And this isn’t?
@Donnie-sg2cj
5 жыл бұрын
THE SCENE CREATORS No shit, Sherlock. Just like every tv show and movie you love.
Mucha Lucha! It's a way of life!
Bro what's the reporters name or social media
For anyone who doesn’t know Ciclope wrestled in WCW
lol why was jimmy loyds face blurred out
the movie the wrestler is a fucking awesome movie you see an ultra violent match like this
Besides the mercury they're ingesting, I'm surprised more guys aren't getting glass shards and dust in their eyes from those tubes.
Man that guys kids were so good!
" I almost pooped myself" lmao
show must be go in every world
They had matt tremont that's cool
it is in my eye's a modern gladiator fight..
Insane..
Yoshihiro Takayama 😢😢
Deathmatch wrestling is an extraordinary performance art.
That’s how lucha works
This was fucken awesome!
They should cover BJW, GCW, or FREEDOMS next
Does *anyone* know what the song is called at 0:54?
Luchadores get busy 💪🏽.. the "ultra violence" is a bonus 💯
Achooo!!! Lets Wrestling with me in Playstation 4 😀😀😀
@ser1ous672
5 жыл бұрын
What?
@evelinecarolinelienhuaming1184
5 жыл бұрын
H3LLBOY Play WWE Game in Ps4 😀😀
Damn dangerous
los golpes no van a matarlos pero el mercurio de las lámparas florecentes si.
When i see a man with full mask,hey ray mysterio....
Is anyone else having issues with the subtitles? Or are there no english subs?
Wow, that ring has NO give.
Mucha lucha
0:27 yay Takayama!
Old Rasslin’ of South USA this proto death matches. Old FMW, Onita Atsushi did it to extreme and called his style of Death Matches as The Evil/Sneak Way(JyaDoh) and Electric bomb blowed. Iwa japan, Wings, BjW, Japanese kept push the boundary. And CZW of USA too. This is too extreme for me but I am weirdly glad that Lucha Libre has own style of Death match.
Ever see a Cactus Jack, Terry Funk death match?
El chapo causally walking behind the scenes @1:06 😂😂
@boombapdoom493
5 жыл бұрын
Hella
Wow that's cool😀
Give me RF Guerilla destruction and some smooth titanfall2 fps.
THIS IS F*CKING COOL !!!
Why does the ref in the thumbnail have no eyes?
I honestly thought action Bronson was in the video
My favorite kind of wrestling
Hidalgo the place of my family 🇲🇽
I'm too lazy to read subtitles for 9 minutes.
Subtitles are wrong at 6:35. She said that he almost fell on top of her and she almost didn't realize. Not that she almost pooped her self.
Wtf is wrong with them
@TheHispanicmaid
5 жыл бұрын
This shit is nothing they haven’t brought over the Electric Match yet, or the Light bulb only match where the entire ring is filled with those Big Bulbs and there’s asbestos and glass everywhere but eventually they’ll bring it to Mexico.
@rebecca3aaa
5 жыл бұрын
This is modern wrestling culture. You don’t know what this job means these people so don’t be quick to judge. What’s crazy to you is a lifestyle to others.
@poderis1088
5 жыл бұрын
@@rebecca3aaaI mean yeah, that is facinating, but i think that they should dedicate all that passion for education. That would help more for their country and future genedations of their childrean.
@dontquestionmyprofilepicpl2936
5 жыл бұрын
Bruh its thier choice
@crtm1274
4 жыл бұрын
@@poderis1088 dedicate their passion to education when there is money to go lmao
Vice loves the term "Ultra-Violent"
@ruckercarlson6229
3 жыл бұрын
They are urban dwellers disconnected from nature, words are violent to them
I wonder why jimmy lloyd wanted his face blurred
Did they forget to add subtitles?
This made WWE "Should try this at home"
You learned how to do these fights more safely? So the fluoriscensic lambs dont have toxic powder in them like they normally do?
@alexhopkinson1610
5 жыл бұрын
LOL how do "fluoriscensic lambs" work?
@zydian_
5 жыл бұрын
with chemicals and electricity
@esthersmith3056
Жыл бұрын
no, theyre still toxic. it would be a problem in a small, poorly-ventilated space; but in a wide-open arena, it's the fumes arent that big a deal. some of it does get in the wounds, and people do occasionally retire early from the cumulative effect of that, but it's far from the worst thing theyre doing to their bodies -- every long-term wrestler (not just deathmatch wrestlers) retires with serious knee injuries. "more safely" in this context means, avoiding serious lacerations, not slicing arteries, etc..
Wait , is dat rey misterio?
Those lamps are filled covered in mucury
Where is sabu when you need him
MORE! MAS!
wow
One thing i just want to know Are Mexico from Asia
Are you drinking Gin & LA CROIX?!?!?!
2:06 a GCW shirt, fuck yeah!!!
Vice needs to look at ECW
I dont like the WWE but I'll watch this to pass the time
Why is the title in English but the audio is in Spanish
Oh god
someone play some brutal death metal or slam during the matches!!!!!
@kikoglocksakaghostdrummer4958
5 жыл бұрын
LMAO
A caray esto si me interesa
"make a docume.. I DONT CARE ABOUT WHAT.. a documentary or you are fucking out of here!" and this was born
7:47 dafuq was that lol that hurt him 1000% him more than buddy on the mat
Where is My boi Rey myestrio?
@boombapdoom493
5 жыл бұрын
Killa rey