The Wrestlers

E1 Episode 1: The Best New Talent in America

• Now playing
• 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.

E2 Episode 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.

E3 Episode 3: Japan's Finest Wrestlers

• Jun 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.

E4 Episode 4: Death Match

• Jun 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.

E5 Episode 5: The Powerful Women of Wrestling

• Jun 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.

E6 Episode 6: The Next Wave of Mexican Luchadores

• Jun 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.

E7 Episode 7: The Craziest Wrestling In Japan

• Jun 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.

E8 Episode 8: Wrestling On Canada's Reserves

• 1h
• Jun 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.

E9 Episode 9: Voodoo Wrestling

• Jul 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.

E10 Episode 10: Body Slamming Homophobia In Mexico

• Jul 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.

E11 Episode 11: Life After Wrestling

• Jul 31, 2019

E12 Episode 12: Making a Wrestler

• Jul 31, 2019