Taiwanese cable tv continues to amaze me with the absolute randomness that is broadcast at any given time of the day.

In my latest channel surfing adventure I happened across what appears to be the Asian wrestling equivalent of what we know as wrestling.

Forget flashy intros, cunningly witty dialogue, themed characters and Emmy award winning plotlines, when it comes to Asian wrestling you’re pretty much looking at two women fighting it out in what appears to be someone’s basement.

You’ll have to excuse my voice in this one, I was on the tail end of a nasty headcold (did my best to not cough during recording).


I mentioned it in the video but what surprised me the most was the lack of enthusiasm by the audience. From the few western (WWF, WCW et al.) wrestling matches I’ve seen on tv here the audience is usually made up of teenagers and young twenty somethings. Like or hate wrestling it’s hard to argue that they don’t get involved and make up a decent atmosphere during the match.

With Asian wrestling the audience appears to be made up primarily of business men in suits who… well I’m not sure if they’re getting off on watching them women or what exactly they’re getting out of it.

Their eyes are glued to the ring but nobody seems terribly excited. Maybe they’re all heavy gamblers and there’s a lot of money riding on these games so there’s little time to express any kind of involvement who knows.

Meanwhile I’m kinda worrying about the health of those women. Some of those blows looked suspiciously real… and the hair pulling… ouch!

1. Equality law: Women unable to achieve on their own
2. So…what do Australian women want again?
3. Is this the most Asian taxi in Taiwan?
4. Women & Alcohol: va-va-voom or attractiveness doom?
5. Australian Govt to force more women into corporations