You have to hand it to the Japanese, they know violence sells and they market it like no other country can.
But this has to be the dumbest sport in history, two fat guys pounding each other with neon-rods until they’re both soaked in blood? I have no idea what this sport is called or who came up with the idea, but apparently it’s very popular in the Land of the Rising Sun, despite it’s obvious stupidity. I’d rather watch some K1 or UFC any day, this is just like wrestling only with real blood.
I wonder if those lamps are mercury free…if they’re not, do the fat guys know they could die from mercury poisoning?
what the fuck
sick!!!
very sick shit
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“this is just like wrestling only with real blood.”
Uhmm… This IS wrestling (pro wrestling I mean). Those pictures are propably taken from Big Japan Pro Wrestling, which usually has these death matches on them. Death matches are just “a bit” more hardcore than basic hardcore matches, but the idea is pretty much the same. This one has light tubes in it, but there are many other things used from barbed wire to C4… Pretty much everything you can use to hurt your opponent without killing them. And it’s not only the fat guys who do it.
I’m not a big fan of death matches myself. I like “regular” pro wrestling and MMA. But I do watch them occasionally.
And by the way: The blood seen in por wrestling is real. Check out this article if you’re intrested: http://www.ddtdigest.com/features/blading/
how the fuck do you use c4 without killing somebody?
They look more Chinese to me than Japanese.
Likewise, the guy who wrote the article seems to know little about Japan. Japan does not have Death matches. However, Chinese Kung-Fu does!
Likewise, the Japanese are NOT pros as the writer originally intended the article to mean.
Seems to me the write needs to get his facts straight.
There IS NO SUCH fighting like this in Japan!
Actually Walt there are fights like this in Japan and have been for over 20 years! Japan has a huge Extreme Wrestling scene, they use Hardcore weapons like florecent bulbs, thumb tacks, barbwire wrapped baseball bats and they go as far as replacing the ropes with Barbwire. check out Big Japan Pro Wrestling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Japan_Pro_Wrestling as well as the Grandfather of them all the International Wrestling Association of Japan this is the league that Cactus Jack (Mick Foley) lost an ear.
So yah there is fighting like this in Japan and yes they do have what are called Death matches, and time bomb matches, and barbwire baseball bat matches Just ask Terry Funk and Mick Foley ^_^*
you think…. damn dude you are one over analyzing mofo… if you watch this and all you think of is “they are gonna get mercury poisoning”
i personally would worry more about a little tiny sliver of glass poking me in the weiner
this is from Big Japan Pro Wrestling. An indy wrestling promotion in Japan. Yes, Japan. Go to youtube and you will see for yourself.
FMW in Japan was the original death match fed before it went belly up..in the U.S., there’s CZW and IWA Mid-South that do death matches..check out videos with Necro Butcher on youtube..And Foley lost his ear in Germany against Vader in a regular match for WCW.
Check out CZW. They run a tournament like this annually, over in philly.
Natural selection in action. Bloody Brilliant though (pun intended)
Foley lost his ear in WCW, not IWA. It was a match with Vader in Germany. His ear was ripped off when he did his trademark “hangman” spot. His neck was caught tied in the top and middle ropes and the ropes were tighter than usual.
Mick Foley did in fact wrestle in deathmatches in IWA in Japan in the mid 90s. To the best of my knowledge he never wrestled in a light tube match, but he did compete in many deathmatches, including no ropes barbed wire, thumbtack matches, and c4 matches.
Uh…. Yes there is. Japanese wrestling is full of Death Matches. Japan is where Cactus Jack (a.k.a. Mick Foley) and Chainsaw Charlie (a.k.a. Terry Funk) did quite a lot of wrestling before joining ECW and then ultimately WWE. Japan is famous for these types of extreme wrestling. Research my brother. Research.
Yeah, this is definitely from Big Japan Pro Wrestling, and thus Japanese. The two combatants are Abdullah Kobayashi (the really fat guy) and Jaki Numazawa (the less fat but still fat guy).
far better than those american fatas*es pretending to be cool, when they are just a bunch of fake-tanned-steroid-pussies-ACTORS.
WTF? Obviously the lack of any sort of functional brain matter is a prerequisite for competing.
now thats what i call recycling!
I see Darwin Awards live show is going along nicely.
No loss to the gene pool there.
This is really weird, because i’ve been to Japan many times because half of my family lives over there. And out of all the times i’ve been there i have never heard much less seen anything like this.
And one more thing spooky. God bless your freakin soul for this website. This has quickly become my life line to sanity. I freakin love any thing that fits into the “Worlds blankiest blank” catagory. Its like if 4chan was pg-13, about real stuff, and organized nicely. If your ever in vegas let me know. http://www.myspace.com/skydizzle1983
Japanese or Chinese… who cares. Stupidity has got a new face.
idiocy comes in the form of man
FUCK THE WHAT
OUCH
You would think that the Japanese had their belly full of mercury poisoning or beryllicosis
this looks quite deadly…re than UFC
Fairly sure it is in Japan, it was featured in the Dirty Sanchez movie and they were visiting Japan at the time (don’t quote me on that, been a couple of years).
And oh yeah it’s really f**kin stupid!
i just smoked weed laced with meth
i am high as balls
this looks way too cool but doesn’t the mercury vapors damage their lungs severly?
srsly, wtf?
Walt, stop trying to cover up the sick crap you do in Japan. The Japanese are one of the sickest nations in the world, as demonstrated by their capacity to torture and decapitate babies during the Nanjing Massacre.
The Chinese would never do something so brutal. Stop trying to cover up you sick pervert!
The only thing that’s changed in japanese society is that after losing the way, they could no longer brutally massacre other socieites. So instead what they now turn to are perverted sh*t like hentai, sick cartoons with tentacles having sex with robots, the worst of all fetishes etc. I am in no shock that such a sport (ie smashing each other with light tubes) is perfectly normal in Japan.
Crazy Nips.
wow… world goes crazy, but these japs fat wrestlers are totaly without brains… or maybe some new inventions – HUMAN_ROBOTS
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…. if they fighting with Fluorescent lamps (contains mercury and other hazardous compounds), so maybe they can fight with radioactive things… like on ir IN NUCLEAR REACTOR 
.. i’m just jocking there, but they are realy stupid… good luck in hospital for 10 years reabilitation after one match of this wrestling.. 
Just think of all the mercury the wrestlers and the front row occupants are being exposed to!!!!!
Just enough mercury to make all attendees slightly dumber.
Sigh….
Those are fluorescent bulbs… not Neon.
ekscentryczny naród ; )
It’s just japanese wrestling. They also do barbed wire matches, c4 explosives macthes ans much more completely f*** up stuff.
die of mercury poisoning? can we add HIV, Hepatitus C and all manner of other blood borne unpleasantness as well?
How about all the powdered glass they must end up ingesting and inhaling. That can’t be good for you.
That really is nuts.
I heard that their cage matches are electrifying. Literally.
… this is no sport.
But I live in Japan, and this is not very popular. I think it’s more underground… I’ve never heard about it.
Those are not neon lamps. They are flourescent lamps.
I think they are injected with pain reliever to be able to continue with the show
lava lamps would be better.
Sigh… This is hardcore style pro wrestling. The fat guy is Abdullah Kobayashi, but I’m not sure who the other one is. The wrestling promotion is called Big Japan Pro Wrestling. They’re not that popular, but obviously enough to be somewhat financially successful. Like already mentioned by others in the comments, those are fluorescent bulbs and aren’t all that bad. I’m sure the glass inhalation is bad, though.
“I’d rather watch some K1 or UFC any day, this is just like wrestling only with real blood.”
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here. In pro wrestling, nearly all blood is real. Fake blood is hardly ever used and generally looked down upon by other wrestlers.
Seriously, did no one watch Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler?”
Typical brainless heathens. Let’s nuke ‘em!
‘Real blood’ in the sense from real, honest fighting.
None of this carney pish.
hi fight very hard becaus this fight after more blod come but i like that