{"id":8934,"date":"2018-01-12T16:54:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T23:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8934"},"modified":"2018-01-22T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T00:04:23","slug":"hardcore-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/12\/hardcore-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardcore Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/5323511\/bloody-hardcore-wrestling-beat-glass-barbed-wire-bats-death-matches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Sun<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>BLOODY VIOLENT: Inside the bloody world of hardcore wrestling where fighters brawl with shards of glass, barbed wire bats and fan-made weapons in ultra-violent \u2018death matches\u2019<\/h1>\n<p>These shocking pictures show hardcore wrestlers fighting until they are dripping with blood and hurling themselves into fiery pits full of glass.<\/p>\n<p>By Emma Parry, Digital US Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ps0NJ2Sq8D4\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>IT&#8217;S been dubbed the bloodiest sport in the world &#8211; where men and women beat each other to a pulp with glass lighting tubes, fan-made barbed-wire bats and other deadly weapons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is hardcore death-match wrestling and, according to fans, it&#8217;s 100 per cent more brutal than anything you&#8217;ve seen on WWE.<\/p>\n<p>With a large and loyal following, these fighters travel across America &#8211; and the world &#8211; taking part in ultra-violent wrestling events &#8211; such as barefoot thumbtack matches &#8211; before patching themselves up with superglue and hitting the road.<\/p>\n<p>Others hurl themselves off rooftops or scaffolding into pits of fire, glass, barbed wire &#8211; or all three &#8211; in front of wild, cheering crowds.<\/p>\n<p>These graphic pictures were taken by photographer Marc McAndrew who spent two years following the wrestlers and documenting their lives&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/5323511\/bloody-hardcore-wrestling-beat-glass-barbed-wire-bats-death-matches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Sun<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Sun BLOODY VIOLENT: Inside the bloody world of hardcore wrestling where fighters brawl with shards of glass, barbed wire bats and fan-made weapons in ultra-violent \u2018death matches\u2019 These shocking pictures show hardcore wrestlers fighting until they are dripping with blood and hurling themselves into fiery pits full of glass. By Emma Parry, Digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}