![]() ![]() ![]() Photographer Marc McAndrews (Courtesy Julia Haltigan) Julia Haltigan … They know how to fall and get cut in a way that produces the most visual effect.” “Everybody knows what they’re doing and how to get into it,” McAndrews said. Like the wrestling you see on television, these are predetermined events being carried out by trained performers who are trying to elicit a response from the crowd. These “death matches” – a more violent brand of what’s known as “hardcore” wrestling – normally ended with both wrestlers a bloody mess.īut it’s important to remember that it’s still entertainment. There, in a field in Delaware, he watched performers beat each other with all sorts of weapons: tables, ladders, chairs, barbed wire, panes of glass, fluorescent-light tubes, you name it. “What the f*** did I just see?” he recalls saying to himself. He remembers spending Saturday mornings with friends, jumping off sofas and trying to emulate the great “Superfly” Jimmy Snuka.īut he wasn’t prepared for what he saw years later, when he photographed a wrestling event called the “Tournament of Death.” Marc McAndrews grew up a fan of pro wrestling.
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