What is it about girls fighting that captures the
\n male mind like a steel trap on a drunken bear? Somehow it connects the
\n Sports Zone of the brain to the Sex Zone, which together
\n make up approximately 95% of the typical American male’s mental real
\n estate.<\/p>\n
From the beer ad featuring two comely combatants in Two stories that appeared In the past several Female sumo wrestlers grappled in a tournament promoted by the late Heishiro Meanwhile, the sumo ethos is spreading This incredible smorgasbord of old and new includes What, you may ask, is Korfball? According to the official Now the Dowbrigade has spent half his adult life in EL ALTO, Bolivia – In her red multilayered skirt, white But as Carmen Rosa, master of the ring and winner of 100 bone-crunching With loyal fans screaming out her name, she climbs the corner ropes high from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Call us old fashioned, but we prefer a good old-fashioned <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is it about girls fighting that captures the male mind like a steel trap on a drunken bear? Somehow it connects the Sports Zone of the brain to the Sex Zone, which together make up approximately 95% of the … Continue reading
\n a classically refreshing fountain, to the continuing popularity of mud
\n wrestling, through the reemergence of female professional wrestlers like La
\n Gata Negra<\/a>, movies like Million Dollar Baby and boxers like Lalia
\n Ali, battling babes are hot commodities on the modern media market.<\/p>\n
\n days seem to indicate that this is not a purely American phenomena. First,
\n women’s sumo wrestling is making a comeback. Who even knew it had
\n gone away? According to an article in the Japan Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/\nwosumo.jpg\")
YAMAGATA
\n (Kyodo) Female sumo wrestlers wearing "mawashi" belts
\n over their underwear once competed in tournaments throughout Japan, Taiwan
\n and Hawaii, a popular entertainment until it disappeared in the 1960s.<\/p>\n
\n Ishiyama in Tokyo’s Asakusa district in 1958. But women’s sumo is attracting
\n attention again.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n around the world. Sumo, we discovered, is a featured event at the World
\n Games<\/a>, held this year in Duisburg, Germany. How did we not hear
\n about this annual event until right now? If only we had known in time
\n to request blogging credentials.<\/p>\n
\n ancient standbys like Archery and Tug of War (?!) as well as relative
\n newcomers like the international hit Korfball. In addition, official
\n sports include waterskiing, karate, rhythmic gymnastics, frisbee, fistball
\n and fly casting. Not to mention Sumo, both men’s and women’s divisions.<\/p>\n
\n web site of the International
\n Korfball Association<\/a>, "Korfball is the
\n world’s only true mixed team sport with the rules laid down so that both
\n men
\n and women have equal opportunities." The only thing more athletically
\n erotic than women fighting is mixed competition.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/\nbolivia2.jpg\")
Well, we thought we had seen everything when we came
\n across the following article on women’s professional wrestling in, of
\n all places, Bolivia<\/a>. The
\n landlocked Andean fortress of Bolivia, of course, is the final battleground
\n of the 500-year American
\n Indian War<\/a>. It is the country with the highest percentage native
\n American genetic heritage (over 70%), as well as the poorest country
\n in the hemisphere
\n despite a healthy endowment of gas and other natural resources. <\/p>\n
\n South America, and is a strong supporter of the native peoples of
\n that star-crossed regions and their attempts to reclaim their ancestral
\n cultures and somehow recover from near genocide, chronic poverty and
\n systemic discrimination, but for the life of us we can’t
\n figure out the cultural significance of tiny, traditionally dressed Indian
\n women from the altiplano, in their voluminous layered skirts, puffy white
\n blouses and multiple strands of beads and necklaces flying through the
\n air and pounding the canvas within the squared circle of the Bolivian
\n version of the World Wrestling Federation.<\/p>\n\n
\n pumps and gold-laced shawl, the traditional dress of the Aymara people,
\n Ana Polonia Choque might well be preparing for a night of folk dancing
\n or, perhaps, a religious festival.<\/p>\n
\n bouts in Bolivia’s colorful wrestling circuit, she is actually dressing
\n for a night of mayhem.<\/p>\n
\n above the ring, bounces once for momentum and flies high, arms outstretched
\n for maximum effect. To the crowd’s delight, the dive flattens her adversary,
\n Mar?a Remedios Condori, better known as Julia la Pace?a (Julia from La
\n Paz).<\/p>\n
\n bake-off or quilting bee.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n