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What can somebody tell me about Fightplace?  With an annual membership fee of 699 euros--that's nearly a thousand US dollars (or five and a half years on Naked Kombat)--it is well out of my price range, making me thankful I'm a perv in the good ole US of A.  


I love the meaty little scraps Fightplace throws to us YouTubers every once in a while--the slim, attractive but regular-looking white kids who swim, bike, and leap hurtles but have never seen the inside of a gym and who meet wrestling opponents under highly unlikely circumstances.  Now, picking fights with the guy who gives my car an oil change or with random picnickers off whose faces I want to wipe away that arrogant look is something of a daydream of mine.


The wrestling is not bad, from what I can tell from the tightly edited excerpts, but, then, MTV has taught me that tight editing and a jittery zoom lens can make Stevie Nicks look like she is dancing.  These Fightplace guys are scrappy, and I like that, and cute in a pasty Bel Ami sort of way.  My favorite matches are the ones that look like Wolfgang Tillmans shot them in an IKEA warehouse.


The quality of light over there really is unique.  And the boys' poreless skin makes me wish my mother  had raised me on fish heads and Nutella, too.  And the fighters, though untrained, really act like they want to win the matches and almost never attempt, with the cheesy affectations we wrestling kinksters are all too familiar with, to be pointedly "homoerotic."


At the same time, they appear boyishly comfortable with their bodies, both the showing of and the touching of against others'--a matter-of-fact openness rarely seen in  even sex workers in North America.  It appears that playfully tormenting each other bodily is much more common in that part of world, to which I say, "Hooray for Europe."  Intermural meets and WWE are fine and all, but Americans need to integrate much more informal roughhouse into their daily lives ... if not, perhaps, at the JiffyLube.

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  1. You do not need to purchase a membership to view their videos. You can purchase them as DVDs (that will play on US computers, but not US DVD players) or downloads on a per-match basis. Prices range from under 20 euros to almost 34 euros. As with most companies, there is a great variation in quality.
    http://www.fightplace.com/?Price-list&PHPSESSID=14008f05015e82b7ad4cd255c9e98411

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  2. FightPlace is great! Unfortunately, most fighters are very skinny, which I particularly dislike. The matches are also excessively long.

    However, it seems that FightPlace is suffering from the same fate as Movimus Wrestling. Not only they stopped updating their social networks several months ago (July), but the official website itself went down.

    It's almost as if what happened to John from Movimus Wrestling had some impact on the existence of Fightplace, lol.

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