It's not the WWE.

It's not All Japan Pro Wrestling.

It has to do with worked fighting.

It's not UWF-i.

It has to do with women.

It's not AJW.

...It's called "The Real Catfight".

For those uninitiated, The Real Catfight/Japanese Catfighting takes two Japanese women, puts them in a ring (or in many cases, a tarped covered mat) and pits them against each other in a battle of wills. The objective is not only to pin or submit your opponent within a 3, 3 minute round system, but if you can rip off their clothes and foldle their boobies, all the better. Gimmick matches involve spaghetti, various sticky substances, and other props all meant to lather your opponent with and maybe stick down their panties. But it's not the overt nudity and playful lipstick lesbianism that really sells this show (why, that would just be porno, and downright perverted), but it's the WRESTLING that makes this promotion the greatest.

I will go ON RECORD, saying that this promotion has better mat wrestling than any other pro wrestling promotion in the world. Armbars, kimuras, leglocks, rear naked chokes. High kicks and german suplexes.

And then there's the "host" who has this really big orange wig on and that says "Are you ready? Are you ready? LEEEEEETSSSUH GETTTIT OOOOONAUYAHAHAOIFHKHGY!" and then jumps up in the air like a mad man. It's so very bizarre.

It's what wrestling is supposed to be.

You see, there are no planned-in-the-back, choreographed moves. These ladies go out there and wrestle on the fly. They trade holds and fight over them. It's like if Karl Gotch were asian, and a woman, and wrestled drunk. There are well-defined characters who fight as their characters would. There's back-and-forth action, and then there's squashes, and there are winners and losers. It's not violent, it's not done with malice. There is a sense of purity that you just don't find in todays manufactured world of professional wrestling. And sure, the actual technique may be lacking in some areas. And sure, they tend to laugh and smile and break character a lot. But part of that sense of purity is the sense of fun, and it's all in good fun. It's been a while since wrestling has been fun, hasn't it? We grew up as children watching wrestling cause it was fun. Well, whats more fun than seeing two hot women, one in a school girls outfit, one dressed as a superhero, slip around on orange tarp, covered in jelly, trying to apply leglocks while at the same time trying to strip the other down?

The Real Catfight airs at 2am on the fight network.

If you consider yourself a true wrestling fan, stay up and check it out.