{"id":2031,"date":"2007-01-19T10:08:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T18:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/and_its_just_a_matter_of_time_before_female_mud_wrestling_is_fully_rehabilitated.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:28:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T19:28:27","slug":"and_its_just_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/and_its_just_a.html","title":{"rendered":"And It’s Just A Matter Of Time Before Female Mud Wrestling* Is Fully Rehabilitated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Williamsburg hipsters — that cynical and fully debased class of people that represents exactly why they hate our freedom — move from post-modern post-feminist<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It may not have the draw and commercial viability of the NFL yet. But the PFL — the Pillow Fight League — is making its U.S. debut tonight in front of a sold-out crowd at Williamsburg’s Galapagos (and repeating the feat tomorrow night).<\/p>\n

The Toronto-based group is staging its World Championship between Betty Clock’er and Champain. New York ladies in the audience will be invited to participate in amateur matches, as well.<\/p>\n

“This isn’t about a trained opera singer or people trained in fights,” said Matt Harsant, 31, a PFL producer and senior referee. “It’s about you and your neighbor and your sister and aunt kicking off her heels and getting into the ring. We say, ‘Real women, real fights.'”<\/p>\n

The five-minute bouts can get pretty nasty with drop kicks and smothering — though there’s a five-second time limit on smothering. Almost anything goes as long as the pillow makes the first point of contact. The goal is to pin down an opponent for three seconds.<\/p>\n

“It’s derived from mixed martial arts, judo, boxing and good, old-fashioned catfights,” Harsant said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

*Time was, positive voices of conscience — Phranc<\/a>, for example! — unironically decried Female Mud Wrestling . . . obviously that was so<\/em> 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Williamsburg hipsters — that cynical and fully debased class of people that represents exactly why they hate our freedom — move from post-modern post-feminist: It may not have the draw and commercial viability of the NFL yet. But the PFL — the Pillow Fight League — is making its U.S. debut tonight in front of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what_will_they_think_of_next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}