Turkish Oil Wrestling: Look like fun to you?

Turkish Oil Wrestlers / today's gladyatörs

Competitive OIL WRESTLING in Turkey is a HUGE sport, and the best Oil Wrestlers are revered there like modern-day Gladiator Gods: A snippet of what their sport is like has been beautifully captured here by German videographer and blogger Marcus Dassel (www.vimeo.com/markusdassel) - where he shows us how a a simple outdoor field near Antalya packed with avid spectators viewing scores of simultaneous matches (in eleven divisions, ranging from school kids to forty-year-old masters) becomes a magnificent public spectacle of unadulterated masculinity that's also unavoidably wildly homoerotic.