PIPPA THE RIPPER: These are guys that want
wrestling. They want to be scissored, they want to be put in headlocks, some of them want
to be knocked out by my thighs.
COMM: Hidden behind hundreds of unassuming
terraced London houses is the red padded mat room of The Submission Room.
PIPPA THE RIPPER: I have been wrestling for
about 10 years. I have had The Submission Room about five. We offer wrestling sessions.
There’s a fantastic group of girls that are very skilled and strong and guys come
and wrestle them. PUSSY WILLOW: You ready to tap?
PIPPA THE RIPPER: The guys come for all different sorts of reasons. For some guys it is a fetish,
a lot of the guys come because it’s really good fun, it’s a good way to keep fit. Some of
the guys do want to win, generally we win.
COMM: The Submission Room has 23 female wrestlers
for men chose from on their impressive roster. Among them are Pussy Willow and Amethyst Hammerfist.
AMETHYST HAMMERFIST: I tried to explain it
to some of my friends. It’s quite difficult for people, they think ‘Oh, so do they get
off on it and do they orgasm? Do they want to have sex with you?’ and I’m like, ‘If
they wanted sex, they could go to someone and buy sex and probably a lot cheaper.’
PUSSY WILLOW: And a lot quicker. You can have sex delivered to your door quicker than a Domino’s pizza.
PUSSY WILLOW: Being a dominatrix privately
and professionally and a sensual masseuse, and all these sorts of things, so I have come
into it from that angle. And I must say when I found wrestling I felt like I had found
my true calling. I’m sure you feel with me on this one.
AMETHYST HAMMERFIST: Always been feisty and
aggressive, a bit too much, so when I found the wrestling it literally saved me, because
now I have an outlet where every day I can be feisty and aggressive in a safe place and
get paid for it.
COMM: One of the gym’s regular clients is council worker Steve.
STEVE: I suppose I have been coming back here three-four years now, something like that.
STEVE: I think wrestling is a great sport,
always have done. But I don’t want to roll back on this floor with a sweaty bloke and
this is the thing with most guys. They think, look at that, look how sexy that is, somebody
sitting on his face, that must be so sexy. Do you know what, 0.01 of a second before
they sit on your face, yes it’s sexy. Once then, you think, I can’t breathe, that stops
being a sexy very quickly. It will frighten the life out of most people if they did it.
STEVE: I’m having trouble breathing now.
WILFRIED: I have always been into sports.
Since I’m a bit, I’m a kinky guy, on the internet I found out there was a wrestling
scene, like happening like next door to me in London. Wrestling is kind of fun to me
because it caters not only to the kinky me, but also to an athlete fit me.
STEVE: That was great, I mean it’s, I actually
fought back really really hard, I don’t normally do that, and it makes it a lot more
fun. When Pippa had me in a figure four triangle, she had her leg pushing on my carotid artery
and I was actually starting to see stars.
STEVE: If I hadn’t tapped out and she kept
going, it wouldn’t be long until I passed out. You know, I’ll wake up tomorrow morning
and have a lot of bruises.
PIPPA THE RIPPER: There is absolutely no type
of person that comes. We have young people, old people, rich people, poor people, people
that have been into wrestling for years, people that have just discovered it and think that
looks fun.
COMM: Pippa the Ripper says business is growing
all the time, as more people like Steve find out about the gym.
COMM: In the near future, she hopes to move
into a bigger premises and run live wrestling events.
PIPPA THE RIPPER: I really don’t know what
I’d be doing if I hadn’t found wrestling. I get a huge kick out of it. I love learning
about my body and how I can use it in different ways.
STEVE: In case you are wondering, that’s
my throat. That’s where I breathe through. PIPPA THE RIPPER: Come on.