These are the Kings of the Mountain,
the Mightiest of the Mighty.
Day One of the 2000 Kirkpinar finds the showers, the bleachers and the field jammed
with kids, teens and young men itching for a fight (and the prize money in Turkish Lire
for each match won). Before the first wave of wrestlers is sent out, they are greasing up
and horsing around, kidding and scrimmaging. Once they take the field, however, they
are suddenly all business. Immediately forty pairs of opponents are thrashing around in
the uncut grass like mortal enemies. This record of Day One shows the sweatiest, most
intense bouts of the day.