The crowd gasps and cheers as a bare-chested man grabs a chair and smashes it over the head of his opponent on the ground.
A referee in a black-and-white striped jersey rushes to his aid but the prone man is not really hurt — this is WWE-style wrestling in China, where the sport is attempting to take off.
“It’s been barbarous yet fun,” said Su San, who is watching professional wrestling for the first time and is among an audience of about 200 at the Middle Kingdom Wrestling (MKW) event in the southern city of Shenzhen, across the border from Hong Kong.
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