10 Hardcore Japanese Wrestling Stipulations You Won't Believe Are Real

8. No Rope Barbed Wire Double Hell Fire Death Match

Everything's better with fire.

A quick explanation of what 'Double Hell' means. The phrase is used to denote when two sides of the ring are covered in barbed wire - spidernet, electrified or otherwise - and the other two sides are removed entirely but something bad is put on the floor underneath those bare sides: glass boards, barbed wire boards, C4 barbed wire boards (we'll get to that), whatever gets you going.

In a Double Hell Fire match, the two bare sides of the ring are cordoned off with poles, the ends of which are on fire.

We're only at slide 3 and already we're so tired.

Here's one of those, starring FMW's biggest heel and baffling loon, Mr Pogo, facing off against Mitsuhiro Matsunaga:

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This is the opposite end of our taste scale. We never want to see this again.

Knives are used on faces, barbed wires is wrapped around human bodies, people blow fireballs at each other and someone goes face-first into a flaming pole.

Let's move on.