List server
Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 Auckland's Underground Vogue Scene
- Season 1 Last Man of Mahana
- Season 1 New Zealand's Deadly Synthetic Drugs Epidemic
- Season 1 Lost Boys of Taranaki
- Season 1 Alien Weaponry: Thrash Metal and Te Reo Maori
- Season 1 Lethal Ladies: New Zealand’s Female Fighters
- Season 1 Inside Sex Work in New Zealand
- Season 1 Women in the House
- Season 1 Deportees of Tonga: Gangsters in Paradise
Zealandia - Season 1 Episode 6 Lethal Ladies: New Zealand’s Female Fighters
10.00 48 minutes VICE gets up close and personal with a cross section of Aotearoa’s most ferocious female fighters as they prepare for the Lethal Ladies fight meet. There’s Wendy Talbot, who sleeps in her van so she can be closer to her gym, and Kelly Broerse, a former competitive ballroom dancer who’s found her true calling in the Muay Thai ring. Baby “Pitbull” Nansen, fresh from becoming the first New Zealand woman to fight at New York’s Madison Square Garden, takes us inside SMAC Gym to show how combat sports can turn lives around—just as they did for her. VICE examines the motivations and challenges of the top echelon of female fighting talent, and reveals the raw truth of exactly what it takes to get in the ring: the physical toll it takes on the body, the mental toll it takes on the mind. “You’re getting in the ring with someone who wants to beat the crap out of you,” says Broerse. “It’s terrifying.”Read Less
