Tears are a turn on for many catfight fans, and I admit to being one of them. It’s not that I enjoy seeing women hurt. Tears of pure pain don’t do it for me. But if I see a woman crying out of pure emotion during a fight - from frustration, dissapointment, anger, whatever – that’s different. It tells me that winning or losing matters to her, and that makes it matter to me.
I’m not sure about the other companies mentioned here, but I’ve seen a few ECC fights where one of the ladies cried from pure emotion: Irish vs Regina 2, Lexie vs Johanna, Tracy vs Alex, and Irish vs Blair.
In Irish vs Blair, the loser cries from both pain and emotion at the end, then runs out of the studio, sobbing and distraught, and I hated seeing her in a state like that. Unlike the Crystal fight though, the producer could not be blamed this time for letting it go on too long.
The damage was caused by a single fast slap to the ear. And it happened so quickly that I didn’t understand, at first, why one girl suddenly stopped fighting, keeled over and submitted. It was only when I saw the sick, dazed look on her face, and noticed that she was poking around in her ear with one finger, that I realised she had been badly hurt.
Slaps to the ear might not look like much, but they can mess you up even worse than a hard punch. The ear is responsible for balance as well as sound detection. It contains an arrangement of tiny, delicate bones and membranes, floating in a fluid which is very sensitive to vibrations. A fast, hard slap can cause a sudden rise in the air pressure within the ear. This in turn leads to dizziness, loss of balance, and, a few seconds later, nausea and intense pain for the unlucky person who it.
I suspected that’s what had happened so I emailed the producer, asked him, and found out that I was right.