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Kaiju Big Battel is a live-action wrestling phenomenon ripped right out of the pages of a Godzilla movie. At Stage 48 in New York City, characters clad in elaborate monster costumes take to the wrestlingring - that is scattered with a cardboard cityscape - to battle it out before a screaming audience.

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The spectacle looks like a Japanese monster movie come to life, as clawed and tentacle creatures execute WWE moves -- and occasionally bash each other with the Styrofoam buildings used as weapons.




"It's time for Japandemonium!" screams ringside announcer, Mr. Louden Noxious (with a name fitting for his character). The hundreds of fans - a cross mix of hipsters and hardened wrestling fanatics - go berserk; this is what they came for -- to see monsters go mono el mono!

Pedro and Paco -- better known as Los Plantanos (a pair of Spanish-speaking, freedom-fighting plantains) are doing double-team battle with the sinister Hack and Slash; a pair of wrestling rogues who look right out of Friday the 13th. In the world of Kaiju; monsters are real and danger happens! Their battle plays out like a Japanese Pokemon cartoon -- of DEATH!

The Battel is presented in the style of a WWE event, with the costumed wrestlers playing the roles of giant, city-crushing monsters in the vein of Godzilla and Gamera.

This imaginative, and faux violent, costumed slugfest was created by brothers Rand and David Borden and put on by the good folks at Studio Kaiju. The Boston-based performance troupe conceived the idea for Kaiju Big Battel 20 years ago when they were students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. 'Battel' is intentional misspelled. (Rand got the word wrong on a T-shirt design. People thought it was funny -- so it stuck.)

The event is geared towards fans of pro wrestling with plenty of inside jokes aimed at the world of Mexican wrestlers, superheroes, comic books, and Japanese pop culture. Show less