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WARNING: Some might find content in this video less than savory.
NSBNEWS.net photo and video by Sera Frederick. Heather Spears, of Samsula, walks away victorious from the Cabbage Patch wrestling coleslaw pit to keep her four-year winning streak alive. The raunch-fest drew 15,000 bikers, according to Ron Luzner, owner of Sopotnick's Cabbage Patch.
SAMSULA -- This was raunchier than World Wrestling Entertainment's "Monday Night Raw," with Samsula's own Heather Spears laying the smackdown on her opponents in the coleslaw Cabbage Patch pit to the delight of 15,000 bikers.
Welcome to Bike Week's underbelly where mother lodes are worshiped as divas of the reeking oil-drenched cabbage that slides off along with what little hey have on to begin with, though some in the crowd actually preferred they'd keep it on.
This is some scary stuff, folks. On the raunchy scale, you can start ot zero and measure into negative numbers, as far as beauty and grace are concerned. As for entertainment value, the needle leans in the other direction watching super-plus women slithering in the stench of a cabbage pit, with the crowd begging for the little clothing worn to come off.
Just ask Doris Hagans, 66, of Manschoice, Pa.: "It's just entertainment. If I was younger, I would try it. It's just entertainment."
Her husband, Ron, 68, was hollering with the majority of burly bikers, sucking down beers and cheering for the extreme while their girlfriends or wives shouted encouragement to the combatants on the other side of the wire fence.
Samsula's own Heather Spears, 27, not to be confused with Britney Spears, the reigning four-year coleslaw wrestling champion once again came out on top of her two opponents, getting hosed down twice and treating her minions to a brief display of her breasts.
Asked why she doesn't retire from the stinky green pit, Spears said she's motivated by the prize: "It's the money," the single mother of two who is attending Daytona State College said.
That's $500.
Several women in the crowd were polled as to whether they'd put on a public exhibition like this and most said they wouldn't have the nerve to begin with.
Debbie Riner, 43, of Yuccah Valley, Calif., a homemaker and former Blackhawk helicopter mechanic, much smaller than the likes of Spears, and catching the eye of many a biker, said surrounded by a bunch of bikers, it's easy not to over analyze the silliness of the event and to accept it for what it is: "We're surrounded by bikers. You can't get a better crowd."
Ron Luzner, owner of Sopotnick's Cabbage Patch, just up the road from New Smyrna Speedway, echoed that sentiment.
With the economy in the tank, this type of entertainment is a big draw for the biker crowd looking to have fun.
"It's probably as big as it's ever been," he said of the nearly three-decade event, that he estimated drew a crowd of 15,000 Wednesday.
For those who missed the raunch-fest on Wednesday, you're in luck. There's more coleslaw wrestling Saturday when more bikers are expected to arrive in the Daytona Beach area for the final weekend of the 10-day Bike Week motorcycle rally that is expected to draw half a million.