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Richard: Given the nature of the sport I think they did pretty well. It would have been absolutely terrifying for them, first up.

Mark: Oh yeah, I agree with that.

Richard:It would have been amazing to see them fight a tribesman, but they would have been beaten to a pulp. So it was very good having them at beginner's level. But there were a few things that I didn't like.

Mark: What didn't you like about it?

Richard: When they drank the stagnant water. I thought the attitude there was a little bit too jokey.

Mark: I agree.

Richard: I don't think they totally understood the significance of it. They'd only just been thrown together and they were probably trying to make friends with each other foremost.

But it was quite painful seeing their reactions and I think that if they had been more aware of them at the time they wouldn't have behaved the way they did.

Mark: Completely agree. Completely agree and I watched it with someone else who was unbiased about it, and we both sat there and were like, 'Oh, I can't believe they have reacted like that'. We weren't angels at times (in Series One), but we showed respect for traditions.

Richard: Well I think the thing to realise is, we (as viewers) were given the benefit of the tribesman looking so disgruntled and so unhappy. But at the time I they might not have realised just how important it was supposed to be.

Mark: I agree. Maybe it hadn't been explained.

Richard: I think one of my favourite parts was the few joyous seconds where it had seemed that Ed had won against Wolé, because it's always a great thing to see a smaller guy do well against a real powerhouse.

I thought the reaction of the tribesmen was fantastic, dancing around and pointing Ed brilliantly in the direction of the women. I laughed my head off and thought, 'That is such a good ending!'

It was slightly damaged by the adjustment of the results but those few moments were a great climax; it was well deserved, really great fighting, skill over power. It was satisfying moment.

Mark: It would have been nice to see them fight the tribe but they got stuck into each other and that was admirable to watch. It was like, 'Well, this is what we are here to do so let's get on with it', and I appreciated that.

When I watched it I was like, 'Yeah, fair play to them'. I haven't bought to everyone yet but I'm sure I will do over time. What I did have was respect for all of the guys, and when I saw them fight each other as they did, it was really admirable.

Richard: It takes real bravery, that sort of thing. One very illustrative clip was when you saw Ed from behind, and the number of large whelps he had down his side. You knew that this wasn't padded training, they had really been put through it.

I remember last year a lot of people used to ask me, 'Was all that stuff real? Was any of it doctored by the cameras?' Sitting watching it, you can almost see why they asked those questions because it seems so far out and extreme. But as those clips show, totally real.

Mark: And I think that's what, in terms of Series One guys, we can relate to. We know how real it is. What we are seeing, is (the programme) from the comfort of our own home, in a central heated house.

When we go to the gym, maybe it's air conditioned and what people need to realise when they watch the programme is that they are probably doing that in 35°C, 40°C of Ethiopian heat. Their diets are going to be awful, they're going to be training, bruised from training day in, day out as we were.

When people watch it on television they don't take the environment into consideration, they don't take the lack of sleep, the lack of food, and I think that's where we can always relate to it.

Keep an eye out for Mark and Rajko next week, who'll be discussing wrestling in Burkina Faso.