Street Woman Fighter (), often abbreviated as SWF, is the debut season of a South Korean dance competition franchise of the same name. It aired on Mnet from August 24 to October 26, 2021, every Tuesday at 22:20 (KST) time slot for 9 episodes. It revolved around eight female dance crews fighting for the position of Korea's best female dance crew to represent street dance in the country (loosely marketed under the term "K-dance").
The winning crew (HolyBang) received million, a sponsorship deal with Budweiser, and the Street Woman Fighter trophy.
The second season of the show, Street Man Fighter, aired in 2022 with the same show format but with male contestants. Subsequently, a third season, Street Woman Fighter 2, returned in 2023, with new female dance crews.
Cast The program is presented by Kang Daniel.
The judge panel in this season consists of three dancers from SM Entertainment: BoA Taeyong (NCT) Hwang Sang-hoon
Special guests "4 Legends of K-pop" mission (episode 4) Hyuna CL Jessi
"Mega Crew" mission (episodes 5–6) Sooyoung (Girls' Generation) Choi Yoo-jung (Weki Meki) Yves Lee Young-Ji
"Jessi Choreography" mission (episode 7) Jessi Psy
"Men of Women" Mission (episodes 7–8) Jay Park Jo Kwon (2AM)
"Performance Sound Source" mission (episode 9) CL Sunmi Simon Dominic Loco Chungha
Street Woman Fighter: Gala Talkshow (special episodes) Haha Jang Do-yeon
Contestants
Color key: Leader List of Street Woman Fighter contestants Crew Name Birthday Notes YGX Leejung Lee () Choreographer for TWICE, ITZY, Sunmi, Somi, BLACKPINK, iKON Former member of Just Jerk Crew. Member of YGX's NWX crew. Yeojin () Member of YGX's NWX crew. Jihyo () Member of YGX's NWX crew. Isak () Member of YGX's Crazy dance crew Yell () 2018 Summer Youth Olympics B-Girl 1v1 Bronze Medallist Lachica Gabee () Choreographer (with Rian and Simeez) for BoA, Yubin, Chungha, CLC, TWICE, Natty. Formerly known as "Single Lady" during her underground dance battle days. Peanut () Professional Waacker Rian () Choreographer for Chungha, Hyoyeon, Weki Meki, Previously participated in season 2 of Dancing9 H_1 () Choreographer and back-up dancer for Hwasa Simeez () Choreographer for KARD, April, Rocket Girls 101 Want Hyojin Choi () Choreographer at 1Million Dance Studio Moana () Choreographer for KARD's "Gunshot" (with Emma) Rozalin () Choreographer for aespa, Weeekly Lee Chaeyeon () Former IZ*ONE member and current solo artist under WM Entertainment.Older sister of current ITZY member Chaeryeong. Emma () Choreographer for KARD's "Gunshot" (with Moana) and Badvillain member. WayB () Dancer for Kai's "Mmmh", Taemin's "Advice" Dolla () Ansso () Lee Su () Dancer for Kai's "Mmmh" (with Noze), and The Boyz Gyuri An () CocaNButter Rihey () Former member of PURPLOW Dance crew which members includes its former leader and now Holy Bang leader Honey J, and current CocaNButter members Gaga, Bicki, Zsun, and Jillin. Choreographer at Bangall Dance Academy ZSun () Former member of PURPLOW Dance crew. Choreographer for KARD. Former Dancehall singer previously signed under Luminant Entertainment. Gaga () Former member of PURPLOW Dance crew. Choreographer at Bangall Dance Academy Bicki () Former member of PURPLOW Dance crew. Jillin () Former member of PURPLOW Dance crew. Prowdmon Monika () Known as the "Teacher of all Dancers" as she was the Dance Professor for most of the contestants during their college years. Choreographer for Amoeba Culture. Member of WooFam. One half of the dance duo MOLIP with fellow PRODWMON member Lip J. Lip J () World-renowned Waacking dancer. Choreographer for Amoeba Culture, Yubin, and Lee Hi. Member of dance duo MOLIP (with PRODWMON member Monika), ElizaBitch, and Team W.O.W. (World Of Waackers). Ham.G () Choreographer at OFD Studio DIA () Choreographer at OFD Studio Hyeily () Choreographer at OFD Studio Rosy () Choreographer at OFD Studio. Former YG Entertainment trainee. Kayday () Choreographer at OFD Studio HolyBang Honey J () Former leader of PURFLOW dance crew alongside current CoCaNButter members Rihey, Gaga, Jillin, ZSun, and Bicki. Long-time choreographer and tour dancer for Jay Park and AOMG. Hertz () Eevee () Tour dancer for Jay Park and AOMG. Taro () Jane () Tour dancer for Jay Park and AOMG. Mull () Lo-A () Belle () Missed the remainder of the show effective Episode 5 due to an ACL injury and underwent surgery. Hook () World of Dance Contestant (4th place), Choreographer of Refund Sisters' "Don't Touch Me", Bibi, Queen Wassabii and Mamamoo Moonbyul "Lunatic". Mentor of MBC's My Teenage Girl Rageon () Student at Aiki's Real Beat Studio. Odd () Student at Aiki's Real Beat Studio. Born () Student at Aiki's Real Beat Studio. Hyowoo () Student at Aiki's Real Beat Studio. Sung Jiyeon () Student at Aiki's Real Beat Studio. Seon Yoonkyung () Student at Aiki's Real Beat Studio.
Episodes Exclusive preview (August 18, 2021) Released on the Mnet TV YouTube channel on August 18, 2021. All participating crews are introduced while they enter into their separate rooms. Each crew produces a personal ranking of all participating crews which is shown to each crew. Each crew are called to the main lobby where they are shown a video of their impressions from other participating crews and then seated at their designated area. Each dancer also selects the person that they think is the weakest dancer, and the selected person receives a "No Respect" Sticker.
The exclusive preview ends with a preview of the first episode where Kang Daniel explains the first mission; various dance battle previews can be seen along with reactions from Kang Daniel, the participants, and the judges.
Episode 1 (August 24, 2021) The first part of the episode is the same as the exclusive preview with the introductions of the crews, personal rankings, impression videos, and "No Respect" selection.
Kang Daniel introduces the judges and explains the first mission, Battle of the Underdog, a dance battle between two participants where one calls out another they think they are better than. The episode ends with the a preview of the battle between HolyBang leader Honey J and CocaNButter leader Rihey, who used to be in the same dance crew but disbanded.
Episode 2 (August 31, 2021) The first mission continues starting with a battle between Lachica's Rian and WayB leader Noze. YGX and CocaNButter were tied with the same number of wins in the final rankings and so YGX leader Leejung had a tiebreaker battle against CocaNButter's Bicki in which YGX was ultimately declared the winner of the first mission. They were given access to the penthouse as the prize.
The second mission, the Rank Mission, was announced: each leader select five dancers including themselves to represent their crew in each rank (Leader Rank, Second Rank, Sub Rank, Assist Rank). Each rank would only have one main dancer, chosen by the judges while the rest will be backup dancers. Each member of each rank made a short choreography to be used in the main dancer evaluation which was voted on by the members of the rank. The main dancer evaluation begins with the Assist Rank in which Prowdmon's Hyeily was chosen. The episode ends with the Leader Rank evaluation with WayB's Noze being chosen.
Episode 3 (September 7, 2021) The second mission continues starting with the main dancer evaluation for the Sub rank. Instead of one dancer from each team, there are two and both members from one team will be the main dancers. Want's Emma and Moana were selected as the main dancers. Lachica's Rian is chosen as main dancer for the Second rank. The choreography video recording is then shown for each rank followed by the choreography video itself. After the choreography video is shown, the main dancer then picks the Worst Dancer in their rank. The chosen Worst Dancers are: Prowdmon's Monika from the Leader Rank, HolyBang's Jane from the Second Rank, YGX's Jihyo and Yeojin from the Sub Rank, and HOOK's Yoonkyung Seon from the Assist Rank.
The chosen Worst Dancers can choose another dancer in their rank who they think is the Worst Dancer to battle, excluding the Main Dancer. The loser, chosen by the remaining dancers, becomes the Worst Dancer for their rank. The chosen battlers are: HolyBang's Honey J from the Leader Rank, WayB's Leesu from the Second Rank, Hook's Born and Hyowoo from the Sub Ranks, and Want's Lee Chaeyeon from the Assist Class. The final Worst Dancers are: HolyBang's Honey J, WayB's Leesu, YGX's Yeojin and Jihyo, and Want's Lee Chaeyeon.
The third mission was announced as the 4 Queens of K-Pop Mission where two crews will battle against each other using the same songs. PROWDMON was chosen by the judges as the MVP Crew and thus are allowed to create the matchup bracket for the third mission, choosing which crews battle each other with whose song. It was also announced that a crew will be eliminated after the next mission.
Episode 4 (September 14, 2021) The third mission begins with a showdown between Prowdmon and WayB with a special video evaluation appearance from CL, whose songs the two crews are using. The performance videos are shown and the fight judges' scores are revealed with Prowdmon coming out on top. The next battle is between CocaNButter and Hook who are performing to Hyuna's songs. Hook wins this round. The next battle is between Lachica and HolyBang, performing to Jessi's song with a special video evaluation appearance of the latter and Psy. Lachica wins. The last battle is between YGX and Want performing to fight judge BoA's songs. YGX wins. After all the fight judges' scores are revealed, the final score is calculated with the Global Popular Vote Score and the Main Dancer and Worst Dancer scores from the last mission. YGX, Prowdmon, Lachica, and Hook win their matchup while Want, WayB, HolyBang, and CocaNButter are up for elimination.
It is announced that two teams will battle it out with the loser being eliminated. CocaNButter is automatically placed in the battle having the lowest overall score. The second team is chosen by YGX, who had the highest overall score. WANT cannot be chosen and is safe from elimination because they had the highest scores among those who lost. YGX chooses WAYB.
CocaNButter faces off against WAYB in a best-of-five dance battle in a similar style to the first mission. CocaNButter comes out on top and WAYB is eliminated.
Episode 5 (September 28, 2021) Note:
The episode starts with the 7 surviving crews enjoying a pool party on the penthouse. Afterwards, each crew went to their respective hideout where the fourth mission, the Mega Crew Mission, is introduced. Each crew will create and perform a choreography with a minimum of 25 performers who must be recruited personally by each crew. Weki Meki's Choi Yoo-jung, Loona's Yves, and Lee Young-ji appear as guest performers with WANT. Girls' Generation's Sooyoung appears as a guest performer with HOOK.
The performances and Judges' scores of Lachica, HolyBang, CocaNButter, Prowdmon, and Hook were shown in this episode.
Episode 6 (October 5, 2021) The Mega Crew Mission continues with the performances and Judges' scores for YGX and Want being revealed. The Global Popular Vote Scores for all the crews are revealed and added to their Judges' scores to calculate the final scores. HolyBang wins this mission with the highest overall score. The three crews with the lowest scores are Lachica, CocaNButter, and Want, and nominated for elimination.
It is announced that two teams will battle it out with the loser being eliminated. Lachica is automatically placed in the battle having the lowest overall score. The second team is chosen by HolyBang, who had the highest overall score. HolyBang chooses Want.
Lachica faces off against Want in a best-of-seven dance battle. After an intense battle, Lachica comes out on top and Want is eliminated.