Professional wrestling

two Bolivian women square off in a wrestling ring

How Indigenous women revolutionized Bolivian wrestling

July 5, 2019Sports

The more they fight, the more popular they become — and the more pushback they receive.

A poster of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan mugging for the camera.

The secretive language of professional wrestling

March 9, 2018Culture

Luchador Perro Aguayo Jr. lays motionless on the mat during the match in which he died.

‘They didn’t just see a wrestler die, they watched a superhero die’

March 25, 2015Sports

It took a graphic novel to tell the larger than life story of wrestler Andre the Giant

May 14, 2014Arts, Culture & Media

Chicken Wilson competing in Peru's "Lucha Libro" - writing a story story in five minutes.

Peru makes book writing into a spectator sport and invites aspiring writers into combat

September 30, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Wrestling As a Solution to Poverty in Senegal

August 15, 2013Sports

Replacing soccer as the top sport, bare-knuckle wrestling is the only way many kids see out of their desperate poverty.

Almanac/Battle of the Camels

August 14, 2013

This week, we have facts about camel wrestling. In Turkey, camel-mating season is underway and the male tendency to compete for mates is harnessed in this spectator sport.