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professional wrestling

two Bolivian women square off in a wrestling ring
Sports
How Indigenous women revolutionized Bolivian wrestling
A poster of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan mugging for the camera.
Culture
The secretive language of professional wrestling
Luchador Perro Aguayo Jr. lays motionless on the mat during the match in which he died.
Sports
‘They didn’t just see a wrestler die, they watched a superhero die’
Andre
Arts, Culture & Media
It took a graphic novel to tell the larger than life story of wrestler Andre the Giant
Chicken Wilson competing in Peru's "Lucha Libro" - writing a story story in five minutes.
Arts, Culture & Media
Peru makes book writing into a spectator sport and invites aspiring writers into combat
Sports
Wrestling As a Solution to Poverty in Senegal
Almanac/Battle of the Camels