If you’ve never watched a pro wrestling match before–which is to say, if you’ve never been an 11-year-old boy–it might be hard to understand why people are still watching it now. It’s been almost 20 ...

While professional sports have obviously become far more inclusive and diverse in recent years, pro wrestling and other forms of combat sports have long given athletes from around the world a place to ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – By the mid-1990s Hulk Hogan had left the World Wrestling Federation (today’s WWE). Vince McMahon had just beat the federal government in court following allegations the WWF had ...

In May 1986, Nikolai Volkoff and the Iron Sheik were still headlining house shows for the World Wrestling Federation. “Macho Man” Randy Savage wore the intercontinental title, and the world was just ...

Hardcore legend Funk, 72, came from a wrestling family in Indiana that relocated to Amarillo. Like his father and brother, he could absorb unthinkable punishment, and he did so over a long career that ...