Between my high school and college years I was an avid pro wrestling fan. I wouldn’t miss a show. But in all those years of guys grabbing at each other’s naked bodies, I never saw anything as strange as what I saw Monday night on TNA Impact. It was supposed to be the coming out [...]
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Hudson Taylor finshes fourth in NCAAs
Saturday update: Hudson Taylor wound up fourth in the 197-pound class. He won his first match Saturday, 10-0, then lost in the third-place final, 4-2. Friday update: Hudson Taylor lost, 1-0, to Craig Brester of Nebraska in the semifinals. Taylor will wrestle for third place Saturday. Share on Facebook
Hudson Taylor wins ACC wrestling title
University of Maryland wrestler Hudson Taylor, profiled on Outsports for his strong support of gay rights, won the 197-pound class at the ACC wrestling championships on Saturday and was named outstanding wrestler. Taylor, ranked third nationally in his weight class, won the title by pinning Dennis Drury of North Carolina at the 4:10 mark. Taylor [...]
College wrestler a champion of gay rights
University of Maryland wrestler Hudson Taylor is one of the most unique athletes I have spoken with. He is 36-2 on the mat, obsessed with magic tricks and a dedicated activist. Though straight, Taylor is a huge champion of gay rights and even wore a Human Rights Campaign sticker during competition. “For me and my [...]
Weekend hot jock: Ted DiBiase, Jr.
Wrestling fans of the last 30 years will know the name Ted DiBiase. For fans in the ’80s and ’90s, it means the Million Dollar Man, Money Inc., and bodyguard Virgil. To fans of this decade, Ted DiBiase Jr. is synonymous with nearly naked hotness! The 27-year-old son of the Million Dollar Man has been [...]
Wrestling’s gay stereotypes have to go
Robert Skvarla, Inside Pulse‘s wrestling columnist, has written a fantastic piece about homophobia in wrestling. His premise: The use of stereotypes in entertainment is cheap and offensive, and wrestling should look long and hard at the constant labeling of gay characters as stereotypical heels. These stereotypes in some way all confirm society’s worst views on [...]
Weekend hot jock: Best of 2009
We featured several dozen athletes in our Weekend Hot Jock series this year, so we figured we’d start the new year with a recap of the best of 2009. Maybe the top standout was Minnesota wide receiver Eric Decker. See other top picks after the jump… Share on Facebook
Hulk Hogan: TNA going head-to-head with WWE
Our friends at TNA wrestling have set their sites on surpassing the WWE as the world’s biggest wrestling brand, and we’re going to get our first showdown on Monday, Jan. 4. Hulk Hogan, who is now part of TNA, announced Saturday night that TNA is going up against WWE’s Monday Night Raw. And while he [...]
WWE star Chris Jericho relishes use of gay slur
WWE star Chris Jericho is in some hot water after using some foolish language about Muslims and gays. Of course, he tossed around “fag.” Is this a growing trend? What’s discouraging is that he acknowledges that cameras are there and even jokes about the TMZ headline he’ll make. He’s proud of it. His comment after [...]
Pro wrestling fans upset at sport being called gay
Want to piss off some pro wrestling fans? Write that their sport is gay. In a “Best Of” list from the Village Voice, one of their writers was clearly having some fun when he voted the Ring of Honor pro wrestling circuit the “Best Place to Watch Straight Men Get All Homoerotic.” Wrestling is gay. [...]
Gays and the Hogans
VH1′s Brooke Knows Best follows the daughter of Hulk Hogan. And if you’ve watched it, you know that every episode features a gay guy in her roommate, Glenn Packard (right, with Brooke). The show dips in and out of sexual orientation from time to time; In one episode, Glenn went on a “straight” date while [...]
Drag queens wanted in wrestler murder
Two drag queens are apparently at the heart of an investigation into the murder of two ‘midget’ wrestlers in Mexico. According to Australia’s Daily Telegraph: Brothers Alberto and Alejandro Jimenez, known as Parkita and Espectrito II, were found dead in a hotel room last month. Police had first said they were looking for two hookers, [...]
Review: ESPN and the Nebraska porn wrestlers
The gay porn angle was the secondary focus on ESPN “Outside The Lines” look at the dismissal of Paul Donahoe and Kenny Jordan from the University of Nebraska wrestling team after they posed naked on Fratmen.tv. (Complete video segment below). It wasn’t as if ESPN was trying to downplay any gay angle, but there really [...]
Paul Donahoe scheduled to make porn return
The porn career of Paul Donahoe, the star collegiate wrestler kicked off his team for appearing on a gay porn site, looks like it’s not over. He is scheduled once again to bare all for the same site, Fratmen.tv. Donahoe appeared on Fratmen as “Nash,” shown solo naked and masturbating last summer. When his identity [...]
ESPN to tackle gay porn wrestling story
EPSN’s “Outside the Lines” show addresses the dismissal of former Nebraska wrestlers Kenny Jordan and Paul Donahoe after they appeared nude on Fratmen.tv, a gay porn site (see our archive here). The show airs Sunday June 14 at 9 a.m. EDT on ESPN and noon EDT on ESPN News (see video preview above). The program [...]
Win wrestling gold, earn $250,000
USA Wrestling has really sweetened the pot to keep its best wrestlers from defecting to mixed martial arts: $250,000 if you win an Olympic gold, $50,000 for a silver and $25,000 for a bronze, the New York Times reports. “This is bigger than just wrestling,” [U.S. wrestler Henry] Cejudo said Thursday in a telephone interview. [...]
Forget Chris Cooley. Here’s Matt Striker, nude!
So you guys all peeked when the Redskins’ Chris Cooley ‘accidentally’ showed his wang. Well, I wanted to bring you news of a new athelete’s package readily available for all to see. The WWE’s Matt Striker sent some nude shots to someone who then sent them over to someone else…. and so on and so [...]
Quick hits: Magic, Brady, Indians, French
SI columnist thinks Magic fans have reason to worry about potential favorable treatment of LeBron James from the refs. Ever hear of a guy named Michael Jordan? While relocated WWE event in L.A. mocks beating up the Nuggets, Nuggets beat up the Lakers. Peter King has an interesting column this week with tidbits on Tom [...]
Offbeat sports: Senegalese wrestling
I am always interested by the variety of different sports practiced throughout the world, so a big thanks to Finneye for this image and link to a photo gallery about Senegalese wrestling. Wrote photographer David Lacina: It is … the most popular sport in Senegal, also called Laamb in local language. Traditionally, young men used [...]
The Lakers Aren’t Denver’s Only Opponent
In one of those quirky situations, it appears that Denver is supposed to host game 4 of the Western Conference Finals of the NBA on Monday the 25th. The only problem is, the venue is already sold out for another event the same night — WWE Monday Night Raw. Vince McMahon in typical understated, classy [...]