Wrestling

Vladimir Uruimagov claims gays decided to remove the sport

Last week, WWE Hall of Fame wrestler Shawn Michaels tweeted a biting response to a fan who asked him a question about his hairline. While the tweet has since been removed from Michaels’ Twitter feed, Wrestling News Source reported it as: Another Dude obsessed w/my hair #homo On Sunday, Michaels tweeted this "apology": Last week, […]

Former pro wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan is suing his ex-wife for defamation after she said he cheated on her with fellow wrestler Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake and was violent and abusive (Brutus is filing his own suit). It sounds like a nasty marital spat but what struck me was Hogan’s defense: “If any of that […]

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 […]

Hudson Taylor 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. Hudson Taylor Saturday update: Hudson Taylor wound […]

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 […]

Pride Pro Wrestling, the first professional wrestling league dedicated to serving the LGBT community, have announced they’re holding their inaugural show on March 28, 2009 in York, PA. They’ve collected a lot of out LGBT talent from around the pro wrestling community and are going to battle it out to find out who’s the “best […]

Note – This post is merely an excuse to have a picture of Randy Orton on the main page. The 2009 Royal Rumble is in the books and the winner, punching a ticket to the Wrestlemania main event, is Grade-A stud Randy Orton. Storylines may intercede, but as it is right now, Randy will get […]

Shaun McCarron and Paul Anderson, the gay couple known collectively as Shaun & Paul from The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency (Oxygen Network), made their debut Thursday with Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling on “The Spin Cycle,” which is TNA’s new, weekly YouTube broadcast. TNA Superstar Angelina Love, one half of The Beautiful People tag team […]

In Finneye's post on the Swedish wrestler who threw away his bronze medal, he gave some of the background surrounding the players involved. For another look at the act, we got this from Roger Brigham, himself a wrestler at the Gay Games. Writes Brigham: "Look at the expression on the Swede's face. He's screaming because […]

Not all Olympic medal winners are happy. Extremely unhappy was the 33-year old Armenian-born Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian who was handed a bronze medal in the men’s Greco-Roman 84kg wrestling category. The Globe and Mail, Canada reports: Abrahamian lost a 3-1 decision to Italy‘s Andrea Minguzzi in the 84-kilogram Greco-Roman semi-final at the Chinese Agricultural […]

For those guys-who-like-guys pro wrestling fans (isn’t that all of them? Anyhow…), we’ve gotten wind of a blog called “Pro Wrestling for Bisexuals” with the tagline, “No, this isn’t porn.” Well, maybe the blog isn’t porn, but as a connoisseur of late ’80s/early ’90s WWF, circa Hulk Hogan, Earthquake and Randy Savage, I can tell […]

This just in . . . Pacman Jones is the TNA tag team champion and still hasn’t stepped foot in the ring. I kinda want to see this match to see how it unfolded . . . On the first Sunday of the 2007 football season, Adam “Pacman” Jones became No. 1 – in the […]