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Senegalese Laamb Wrestling - Marabout Ritual

The most popular sport in Senegal isn’t soccer—it’s laamb, combining Greco-Roman wrestling moves with eclectic pre-fight rituals and dances. Laamb’s appeal has skyrocketed as the nation’s economy has plunged, and the top stars are the Michael Jordans of their country. In this segment filmed for 'VICE' on HBO, Thomas Morton meets a shaman who bathes him in a series of potions to give him an edge in his upcoming laamb match. Full story

The Woman Who Wrestled Bears

Deanna Booher has lived enough for five lives and had just as many aliases. Queen Adrena, Juicy Joy, Matilda The Hun, and Queen Kong are just some of the names she's gone under for her various guises. She's been arrested and jailed, she's wrestled a seven-foot grizzly bear, and s… Full story

All Around Losing - How to Be a Man

Harry normally evades conflict by running away or nervously laughing. He would like to become a man someday, so he endured a physically draining work out with a Krav Maga expert and went to a shotgun-training session at a gun range with an NRA-certified Israeli. Watch as Harry's Full story

Throwing Punches with Theo Ehret

For almost 20 years, Theo was the staff photographer at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles. During his tenure, Theo documented all of the mayhem of both the boxing matches and the professional wrestling that went on inside the walls of the Olympic. Full story

Popping the Marks

Who Will End the Undertaker's Streak at Wrestlemania?

Yes, the Undertaker’s 20-match undefeated streak at WrestleMania, which began back in 1991, needs to be broken. It’s wrestling’s cycle of life. The stars of each new generation must feed on the bones of the generation before them. Full story

Rule Britannia

The British Wrestler

From the debris of Britain's 1970s pantomime wrestling, a new legion of wrestlers who are using their camera phones to shoot promo videos for YouTube has been born. In the first part of 'The British Wrestler,' we meet Grado, the ultimate wrestling fanboy who has finally been give… Full story

Is Darts the New Wrestling?

It's just as dramatic, but much more "real" and three times as drunk. Full story

Dressed To Fight

Cholitas Are Bolivia’s Favorite Wrestlers

On a recent trip to Bolivia, we heard about an indigenous women's freestyle wrestling called Lucha Libre, Cholita style. Full story

Wrestling Chez Nous

Canada has always produced world-class wrestlers—the Hart brothers, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, Killer Kowalski—but Quebec breeds the craziest ones of all. Full story