The main objective in wrestling is to pin the opponent, which is achieved by holding his or her shoulder blades to the mat for about a second. A pin, also known as a "fall," automatically ends the ...

The Soviet Union tops the all-time list with 62 gold medals won in Olympic wrestling. Among current countries, the United States leads with 57 gold medals. Who has the most medals in Olympic wrestling ...

St. Michael-Albertville lost a heartbreaker a year ago, squandering a 32-9 advantage to fall to Hastings in stunning fashion, with the Raiders finishing the duel with three straight pins to win ...

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio – The first day of action at the 29th Walsh Jesuit Ironman wrestling tournament is in the books and the best of the best showed up and showed out. Teams and individuals did ...

I love the theater of pro wrestling so much I wrote a novel about it – but the power of kayfabe has its limits ...

Before it airs tape-delayed on Fox, Friday’s WWE SmackDown will be shown live in some markets overseas.

Anarchy was loosed on AEW Double or Nothing and when the blood-dimmed tide receded in Las Vegas, The Elite stood victorious over the AEW faithful, thanks to "The Scapegoat" Jack Perry, who ...

Having recently lost its bid to host the Super Bowl of professional wrestling, Minneapolis has picked itself up off the mat and pinned down a major World Wrestling Entertainment attraction.

This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The khan dreams of a car. Never mind that there isn’t a road. His father, the previous khan, spent his life ...

It is easy to forget that the MeToo movement started as an act of speech. Beginning in 2006 with activist Tarana Burke and then more widely in 2017, women used the phrase on social media to share ...

The inaugural WWE King & Queen of the Ring pay-per-view, emanating from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, may not be equivalent to WrestleMania, but it’s a critical show en route to SummerSlam. Among the ...

Lexi Vosburg never thought she’d be plastering the posters to the Chesapeake High walls. The text is plain and blue with a QR code. The images are simple, too: two girls, wrestling. The message ...