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Wale Tried To Beat A Guy Up At WWE Raw Last Night
Wale has had a busy 24 hours. Before hitting the club with DeSean Jackson and engaging in a Socratic dialogue with the ESPN assignment desk, he attended WWE Raw in Washington D.C. While there, he had a brief physical confrontation with a fan who was talking shit to him on Twitter....

Ohio State AD Gets $18,000 Because A Wrestler Won A Title
OSU athletic director Gene Smith will receive a bonus of one week's salary—more than $18,000—because Buckeye wrestler Logan Steiber won his weight class at this weekend's NCAA championships. ...

Muralist Turns Her Kids' Room Into A WWF Arena
Redditor CactusHam has a pretty awesome mom. When he was a kid, she asked him and his brother what kind of mural they wanted her to paint in their room, and they chose a pro wrestling theme. She did not disappoint. ...

Scott Hall On Pic With Benoit And Undertaker: "Me, Dead Man And Taker"
Scott Hall tweeted this "1986-ish" picture of himself, his enormous mustache, Chris Benoit, and the Undertaker with the caption "Me, Dead Man and Taker." Although "Dead Man," or "Deadman," is the name for Mark Calaway's original Undertaker/mortician gimmick, he's already referenced as "Taker," so we...

The Amazing True Story Of Victor, The Wrestling Bear
In the 2008 Will Ferrell movie Semi-Pro, which centers on a fictional ABA basketball team, there's a scene where Jackie Moon, played by Ferrell, wrestles with a grizzly bear at halftime of a game. It's an absurd, ridiculous, preposterous scene, and it was, believe it or not, based on a real promotio...

Former Soccer Player Sues College Over "Domination" Wrestling Drill
Former Benedictine College soccer player Zach Robertson is suing his former school for a "mandatory" wrestling drill in 2012 that cut his season short....

Watch Your Super Bowl Highlights As Narrated By "J.R." Jim Ross
Look, tonight's Super Bowl XLVIII sucked. It lacked everything to which we were looking forward—from Omaha, to Beast Mode to, well, competitiveness. We made things a bit better, though, with the help of wrestling legend Jim Ross. Here's every big play from tonight's game as called by J.R. Enjoy....


Chael Sonnen Gave An Olympian Money So He Could Go Train In Russia
One of the annoying things about Fox Sports pundit/middling professional fighter Chael Sonnen's troll routine is that if you talk to fight people, they'll swear that in real life he's actually a pretty good guy. Occasionally he'll even drop the pro wrestling heel bit in public and come off as unusua...

Botched Wrestling Move At Ring Of Honor Show Nearly Breaks A Neck
What you see is Roddy Strong taking a Styles Clash from A.J. Styles very, very awkwardly at a Ring of Honor show. (Here's the normal result of that move.) The finish was awful, but it could have been even worse....

What The NFL Can Learn From WWE About Head Injuries
Originally published at Bloomberg View....

The History Of The WWF, In One Beautifully Obsessive Poster
Graphic designer Scott Modrzynski spent over two years creating a cubist, minimalist chart of the history of the World Wrestling Federation, a portion of which you see above. RIP Doink the Clown. ...

The best true wrestling tales: Good friend David Shoemaker chose some of his favorite real wrestling anecdotes over at the New York Post, including Captain Lou Albano pissing off the mob and Randy Savage's obsession with his wife, Miss Elizabeth. Shoemaker has a book coming out this week. Buy it. [N...

Bring On The Bad Guys
Check out this cool series of pictures by the Toronto-based visual artist, Hieram Weintraub. ...

"He's Trying To Charm The Cobra": Wrestling Is The Weirdest
I don't know either, guys. Just watch it. ...

Here's Don Mattingly Pretending To Be A Wrestler
Don Mattingly and the Dodgers just clinched the NL West. As we offer our congratulations on a job well done, please enjoy this video of Donnie Baseball pretending Al Trautwig's gonna run wild on Tony Kubek. ...

WWF-Themed Fantasy Football Draft Features Impressive Costumes
On Tuesday, we brought you pictures from a reader who recently held a Game of Thrones-themed fantasy football draft. To our surprise, there are other people out there who like to play dress up while drafting a fantasy football team. This is a apparently thing that people do, and it's a thing that th...

Sometimes ESPN is alright. Friend of the program Eric Nusbaum writes about gay and transgender Mexican wrestlers and the people who play them, and it's wonderful. "The beso is the ultimate expression of the exótico's differentness in the ring—the pinnacle of lucha libre as slapstick comedy." [ESPN]...


Penn State And Iowa Wrestling Coaches Schedule Meet On Twitter
Well, this was easy....