Awesome Wrestling

From Andre the Giant to The Texas Tornado, Pop Chart’s print celebrates the many fanciful and flashy names assumed by wrestlers. It includes more than 500 names, organized and connected by the traits they each share. It measures 18″ x 24″ and comes unframed, framed, or mounted on a birch plywood panel.

Writer/director/actor Stephen Merchant is back with an offbeat comedy-drama about a family who stumbles their way into the world of professional wrestling, and the daughter who goes on to achieve success in the ring. Based on the true story of WWE star Paige.

Ever wonder how to become a pro sumo wrestler? Well, in Japan, growing up on Amami Ōshima gives you a big head start. Great Big Story paid a visit to this island, which is known for its long history of cultivating youth to become some of the country’s greatest sumos.

“It’s not a fake sport… It’s a real story that we’re telling.” Director Tim Grant introduces us to pro wrestler Cauliflower Chase Brown, who reminds us the action we see on stage is backed up by a desire to entertain and satisfy an audience with a heroes tale for the underdog.

“It was something I was pretty good at. And then it became a disease.” Ric Flair was once the superstar of superstars in the pro wrestling world. But he was anything but a role model, whether in or out of the ring. The documentary premieres 11/7/17 on ESPN.

The LEGO of pro wrestling returns. Fire Pro Wrestling World offers a ton of customization options and Steam Workshop integration, so given enough time you can pit the Ultimate Warrior against your dad and the Snapchat hot dog. Probably. Also coming to PS4.

This new Netflix series tells a fictionalized retelling of the story of the 1980’s phenomenon that was the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a motley crew of women who became a pop culture phenomenon. From the folks behind Orange is the New Black and Nurse Jackie.

Someone insults The Undertaker. Lights dim, he arrives! Chair to the face! Oh look out, it’s that Sweet Chin Music! Going up! Bah gawd! Hardcore pro wrestling fans RackaRacka perfectly sum up the beats and beatdowns of Wrestlemania.

In one of his matches in the British pro wrestling league Insane Championship Wrestling, Graeme Stevely aka Grado pumped up the crowd with an unconventional theme song. The mostly male audience took it all in stride. Skip to 0:35.

WrestleMania fans, get out your wallets. Stern Pinball’s latest machine features the sights and sounds of the WWE ring. The LE model gets a 5.7″ full color video screen, Hulk Hogan’s autograph and other goodies. Go inside the machine here.

Iranian wrestler Iman Sadeghikoukandeh (in the red shorts) looks like he’s about to lose his footing, as his opponent Rashidov Gadzhimurad has him by the leg. All we can say is you can’t keep a good man down.

James Brian Hellwig was best known as wrestling’s Ultimate Warrior. Sadly, he passed away on April 8th at the age of 54. Just one day before, he gave this chilling and inspirational speech during WrestleMania 30. Rest in peace.

(NSFW: Language) It’s no secret that pro wrestling matches are for just for show. YouTuber Dinu Bhaskar compiled some of the conversations between wrestlers, where the stars call out moves and check on each other.

Whether you think pro wrestling is just a bunch of cheap theatrics or not, you’ll agree how dangerous the sport can be after viewing this edit of the WWE’s most painful moments. Maybe they shouldn’t keep so many ladders around.

YouTuber aws0607 caught this adult panda wrestling with her younger friend and refusing to let the cub go. We’re pretty sure she caught the little one in a piledriver at one point. The fun continues here.

The guys from GameFails show off one of the “totally real” moments in the glitch-filled WWE ’13 video game. The answer is simple, really… David Copperfield is now a pro wrestler.

Nathan Barnatt’s alter-ego Keith Apicary can’t stand pretty boy pro-wrestler Dolph Ziggler. Keith’s got the skills, and is ready to take him on. He won World Rumble 13 times (on Sega Genesis) after all.

Two cats enter, one cat leaves. Or something like that. Watch as these two feline opponents work on their best pro-wrestling moves in the SmackDown ring. Let’s get ready to… awwwwww.

This is Michael McGillicutty, son of pro wrestling great Mr. Perfect. And this is his moment. Starting from this. From now. At this moment. From this moment on. Now we know who this kid’s idol is.

Chikara knows what it’s doing – we all know pro wrestling is a fake sport, so why not pile on the fakery? Hypnosis is a great wrestling move, sure, but check out what this dude brought to the fight.

We’re pretty sure that Jesse T. Cook’s new film Monster Brawl is the first (and possibly last) of its kind – the Monster/Wrestler genre. Bonus points for the “Fight of the Living Dead” line.

During the semi-finals of the CZW World Tag Team Title Tournament, The Osirian Portal pulled one of the most egregious, rhythmic moves we’ve ever seen. How are we not hypnotized? (Thanks Alvin!)

Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan star in this dramedy about an disenchanted attorney who spends his nights coaching high-school wrestling, and stumbles onto a star wrestler in the course of his business.