Professional wrestling has undoubtedly been providing entertainment for several decades now. Wrestling, which started as an actual sport, has now become a billion-dollar endeavor. Although the results of matches are scripted, the fascination of people going against each other and putting their bodies on the line has always captured everyone’s …
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A chance meeting at a New York City hotel brought together multi-award-winning actor Gael García Bernal and Roger Ross Williams, an Academy Award-winning director who wanted to discuss Mexico’s Luchadores Exóticos, specifically trailblazer Saúl Armendáriz, better known as Cassandro. Luchadores Exóticos are male wrestlers who performed in drag in the …
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“The Iron Claw” stars Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White as two members of one of the most famous (or infamous) wrestling families of all time: the Von Erichs. Led by their fierce father, the Von Erich brothers became mainstays of the professional wrestling world in the heyday of the …
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The Iron Sheik, an American-Iranian professional wrestling legend, has died. He was 81. A representative for The Iron Sheik, whose real name is Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, shared the news to the wrestler’s Twitter account on Wednesday. “Today, we gather with heavy hearts to bid farewell to a true legend, …
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By now, most individuals know that prime-time wrestling is scripted, however that’s not stopping World Wrestling Entertainment — generally often known as the WWE — from pursuing the choice to permit folks to legally bet on its matches. CNBC experiences that WWE is in talks with state playing regulators in …
Read More »Authorities looked for a motive for the gunman who killed 10 folks at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance membership throughout Lunar New Yr celebrations, slayings that despatched a wave of concern via Asian American communities and solid a shadow over festivities nationwide. The suspect, 72-year-old Huu Can Tran, was discovered …
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Last Updated: January 23, 2023, 17:10 IST File photo of Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari. (Image: news18) Other top stories this evening: KL Rahul-Athiya Shetty Wedding: Why Virat Kohli, Anushka Sharma and Hardik Pandya Skipped Ceremony; Republic Day 2023: When, Where and How to Buy Tickets for R-Day Parade and …
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It has been an unprecedented face-off in Indian sports – never ever had Olympic medallists made sexual harassment allegations against a federation chief, who is also a ruling party MP. Late on Friday, Round One of this battle seemed to have gone the players’ way. India’s top grapplers called off …
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The Sports Ministry on Saturday suspended Wrestling Federation of India’s (WFI) assistant secretary Vinod Tomar, a fallout of the grapplers’ allegations of sexual harassment and corruption against the sports body’s chief, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. It has decided to suspend Tomar, “with immediate effect, to ensure proper functioning of WFI”. …
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Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is a BJP Lok Sabha MP from Kaiserganj in Uttar Pradesh. (File) New Delhi: Under pressure to resign from his position over allegations of sexual exploitation of women wrestlers, Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chairman Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has said he will “expose” the “political …
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Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday assured protesting wrestlers that stern action would be taken if any Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) coach or official is found guilty, sources told NDTV. Thakur met with the wrestlers including Babita Phogat, Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia among others after their second day …
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Washington CNN — Professional wrestling is known for its outlandish, dramatic stories that have captivated generations. It’s an athletic soap opera built on emotional drama with wrestlers sometimes scheming in the background for months only to make their move at the opportune moment, drawing crazed reactions from arenas packed with …
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