Sports
April 1, 2022
As WrestleMania 38 Kicks Off, the Undertaker Reflects on His Texas Roots
From playing hoops at Texas Wesleyan to dropping Tombstone pile drivers at Jerry World, Mark Calaway recalls how he rose to WWE superstardom.
Wrestling
Sports
February 8, 2022
Sumo Is Getting Big in Texas
Fighters in one of the state’s newest sumo clubs, in Dallas, want the sport to keep growing—without losing the traditions that define it.
Sports
June 24, 2021
State Champion Wrestler Fights to Show Fairness in Sports Isn’t Tied to Gender
Mack Beggs, a two-time Texas high school champ, is one of three trans athletes featured in the Hulu documentary 'Changing the Game.'
By
Dan Solomon
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Sports
January 7, 2021
Texas’s Newest Wrestling Venture Elevates Women Inside the Ring and Behind the Scenes
“We can sell. And we need to be respected.”
Books
November 20, 2020
The Thrills of Houston’s 1970s-Era Friday Night Wrestling Come Alive in a Stunning Photo Book
Nearly fifty years ago, photographer Geoff Winningham spent months documenting wrestlers, and the fans who cheered them on, for his book ‘Friday Night in the Coliseum.’
Sports
February 24, 2016
Let’s Get Ready to Rassle
Party World Rasslin', a wrestling league cum theater troupe, is keeping things weird in Austin.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Television • Stone Cold Steve Austin
Lord of the ring.
By
John Spong
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Sports
September 30, 2005
Six Brothers
The tragedy of the Von Erichs—the state’s first family of pro wrestling—is well known not just to fans of the sport but to the many groupies who oohed and aahed at the matinee-idol athletes over the years. Still, you haven’t really heard the story until it’s told by the sole
By
John Spong
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Sports
April 30, 1976
Learning the Ropes
Wrestling isn’t fixed; it was never broken.