Aug. 29 -- A backyard wrestler hits an opponent over the head with a fluorescent light bulb, a heavy-set wrestler leaps off a roof on top of his friend, and bodies go flying over the top rope. A ...

Two new video games add more than fists to a brawler's arsenal. Barbed-wire clubs, tag teams and trash cans, anyone? "WWE: SmackDown! Vs. Raw" and "Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood" ...

More than anything else Paul Hough’s “The Backyard” attests to the power of television. The revival of wrestling on TV in a more extreme form in recent years has been accompanied since the mid-1990s ...

Will Ospreay has responded to Jim Cornette's criticism of backyard wrestling. The exchange began on social media after Cornette reacted to Ospreay encouraging a group of fans who were performing ...

Two or three years ago, Paradox Development's Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood might have been a pretty decent entry-level wrestling game. But the reality in the here and now is that ...

ABOUT 45 minutes into "The Backyard" -- a graphic documentary about the disconcerting phenomenon known as backyard wrestling, in which children, teenagers and a few young adults who should know better ...

For generations, suburban kids have turned their backyards into makeshift sports arenas, where fantasies of stardom flourish. That was me, the skinny blond kid, magically transformed into Elgin Baylor ...

There is shocking new evidence that children do imitate what they see on TV. The most popular programming on cable TV is professional wrestling, where well-trained adults appear to beat each other to ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Wrestling games are some of the most popular "sports" games on consoles. However, much of the craze has been tied to the games licensed by popular ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Backflips off of second-story construction sites, weed wackers wielded as weapons, and a roster full of underground wrestling celebrities... These are ...