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Vince McMahon with wrestlers in the 1990s. Courtesy of Netflix

January 14, 2025

Wrestlers’ welfare has improved since the 1990s – but they still have a fight on their hands

Claire Warden, Loughborough University

While it is one of the biggest entertainment industries in the world, wrestling’s troubled history is difficult to reconcile for both fans and wrestlers.

Bullet Club wrestlers, from left to right, Nick Jackson, Adam ‘Hangman’ Page and Matt Jackson are at the forefront of an indie wrestling boom. Bruno Silveria/Ring of Honor

January 18, 2018

How social media helped fuel indie wrestling’s resurgence

Bill Zimmerman, Penn State

Could the WWE’s grip on professional wrestling be weakening?

A GLOWing performance. Erica Parise/Netflix

July 7, 2017

Britain’s real female wrestler activists are better and badder than GLOW’s could ever be

Tom Phillips, University of East Anglia

WWE and Netflix’s GLOW wrestlers will never be as strong as Britain’s underground girl gang of wrestlers

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Tom Phillips
Lecturer in Humanities, University of East Anglia
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Lecturer, Department of Advertising and Public Relations, Penn State
Claire Warden
Professor of Performance and Physical Culture, Loughborough University

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