Wrestling’s new golden era, packed into a Toronto church basement
TV shows like Netflix’s ’GLOW’ help mainstream viewers better understand wrestling. Rather than campy combat, they see performance art. And in Toronto, they see the real thing.
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Pro wrestling’s surprising Prairie roots
A Lakehead University scholar provides a ’matside people’s history’ of pro wrestling in 19th-century Manitoba
Inside the crazy, rowdy world of pro wrestling in Montreal
Text and photographs by Quebec bureau chief Martin Patriquin
’Push yourself to total self-destruction’
The Ultimate Warrior, wrestling’s mad genius, passes on in a nimbus of glory