Gay wrestling companies
When All Elite Wrestling (AEW) was launched in 2019, CEO and co-founder Tony Khan sought to sign the foremost talent he could find regardless of race, gender or sexuality. After coming across Nyla Rose, he knew he found someone who could be a cornerstone of the promotion’s women’s division.
“She’s a tremendous, forceful , monster heel wrestler who bullies people,” said Khan, the son of Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan. “And I thought she reminded me of a female version of some of the big, bruising, badass wrestlers of my childhood.”
But Khan was unaware of the history he made by adding Rose to his roster, as she became the first openly transgender wrestler to sign with a major American professional wrestling promotion.
“I had no idea Nyla was trans,” he said. “I consideration Nyla was a great wrestler and when I create out, I reflection, ‘Well that’s superb , too.’ I didn’t expect that, but it’s awesome.”
Rose had built a designate for herself by working for independent promotions in America and Japan. She knew she’d be entering a whole new spotlight by signing with AEW, the first wrestling company besides WWE to secure a deal with a top-25 cable network since WCW went bankrupt in 2001.
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IMPACT Wrestling Teams Up With Major, International LGBT Sports Organization
Press Release / April 1, 2022 / by TNA Wrestling Staff
IMPACT Wrestling announced today a novel partnership with the North American Lgbtq+ Amateur Athletic Alliance (NAGAAA) that will put IMPACT in line with major professional sports leagues, teams and other major worldwide brands that also companion with NAGAAA.
Formed in 1977, NAGAAA is a 501c(3) sports organization primarily for the LGBT community, driven to provide safe softball environments across North America. NAGAAA runs the annual Homosexual Softball World Series, which annually attracts 200+ teams from across North America and is the largest annual LGBT single-sport, week-long athletic competition globally. Teams from the 47 member cities of NAGAAA participate annually.
IMPACT has welcomed members of NAGAAA teams to its wrestling shows this year. In February, members of the Derby Metropolis Pride League in Louisville and members of the Unused Orleans Softball League attended IMPACT shows. In March, members of the Town of Brotherly Cherish Softball League attended IMPACT shows in Philadelphia.
Members of the Pegasus Slowpitch Softball Association
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Ganon Jones Jr. (far left) flies through the air while Duke Davis throws O'Shay Edwards to the mat during Enjoy Wrestling's Odyssey Battle Royale on March 9, 2024.
Enjoy Wrestling began in 2020 with the credo “wrestling is for everyone,” and since then, says Kurt Hackimer, co-owner of the Pittsburgh-based independent wrestling promotion company, it’s kept to that.
At a recent sold-out reveal of Enjoy Wrestling: Odyssey at Mr. Smalls Theater, tag team act The Runway stood at a corner of the wrestling ring heckling the audience. The fashionable duo, made up of Calvin Couture, billed as “the fashionista of professional wrestling,” and Mr. Design Tyler Klein — known to pull a tape measure out of his trunks a la a disapproving Tim Gunn — jokingly scolded a group of fans, “Go place to your husbands!”
“We’re married to each other, we don’t have husbands!” one fan, wearing an Enjoy t-shirt, shouted back.
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Professional Gay Wrestling
While searching Amazon Prime recently, I was pleasantly surprised to locate, of all things, episodes of Memphis wrestling in the video library. But there was even more content available for any connoisseur of both excellent wrestling and bad wrestling: a collection of death matches between Cactus Jack and Terry Funk, some truly awful-looking wrestling movies I’d never heard of, and something called, Professional Gay Wrestling.
My first interrogate was, “Is this Secure for Work?”
But my second question was “Why same-sex attracted professional wrestling?” (Or “professional gay wrestling”, as it’s called, which led me back to my first question).
I mean, if same-sex attracted men want to monitor guys with great bodies and revealing outfits grapple with each other, there are a number of other wrestling promotions out there – specifically, all of them.
Let’s face it – wrestling is a very gay sport, and has been since the days of the ancient Greeks. Those guys used to wrestle naked, which is just about the gayest thing two men can do short of having sex with each other.
Which they also did.
Actually watching PGW raised even more questions.
First of all, announcer Bruc