TAMPA — Professional wrestlers have a nickname for Michael Dockins. The “Gimmick Attorney.” A “gimmick” is a term for a wrestler’s in-ring persona and anything that defines their ...

The German professional freestyle wrestling league, Bundesliga Ringen, remains something of a mystery to me. I’ve known about its existence for a while, but have yet to uncover much information ...

This paper presents a case of jointly produced passion work. Passion work is emotional labor designed to elicit a strong response from subjects through an impression of extreme states such as pain, ...