Wrestling

Vinesh Phogat was 100 grams away from being allowed to take her place in a gold medal final. Now, she's announced she's retiring from the sport.

It's a long, steep and winding road for Australia's Olympic wrestlers as they train in the remote mountains of Kyrgyzstan with eyes on gold in Paris.

It's a long and winding road to Paris for Australian wrestler Jayden Lawrence, currently participating in an intense high-altitude training camp in rural Kyrgyzstan.

The world of performance-based wrestling is attracting a new breed of women keen to break stereotypes.

Wrestling promoters say more women are becoming involved in the performance-based sport, shirking sexist stereotypes in the process. 

Jayden Lawrence and Georgii Okorokov will compete in freestyle at the Paris Olympics, ending Australia's participation drought.

Thousands of fans, some who've travelled across the world, are eagerly anticipating the first World Wrestling Entertainment event in Perth since 2018.

Nethmi Poruthotage's coach had to pawn his gold necklace to help her compete at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Now she's hoping to pay him back in Paris. 

Recent allegations of sexual abuse by the former owner of the WWE are just the latest in a decades-long history of misconduct claims.

US professional wrestling icon Vince McMahon resigns from World Wrestling Entertainment's parent company TKO the day after a former employee files a federal lawsuit accusing him and another former executive of serious sexual misconduct.

WWE wrestler Windham Rotunda, who went by the stage name Bray Wyatt, is being remembered as a "defining superstar of his generation" after dying at the age of 36.

"I wear the paint and I represent the magic and I represent the flag," says Wiradjuri woman Erika Reid, the Oceanic women's pro wrestling champion hungry to take on the world.

Indian police file charges of sexual harassment and criminal intimidation against the chief of the country's wrestling federation, a powerful member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), following complaints by female wrestlers.

Two Olympic medallists are among the several Indian wrestlers detained as protests intensify calling for the arrest of their federation chief  — who is also an MP — over sexual harassment allegations.

India's top wrestlers, including two Olympic medallists, make allegations of sexual harassment and exploitation, threatening huge implications for a country where women's sport is only now gaining time in the spotlight.

The company that owns and operates the Ultimate Fighting Championship will take a majority stake in the professional wrestling outfift operated by Vince McMahon.

Rhea Ripley, whose real name is Demi Bennett, is taking the wrestling world by storm and is adamant in encouraging people to embrace their true selves.

A promising basketball career interrupted by a breast cancer diagnosis and a teacher-turned-rugby league coach who wanted more for her small community. We shine the spotlight on women making a big impact in sport, on and off the field.

Yareni Guerrero is a Mexican-born former elite wrestler with a passion for getting more girls and women involved in all facets of the sport from the competition mat to the boardroom.

A group of mixed martial arts fighters on the south coast have become the first in their sport to use a virtual reality device to protect themselves from long-term brain injury.