Dr. Kiss, a three-foot-tall wooden puppet, can handle his business in the wrestling ring. He's the star of a traveling show, reveling in the art and artifice of pro wrestling.

One of the fasted growing college sports is women's wrestling. There are about 150 women's wrestling teams at colleges and universities in North America, but not many in the deep South.

In “Say Hello to the Bad Guys — How Professional Wrestling’s New World Order Changed America’ (Simon & Schuster), ESPN journalist and former Post writer Raimondi investigates just how the ...