More than anything else Paul Hough’s “The Backyard” attests to the power of television. The revival of wrestling on TV in a more extreme form in recent years has been accompanied since the mid-1990s ...

Aug. 29 -- A backyard wrestler hits an opponent over the head with a fluorescent light bulb, a heavy-set wrestler leaps off a roof on top of his friend, and bodies go flying over the top rope. A ...

Those who've wondered whether TV's WWF show wrestling might have a detrimental effect on impressionable youth will gloat over "The Backyard," a variably endearing and appalling look at the recent ...

Tending to two toddlers parked in a stroller on the sidelines, she cheers for Shadow, a stone-faced fighter wearing a black bandana around his head and a shirt that reads, “F--- You You F---kin F---.” ...

A whole family in the San Diego suburbs works out its conflicts through backyard wrestling in Mickey Birnbaum's new play at the Echo Theater Company. By Jordan Riefe Backyard production still - H 2014 ...

For generations, suburban kids have turned their backyards into makeshift sports arenas, where fantasies of stardom flourish. That was me, the skinny blond kid, magically transformed into Elgin Baylor ...

Two or three years ago, Paradox Development's Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood might have been a pretty decent entry-level wrestling game. But the reality in the here and now is that ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Eidos recently held a press event to show off Backyard Wrestling, and we learned a little new information about the game from Kevin Gill, one of the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Currently scheduled for release on November 16, Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood is the brutal sequel to Backyard Wrestling: Don't ...