Since Barthes’s Mythologies, cultural studies have acknowledged that there may be more to professional wrestling than a clash of two oily muscled masses in front of a partisan crowd. Yet, while it has caught the attention of a wide range of writers and essayists, from Roland Barthes, to Henry Jenkins to Angela Carter, and while it has been extensively studied in North-American academic circles, professional wrestling has been comparatively neglected in France. The subject is still ...