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Brutal portraits showing the realistic side of pro-wrestling

Photographer Michael Watson explains how his candid backstage images capture the raw energy and larger than life personalities of some of wrestling's biggest stars.

  • Photography
  • Sean Neumann

Inside the world of football’s unsung heroes: the referees

To mark the release of a new documentary following a diverse group of grassroots match officials in the UK, we spoke to two of its featured voices: aspirational family man Nigel Owen, and Lucy Clark, the world’s first openly trans referee and founder of all-trans football club TRUK United.

  • Film
  • Jake Hall

90s skate prodigy Brandon Turner on addiction and recovery

Living the dream soon turned into a nightmare for skater Brandon Turner. Yet Turner eventually found a route to recovery and redemption through skateboarding.

  • Skate
  • Miss Rosen

Watch Huck’s documentary Before the Storm at Outernet

Thousands of Londoners each day will see how the BikeStormz movement has transformed life for young riders in the capital.

  • Huck Docs
  • Alex King

The cost of living crisis is killing football

Premier League clubs spent a record £815m in the January transfer window, but community clubs are facing a financial squeeze that threatens the beautiful game from the ground up.

  • Football
  • Fred Garratt-Stanley

The fight to get oil off Norway’s slopes

'We're running out of time' — Norway prides itself as a top winter sports destination while also being the largest fossil fuel producer in Western Europe. Now, skiers and snowboarders in the climate activist group Stopp Oljeletinga are urging their industry to cut ties with oil for good.

  • Activism
  • Sam Haddad

Josh Landau is giving psych rock a skate rat makeover

The guitar virtuoso, skate rebel and prolific frontman talks us through his formative stomping grounds in LA, skating the empty swimming pools of Beverly Hills, shredding atop billboards on Sunset Strip, and his psych-punk solo project Stolen Nova.

  • Huck 78
  • Tracy Kawalik

The film exposing surfing’s toxic supply chain

Made by two surfers from the north-east of England, 'The Big Sea' exposes the unlikely link between wetsuits and a small town in Louisiana where the risk of cancer is 50 times the national average for the United States.

  • Surf
  • Sam Haddad

Inside the UK’s only licensed bare knuckle fight club

Bradford-based photographer John Bolloten captures the brutal world of bare knuckle pit fighting in the north of England.

  • Photography
  • Isaac Muk

Poignant photos of Cornwall’s last raceway

Photographer Becky Tyrell went down to the fading banger and stock raceway to meet a community desperate to keep it alive.

  • Photography
  • Isaac Muk

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