All holds barred. There’s little hope for top ropes anytime soon, so these wrestling fans are trading leg drops for laptops while in quarantine.
Unemployed bandmates Jimi Riddle and Casey Hopkins have been filling their time in coronavirus lockdown by running their Instagram-based Isolation Wrestling Federation, which bills itself as “the first ‘NO CONTACT’ wrestling federation.” The account features videos of costumed, wigged and mulleted characters colorfully self-promoting themselves in front of low-fi digital backgrounds or their living room walls, an ode to the glory days of the gaudy sport.
The lifelong wrestling fans, both 30, were inspired by the iconic promo videos of the ‘80s and ‘90s. “There’s a history of doing green screen