There’s a new popular villain in Kentucky. He wears a goatee, tight, brief spandex and a shirt with Hillary Clinton’s face splattered across it. He’s known as “Progressive Liberal.”
How do u become the biggest wrestling heel in Eastern Kentucky? Name yourself “Progressive Liberal” Dan Richards. (via @CardChronicle ) pic.twitter.com/bBaAdnGclQ
— Josh Keown (@joshkeown) June 26, 2017
Dan Richards is the man who portrays “Progressive Liberal” as part of Kentucky-based Appalachian Mountain Wrestling. The fact that his pictures and videos are spreading like wildfire across Twitter means this could be one of the most genius marketing ploys in the history of small-town amateur wrestling.
And trust us, there are no shortage of political jabs.
The obvious feud here is “Progressive Liberal” Dan Richards forcing Big Rig Jake Brake to sign up for a healthcare policy he doesn’t want. pic.twitter.com/sgwxpnNFId
— Eric LaValle (@EricLaValle) June 26, 2017
The promos are fun too.
Progressive Liberal Dan Richards brings the pic.twitter.com/iu76Qzy8WR
— TJ Beisner (@tjbeisner) June 26, 2017
In fact, during a match earlier this year Richards cut a promo where he praised Hillary, but was interrupted by people chanting “feel the Bern!” Allegedly some little kid also yelled, “You better shut up.”
Yes, Progressive Liberal appears to be the perfect antagonist.
Progressive Liberal already losing next generation of WWC voters. Audio’s fuzzy but Im sure he called them dirt-eating meth-addled racists pic.twitter.com/qIJV6Fam7p
— Bruiser BernieBrody (@htmlmencken) June 27, 2017
Progressive Liberal is known as a ‘wrestling heel,’ essentially a villainous or ‘bad guy’ who is booked or scripted to play antagonist to other popular wrestlers.
The Progressive Liberal with his literal heel on the throat of local bluecollar babyface Eddie “The Driller” Browning smdh pic.twitter.com/jKrTaMqYsw
— Bruiser BernieBrody (@htmlmencken) June 27, 2017
If you’re in Kentucky and in search of something to do on Friday, you can go watch Progressive Liberal face off against this guy in a “Crybaby Match,” where the loser “will have to wear a diaper and suck on a bottle.” What gets better than that?
Josh Helmuth is the editor of Crave Sports.
