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  • When my trainer, Bombardier, a 6-foot-7, 300-pound living legend of lutte wrestling—women literally broke into tears when they saw him in the streets—wrapped me in his sport's traditional loincloth, I felt like a baby getting bundled into a diaper.

    My World Wrestling Revelation Dhani Jones 2011

  • Cette lutte doit être d'abord psychlogique et culturelle.

    Global Voices in English » Gabon: Opposition Continues to Fight Election Result 2009

  • Dhani Jones Spectators at a lutte wrestling match in Senegal.

    Senegal, Through Dhani's Lens 2011

  • Dhani Jones A lutte wrester who was in training with Dhani in Senegal.

    Senegal, Through Dhani's Lens 2011

  • In his second season of "Dhani Tackles the Globe," a TV show in which the NFL linebacker travels each week a new country, Dhani Jones trekked to Senegal to learn to lutte wrestle.

    Senegal, Through Dhani's Lens 2011

  • When my trainer, Bombardier, a 6-foot-7, 300-pound living legend of lutte wrestling—women literally broke into tears when they saw him in the streets—wrapped me in his sport's traditional loincloth, I felt like a baby getting bundled into a diaper.

    My World Wrestling Revelation Dhani Jones 2011

  • In his second season of "Dhani Tackles the Globe," a TV show in which the NFL linebacker travels each week a new country, Dhani Jones trekked to Senegal to learn to lutte wrestle.

    Senegal, Through Dhani's Lens 2011

  • Dhani Jones A lutte wrester who was in training with Dhani in Senegal.

    Senegal, Through Dhani's Lens 2011

  • Dhani Jones Spectators at a lutte wrestling match in Senegal.

    Senegal, Through Dhani's Lens 2011

  • In 1886, in State v. Crittenden, a Louisiana Supreme Court Justice ruled that "a trial is not a mere lutte" - lutte is a French term for a wrestling match, as this analogy dates back to when baseball was a just a cult phenomenon - "a trial is not a mere lutte between counsel, in which the judge sits merely as an umpire to decide disputes which may arise between them."

    Al Franken Slams Supreme Court For Dismantling Legal Protections (VIDEO) 2010

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