Sporting and leisure activities have long been recognised in feminist research as heavily gendered spaces which adhere to binarised constructs of gendered identity; much research reflects these binaries, focusing on practises of “doing” femininities and masculinities, while prioritising cisgender experience. Through evocative and analytic narrative autoethnography drawn from semi-structured interviews and ethnographic/autoethnographic fieldwork in a pro-wrestling training club, this article takes a gender inclusive approach to research, exploring experiences of women and trans pro-wrestlers, and how they navigate pro-wrestling spaces. The study confirms the prevalence of gendered stigmatised stereotypes within pro-wrestling spaces upheld by a normalised hypermasculine interaction order, manifesting in the embodied inhibition of marginalised gendered bodies. Trans participants, in particular, face additional challenges, including misgendering and pronounced stigma. However, findings illuminate gendered pro-wrestling experience as highly relational and context dependent, suggesting that while larger normative social structures of inequality persist, stigma may be negotiated, resisted and even subverted within the minutiae of everyday leisure activities. Furthermore, by tracing the corporeal, sensory lived experiences of marginalised genders through a theory that sits most comfortably under the umbrella of “feminist existential dramaturgy”, the research uncovers practices of embodied empowerment and identity shaping that extend from pro-wrestling spaces into daily life.