He has also tied his political image to his health and masculinity, which I personally think is a really stupid move on his part. Playing the bare chested stron

He has also tied his political image to his health and masculinity, which I personally think is a really stupid move on his part. Playing the bare chested strongman has a definite lifespan to it. Personally I think that he has also forced himself to be publicly homophobic as if he wasn't, then all of his strutting around half naked asking men to wrestle, might look a little bit suspect to his followers, Russia being fond of the concept of the gay conspiracy meme these days. Hell, even the Russian Olympic wrestling coach alleged that the removal of wrestling from the Olympics was due to a gay conspiracy, apparently being unaware that wrestling is one of the most homoerotic sports on the planet.