{"id":102592,"date":"2026-06-08T11:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/102592\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:06:22","slug":"a-raucous-copenhagen-crowd-cheers-denmarks-2026-mullet-championship-butler-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/102592\/","title":{"rendered":"A raucous Copenhagen crowd cheers Denmark\u2019s 2026 Mullet Championship \u2013 Butler Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An attendee at Denmark\u2019s Mullet Championship looks on in Copenhagen, Saturday, June 6. Associated Press<\/p>\n

COPENHAGEN \u2014 Business in the front, party in the back.<\/p>\n

A packed Danish crowd celebrated on Saturday the much-maligned but enduring mullet hairstyle, defined by very short hair at the front and longer hair at the back.<\/p>\n

Denmark\u2019s raucous 2026 Mullet Championship, presented on an outdoor stage in central Copenhagen, attracted 12 well-coiffed competitors and more than a thousand spectators to the evening\u2019s \u201cmane\u201d event.<\/p>\n

Organizer Steffen Stiw Weber, a 37-year-old electrician, said the championships, now in their fourth year, began after he had a hair transplant and chose to grow out a mullet.<\/p>\n

After realizing he couldn\u2019t compete in a mullet competition in the United States because he wasn\u2019t a U.S. citizen, Stiw Weber started his own in Denmark.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, OK, I have to do it on my own here in Denmark,\u201d he said while smiling.<\/p>\n

Competitors in Saturday\u2019s championships were evaluated on their cuts\u2019 style, uniqueness, and overall performance and \u201cmullet moves,\u201d explained judge Bobby Agren.<\/p>\n

Contestants were given 60 seconds each to perform on stage to showcase their cuts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the finesse, the twist, the nostalgia. I like it if it looks ridiculous or maybe ugly in a beautiful way,\u201d said Agren, who owns two hair salons in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think in our culture, when everything must \u2026 be perfect on social media and everything like that, I think that\u2019s why people have to stand out from the crowd,\u201d said Stiw Weber.<\/p>\n

The event featured an array of over-the-top performances, including beer-swilling, body-popping and a live saxophone show. One competitor even wore a mullet haircut styled to resemble the Danish flag.<\/p>\n

The crowd screamed and chanted with their energy seemingly feeding directly into the various performers on stage.<\/p>\n

After every performance, judges held up scorecards to distribute points to the competitors.<\/p>\n

Forty-three-year-old construction worker Thomas Berg eventually took home the top prize after wowing judges by frantically jumping on a trampoline while clad in neon green gym wear. He completed his mullet haircut with an orange headband. \u201cI think it\u2019s just funny. It\u2019s just a big party,\u201d said a smiling Berg after collecting his prize. \u201cIt\u2019s just nice to be a bit outside the box.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though mullets have likely been around longer than there have been barbers, the Oxford English Dictionary cites hip-hop legends the Beastie Boys for helping popularize the term mullet with the song \u201cMullet Head\u201d on their 1994 recording \u201cIll Communication.\u201d<\/p>\n

The short-in-the-front, long-in-the-back coiffure was popularized by ice hockey players and \u201980s musicians, but later fell out of favor.<\/p>\n

Fashion magazine Vogue reportedly once described the mullet as \u201chistory\u2019s most divisive hairstyle.\u201d<\/p>\n

But in recent years, the mullet has seen a global resurgence \u2014 British magazine i-D declared 2020 \u201cthe year of the mullet\u201d as the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered hair salons and lockdown-weary citizens let their locks flow.<\/p>\n

Numerous mullet competitions are now staged around the world. Belgium hosted the European Mullet Cup last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt comes back every 20-30 years. There\u2019s always a circular motion in fashion,\u201d said Agren, the Denmark mullet competition judge.<\/p>\n

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Judges hold scorecards at Denmark\u2019s Mullet Championship in central Copenhagen, Saturday, June 6. Associated Press<\/p>\n

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Competitors at Denmark\u2019s Mullet Championship pose in Copenhagen, Saturday, June 6. Associated Press<\/p>\n

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Competitor Martin Sedolf performs as character pro wrestler \u201cBenny Bacchus,\u201d at Denmark\u2019s Mullet Championship in central Copenhagen, Saturday, June 6. Associated Press<\/p>\n

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Competitor Aksel Toft points to his mullet, styled to resemble the Danish flag, at Denmark\u2019s Mullet Championship in central Copenhagen, Saturday, June 6. Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An attendee at Denmark\u2019s Mullet Championship looks on in Copenhagen, Saturday, June 6. Associated Press COPENHAGEN \u2014 Business…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[21133,21124,21119,21140,21146,21147,21123,21128,108,21126,2014,21127,21132,21122,21145,21139,21121,21143,21131,21120,21134,2578,552,21137,38,39,21125,21138,2590,21129,21142,21141,21130,10863,21136,21135,21144],"class_list":["post-102592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-copenhagen","tag-bruin","tag-butler","tag-butler-eagle","tag-cabot","tag-callery","tag-cherry-valley","tag-community-news","tag-connoquenessing","tag-copenhagen","tag-cranberry","tag-crime","tag-east-butler","tag-eau-claire","tag-education-news","tag-evans-city","tag-fairview","tag-government-news","tag-harmony","tag-harrisville","tag-high-school-sports-news","tag-karns-city","tag-local-news","tag-mars","tag-mount-chesnut","tag-news","tag-obituaries","tag-pennsylvania","tag-petrolia","tag-political-news","tag-portersville","tag-sarver","tag-saxonburg","tag-slippery-rock","tag-valencia","tag-west-liberty","tag-west-sunbury","tag-zelienople"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}