{"id":2052,"date":"2026-06-08T21:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:05:23","slug":"a-raucous-copenhagen-crowd-cheers-denmarks-2026-mullet-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2052","title":{"rendered":"A raucous Copenhagen crowd cheers Denmark\u2019s 2026 Mullet Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>COPENHAGEN<\/strong> | Business in the front, party in the back.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<div><\/div>\n<p>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<p>\u201cI was like, OK, I have to do it on my own here in Denmark,\u201d he said while smiling.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Contestants were given 60 seconds each to perform on stage to showcase their cuts.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>\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<p>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<p>The crowd screamed and chanted with their energy seemingly feeding directly into the various performers on stage.<\/p>\n<p>After every performance, judges held up scorecards to distribute points to the competitors.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>Fashion magazine Vogue reportedly once described the mullet as \u201chistory\u2019s most divisive hairstyle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Numerous mullet competitions are now staged around the world. Belgium hosted the European Mullet Cup last month.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2046\">Apple unveils new AI features with privacy focus at developers conference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2048\">Fewer Americans say democracy is central to country\u2019s identity, AP-NORC poll finds<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2050\">Pope Leo XIV acknowledges stiff competition with Bad Bunny in Spain and weighs in on soccer rivalry<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COPENHAGEN | Business in the front, party in the back. 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. 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