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Professional wrestling holds include a number of set moves and pins used by performers to immobilize their opponents or lead to a submission. This article covers the various pins, stretches and transition holds used in the ring. Some wrestlers use these holds as their finishing maneuvers, often nicknaming them to reflect their character or persona.
The 2018 Mae Young Classic was a multi-night special event and tournament promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion, WWE.It was the second Mae Young Classic tournament produced and was constituted by a 32-competitor tournament exclusively for women from WWE's NXT brand division and wrestlers from the independent circuit.
Also, she developed a cauliflower like sore on the back of her head due to taking bumps in the ring. [2] Gillem, however, gained additional notability when she was one of the focal interviewees for Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling, a documentary about the early days of women's wrestling in North America. [2]
The Hall of Fame was founded in 2022 by Angel Orsini, Christopher Annino, Gary Wolfe and Sue Green. [1] It started as an offshoot of a documentary Orsani and director Annino have been making about women's professional wrestling titled Circle of Champions.
Deonna Purrazzo is a record two-time winner of the ECWA Women's Super 8 Tournament. The Super 8 Tournament was first held on October 11, 2014, and was won by Tessa Blanchard. [1] [2] Deonna Purrazzo became the first wrestler in 20 years at ECWA to win the tournament back-to-back between the year 2015 and 2016, including the ECWA Super 8 Tournament.
Sukeban by definition is a new Japanese women’s Joshi wrestling league. An ode to the girl gangs in the 1960s and 1970s — in Japanese, Sukeban is a term meaning “delinquent girl,” and the ...
The WWE Women's Championship [1] is a women's professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, defended on the SmackDown brand. It was introduced on April 3, 2016, at WrestleMania 32 to replace the WWE Divas Championship and has a unique title history separate from the original ...
Women's wrestling has maintained a recognized world champion since 1937, when Mildred Burke won the original World Women's title. [4] She then formed the World Women's Wrestling Association in the early 1950s and recognized herself as the first champion, although the championship would be vacated upon her retirement in 1956.