Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
DeAlva Eyvonnie Sibley (May 25, 1922 – July 20, 1998), better known by her ring name June Byers, was an American women's professional wrestler famous in the 1950s and early 1960s. She held the Women's World Championship for ten years and is a member of the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame. She is overall a three-time women's world champion.
In the early 1950s, Burke started the World Women's Wrestling Association in Los Angeles, California. She returned to her promotion after her match with Byers, still recognizing herself as the World Women's Champion even after the NWA had recognized rival June Byers as champion since then, and continued to defend it.
Female professional wrestlers from the United States Wikimedia Commons has media related to Female professional wrestlers from the United States . This category is for articles about female professional wrestlers from the North American country of the United States .
Nellya Baughman [1] (August 21, 1935 – May 9, 2008) was an American professional wrestler who was best known by her ring name Judy Grable.She was an active wrestler during the 1950s and 1960s.
She began wrestling in the early 1950s and her first reported match happened in 1954. [5] With her older sisters, Babs Wingo and Ethel Johnson, she was part of the first Black trio sister team. [6] Marva Scott was posthumously inducted into the Women’s Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2023. [1]
Sister promotion to Shimmer Women Athletes: Women's Extreme Wrestling Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dan Kowal, Greg Bagarozy, Steve Karel 2002–2008 World Women's Wrestling: Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts: Sheldon Goldberg 2006–2010 World Women's Wrestling Association Los Angeles, California: Mildred Burke: 1950–1960 Wrestlicious: Tampa, Florida
Ethel Blanche Hairston (née Wingo; May 14, 1935 – September 14, 2018) was an American professional wrestler whose ring name was Ethel Johnson. [1] [3] She debuted at age 16, [4] becoming the first African-American women's champion.
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.