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Victoria "Wendi" Richter (born September 8, 1960) [4] is an American former professional wrestler. She began her professional wrestling career in companies such as the National Wrestling Alliance , where she teamed with Joyce Grable , with whom she held the NWA Women's World Tag Team Championship twice.
Multiple celebrities are featured in the video including WWF professional wrestlers "Captain" Lou Albano, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Wendi Richter, The Fabulous Moolah, The Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff, Freddie Blassie and André the Giant (the last being only in Part 2), Steven Spielberg, Lauper's manager at the time David Wolff, the majority of The ...
The eighth bout was a singles match in which WWF Women's Champion The Fabulous Moolah defended her title against Wendi Richter. Going into the match, Moolah was billed as having been champion for 26 years. [9] Moolah was aged 60, while Richter (who Moolah had trained) was 22. [6]
Mark Marek designed the characters in the animated sections of this music video, which were produced and directed by Jerry Lieberman, of NYC's Jerry Lieberman Productions, [17] and the cover of the US 12" version. [18] Wendi Richter and Lou Albano appear in the video, with Richter lip-synching the first line of the song.
The "Montreal Screwjob" remains one of the most high-profile double-crosses in the history of professional wrestling and the first heavily publicized professional wrestling double-cross since Wendi Richter lost the WWF Women's Championship to a masked Fabulous Moolah following a money dispute on November 25, 1985.
Wendi Richter: November 26, 1988: House show: Bloomington, MN: 1 [Note 2] [8] — Vacated: N/A — — — — The championship was vacated when Wendi Richter left the promotion; she was still advertised as champion for the show where Devine wins the vacant title. 14 Candi Devine: December 6, 1989: House show: Toronto, ON: 4 [Note 3]
During this time, in addition to wrestling individually and as a tag team (including tours of Japan with the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling promotion), Kai and Martin worked behind the scenes as trainers at Moolah's school, where they (along with Joyce Grable) oversaw training of women such as Wendi Richter [3] and Sherri Martel. [4]
The Ladies Professional Wrestling Association (LPWA) was a women's professional wrestling promotion which operated in the early 1990s (ca. 1989–1992). It was considered a successor to such women's promotions as Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW), but it differed in that, while GLOW slanted more toward WWF-style sports entertainment, the LPWA treated its product seriously and put its primary ...