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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 Mexico, professional wrestling is called lucha libre ("free fight"), and women wrestlers are called luchadoras. The Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), or World Wrestling Council, has a women's division. The top of the division is the CMLL World Women's Championship.
The objective of the film was to give back to the female professional wrestlers of the 1940s–1960s. [3] The stars hoped the film would help "set the record straight" about the early days of women's wrestling, when it was taboo for girls to join the business. [3]
Byers defeated Mildred Burke for the NWA World Women's Championship and continues to be recognized by AWA after it splits from NWA in 1960. [1] 2 Penny Banner: August 26, 1961: House show: Angola, IN: 1 493: AWA ceased to recognize June Byers as women's champion after she no-showed a title defense.
1960 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling. ... Mexican National Women's Championship.
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 .
The NWA United States Women's Championship was a sporadically used women's professional wrestling championship in the National Wrestling Alliance from 1957 until 1988. [ 1 ] Title history
Her efforts to spread women's wrestling internationally reached Japan and brought about the World Wide Women's Wrestling Association (WWWA). Mildred Burke introduced women's wrestling to several countries, including almost every state of the United States, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, and parts of Asia, including Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, and the ...