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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.
She is overall a three-time women's world champion under different incarnations and recognitions. Burke's heyday lasted from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, when she held the NWA World Women's Champion for almost twenty years. Burke started out in 1935, wrestling men at carnivals. She was managed by her second husband, promoter Billy Wolfe. [3]
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In the late 1950s when the once-dominant promoter of women's wrestling, Billy Wolfe, was out of business, Ellison and Lee began to book their female wrestlers for more and more shows. [49] They began calling their promoting business Girl Wrestling Enterprises (GWE). [ 49 ]
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]
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She wrestled in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) territories through the 1950s and the 1960s. In September 1956, a battle royal was held to determine the new NWA World Women's Champion , but Grable lost to long-time rival The Fabulous Moolah. [ 3 ]
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