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The inaugural Strong Women's Champion, Willow Nightingale In 2022, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) established a women's division. On July 29 of that year, the promotion created the IWGP Women's Championship, the first women's title in the company's history, [2] [3] which was first held by Kairi. [4]
World's Strongest Woman (later known as Strongwoman World Championships, World's Strongest Lady and United Strongmen Women's World Championships) is an annual strongwoman contest, and considered the pinnacle for female competitors and recognized as the world championships, and was held during the same time and same location as WSM from 2001 to 2003.
She is also the first woman ever known to be a member of the 2,000 pound club, as she is the first of two women ever to total over 2,000 pounds in a meet on the same day. [9] She has also competed in strongwoman contests, beginning in 2002. Swanson is also known for doing 35 kg dumbbell curls for 10 repetitions.
She was the first woman to compete in the Royal Rumble match and is the only woman to have held the WWE Intercontinental Championship. [126] Luke Winkie of Sports Illustrated listed her as the 79th greatest wrestler of all time, [ 132 ] while WWE named her the fourth greatest "Female Superstar in Modern WWE History" in 2021. [ 133 ]
In addition to bodybuilding, Brantalova has used her muscular physique and strength to pursue a career in submission style wrestling in which she wrestled against female and even male opponents. She was a small but surprisingly strong wrestler. She has made several bodybuilding videos.
Donna Moore (born 1980) is a British strongwoman and winner of the 2016, 2017, and 2019 World's Strongest Woman competitions, [1] [2] [3] the 2016 and 2017 Arnold World Strongwoman champion, [3] [4] and 2018 Arnold Pro Strongwoman champion. [5] [6]
Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (also known by its initials as GLOW or G.L.O.W.) is a women's professional wrestling promotion that began in 1986 (the pilot was filmed in December 1985) and has continued in various forms after it left television. Colorful characters, strong women, and over-the-top comedy sketches were integral to the series' success.
Several years later, as fitness contests featuring muscular women less muscular than bodybuilders and doing routines that featured more dancing than look-at-my-muscles posing, Baxter seemed a prophet. From 1982 to 1985, Baxter was the benchmark for hugely muscled female bodybuilders.