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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.
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 was an active wrestler during the 1950s and 1960s.
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 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]
Kaoru "Dump" Matsumoto, one of Japan's leading pro wrestlers in the 1980s. All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (est. 1968) was the dominant joshi puro organization from the 1970s to the 1990s. AJW's first major star was Mach Fumiake in 1974, followed in 1975 by Jackie Sato and Maki Ueda (the "Beauty Pair").
In 1999, she became the oldest champion in the history of professional wrestling, up to that point in time, when she won the Women's Championship for a final time at age 76. [ a ] During her lifetime, Moolah was lauded as a leading figure in women's professional wrestling and was considered one of the industry's greatest wrestlers.
Ladies Major League Wrestling: Florida Howard Brody 1989–1992 Ladies International Wrestling Association: North Carolina: The Fabulous Moolah: 1990-2000 Ladies Professional Wrestling Association: Laughlin, Nevada: Tor Berg 1989–1998 Naked Women's Wrestling League: Howard Mann 2004–2009 Powerful Women of Wrestling: Indianapolis, Indiana ...
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 .