Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
1988 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling. ... WWF Women's Championship. Incoming champion – Sensational Sherri.
When the IWA World Championship was introduced in AJW in 1988, All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling worked with three regular tertiary singles belts. The WWWA World Single Championship and the All Pacific Championship were the most prestigious (world championship) and the second most prestigious (secondary championship) singles belts, respectively.
The championship was vacated when Sherri Martel went to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). 12 Madusa Miceli: December 27, 1987: AWA Championship Wrestling: Las Vegas, NV: 1 335 Defeated Candi Devine to win the vacant championship. [6] [7] 13 Wendi Richter: November 26, 1988: House show: Bloomington, MN: 1 [Note 2] [8] — Vacated: N/A
It was the only women's championship in the WWE until SmackDown created the WWE Divas Championship as a counterpart title in July 2008. The titles switched brands in April 2009. On September 19, 2010, at Night of Champions, the Women's Championship was unified with the WWE Divas Championship, retiring the Women's Championship.
The 1988 European Wrestling Championships were held in the men's Freestyle style in Manchester 13 – 16 April 1988; the Greco-Romane style in Kolbotn 10 – 13 May 1988; the women's Freestyle style in Dijon 14 – 17 July 1988. [1] [2]
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.
Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (1986—1988) [ edit ] In 1986, inspired by the current boom in interest in women's wrestling in Japan due to the success of the Crush Gals , Sato, along with wrestler Nancy Kumi [ ja ] , boxer Rumi Kazama , and others, formed the first women's promotion to compete against the AJW monopoly, Japan Women's Pro ...
They would even have a singles match a piece, Yamzaki beating Judy Martin and Toteno defeating Leilani Kai. The Jumping Bomb Angels returned to Japan with their home promotion of All Japan Women’s Pro Wrestling. It was there that they lost the WWF Ladies Tag Team Championship, back to the Glamour Girls via countout on June 8, 1988.