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Tajiri applying a camel clutch to Rene Bonaparte. The wrestler begins the hold by standing over a face-down opponent. The wrestler reaches down to pull the opposing wrestler up slightly, sits on the opponent's back, and places both of the opponent's arms across their thighs, usually locking at least one by placing the arm in the crook of their knee. [1]
Charlene Rink (born February 11, 1972) is a former professional fitness competitor, wrestler and competitive female bodybuilder. In 1999, she won first place in the Fitness tall class at the National Physique Committee Fitness USA Championships.
A wrist-clutch variation of this driver exists which sees the wrestler lift the opponent on to their shoulders, and while the opponent is on their shoulders, he/she uses the hand hooking the opponent's leg to reach upwards and clutch the wrist of the arm opposite the hooked leg. While maintaining the wrist-clutch, they then perform the driver.
[5] 11 Sherri Martel: June 28, 1986: Battle by the Bay: Oakland, CA: 3 391 — Vacated: July 24, 1987 — — — — 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 ...
On April 27, 2023, NJPW announced the creation of the Strong Women's Championship, the top women's championship of the promotion's American subsidiary Strong Live. The promotion additionally announced a four-woman single-elimination tournament to determine the inaugural champion to be held at Resurgence on May 21, in Long Beach, California. [1]
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 the Orient: Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, and the Philippines.
She was a small but surprisingly strong wrestler. She has made several bodybuilding videos. [5] [6] She is known for taking on fellow IFBB competitor Charlene Rink in a topless wrestling match that Pavla is spent and defeated by Rink. Pavla Brantalova has retired from both bodybuilding and wrestling, and now works as a nurse in California. [7]
She competed in the Women's Pro Wrestling organization in the early 1990s. [6] In 1997, she briefly returned to WCW and became a contender for the WCW Women's Championship . While in WCW, she wrestled against her former AWA rival, Madusa, who was the number one contender at the time..