The Life and Times of the not so fabulous Moolah
Greg Grant of 333
press and even AP wires come dangerously close to making Moolah seem like
some kind of saint, and from a pro-wrestling point of view as some kind of
legendary tough shooter. That's utter bullshit. I want to clear up a
couple of points, while taking nothing away from Moolah's ability to have a
strangehold on women's wrestling from mid '60s to mid '80s in North America.
Lets get this out of way first, so I don't have to dance around the
subject - Moolah was a pimp. From her sprawling 42 acre estate in Colombia,
South Carolia, Moolah would send out her half-trained underage
female-wrestlers to "photo shoots" that would by the standards of today be
considered pedophilia and pornography. She sent trainees to wrestling
promoters in set numbers. Renting them out to promoters in bulk, with the
understanding that the girls would have sex with the promoter and all the
wrestlers on the roster who wanted them. Promoters liked free sex, but what
they also liked is for boys not to go outside looking for it and possibly
running into trouble. Sex on a road with a steady and pliant group of
semi-attractive women in return for money, that is what Moolah offered. The
women that were sent out on this tours were not told of this "arrangement"
ahead of time. They found out about it on the road. Those that refused to
have sex with promoters and wrestlers, were raped. (see: Luna Vachon's,
Sherri Martel's, and Susie McCoy's shoot interviews).
The reason women's pro-wrestling in North America was and still in large
part today considered a joke and just an opportunity to oggle at tits and
asses is largely in part thanks to the way Moolah trained her girls and how
Moolah wrestled. Moolah was not a good worker. Her wrestling style
considered of hair pulling snapmare, headlocks, clotheslines and nothing
else. Those that argue that women's wrestling was always like that and
Moolah did nothing to change it are ignorant. In the '30s and '40s, female
wrestling employed shooters and they wrestled in the traditional sense of
the term. Tits and asses were used to advertise and get them in the
building, but the girls worked longer and more technically sound matches
than today. The champion was always a shooter, and the matches for the
championship and leading up to the main event had to be high caliber. The
reason Japanese women's wrestling was light years ahead of North American's
is because of one person and one person only - Moolah. Mildred Burke, the
original women's champion, popularized female wrestling in the world in the
'30s. Japan, Canada, Mexico and America can trace women's wrestling
directly to her. She used a hard hitting style and outside of being an
attractive woman, her matches were no different from the men's matches of
her day. Moolah was inspired by Burke, but could not work as well as her.
Moolah was not a good worker and so the style she passed onto her trainees
once she took over women's pro-wrestling in North America was Moolah-based.
Moolah was never a shooter.
Butters
"Greg Grant of 333" <Vict...@myplace.com> wrote in message
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I can't speak much of Moolah since I never cared for her and I never spent
much time learning about her, but if the above is true...LMAO!
Moolah was the Godfather of the 50's.
cheerleader!
they choose instead to indulge in replies to trolls and off-topic/low-
quality posters.
David E. Powell
IAWTP.
Do any RSPWers have any confimation or other stories they've heard
which are similar? It would cast a lot of history in a different light
if you do.
James Fabiano
Skeeter
jmfabi...@gmail.com says...
> It's THE GIANT UTERUS!!!!!
James Fabiano
This Moolah chick was as real as Chris Benoit or Roseanne. We all know it's Giant Uterus (honored during that battle royal in 2018), Stevie Richards, and The Conners, which went from season negative 8-negative 1 in the 90s before coming back!!!
Skeeter
jmfabi...@gmail.com says...
Carry on then.