Manami Toyota’s Retirement Show Yokohama Osanbashi Hall 3rd November 2017 The match: Here’s a head-scratcher for you: imagine you’re one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time and you’re…
Tag: Women’s wrestling
Congratulations on surviving this week. You’ve officially made it to She-1 weekend, and it’s going to be a belter. We’ve been introducing you to the twelve women who will descend…
The weekend is getting closer, which means the first matches of Pro Wrestling: EVE’s She-1: Ace of EVE league are just around the corner. We’re introducing you to the 12…
In the run-up to Pro Wrestling: EVE’s huge She-1: Ace of EVE weekender on Saturday and Sunday, we’re introducing you to the 12 women you need to know about before…
This weekend, Pro Wrestling: EVE hosts its biggest event of the year. Four shows. Two days. She-1: Ace of EVE. Ahead of this epic weekender, we’re introducing you to the…
Ahead of AJW’s landmark reunion show this weekend, here’s why it was the greatest wrestling promotion of all time. We’ve had some dark times as women’s wrestling fans. Even as…
Not so long ago, a rumour doing the rounds suggested that WWE was planning to bring in Ronda Rousey to work towards a singles match at WrestleMania. I wrote that…
Everyone remembers Daniel Bryan’s win at Wrestlemania 30, or the day Mankind did himself a mischief with a cell. If NXT sticks around, and it’s got a few years yet,…
Thirty-two women competed in the Mae Young Classic. That’s 32 individuals from over a dozen countries, representing some of the wrestling industry’s top talent from 20-year veterans to two-year prodigies.…
Sisterhood of the Squared Circle: The History and Rise of Women’s Wrestling Pat Laprade and Dan Murphy (ECW Press, 2017) History is political. It doesn’t feel that way when you’re…
First it was the cruiserweights. Then it was the Brits (the male ones). Now WWE has kindly decided that maybe the women of the wrestling world should get some more…
In WWE historiography (read: revisionism), women’s wrestling has a pretty scant history. It’s clear that the company is trying to establish a lineage for its “women’s evolution” through its choice…