THE DIVAS OF THE RING

EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT WOMEN'S WRESTLING: THE WHOLE STORY!!

Have you Ever Loved a Wrestling Diva?

Would you arm wrestle with one of the queens of the ring? Would you marry a woman wrestler? Some of them make $2 Million Dollars a Year!

By Maximillien de Lafayette                                                                                                                                                                                                               Contributors: Valerie Constand, Dimitry Poliakoff, Fabiola Rossi, Sabine Muller, Inga Schell, David Goldsmith, Carmen Ortega and Shoshanna Rozen

 

 

SOME NUMBERS TO BLOW UP YOUR MIND!

A top notch professional female wrestler in America makes four times more than the world’s greatest and most famous philharmonic orchestra’s female conductor…almost 35% more than a renown female surgeon…10 times more than Janet Reno…10 times more than Hilary Clinton as a senator, 50 times more than any female school superintendent…100 times more than a female medical assistant, 15 times more than a male federal judge…18 times more than a university astrophysics male professor…60 times more than a male preacher who has a doctorate degree in divinity or theology…28 times more than a violinist in a national philharmonic symphony orchestra …90 times more than a new secretary in a trade firm…and 100 times more than an American soldier fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan!

 

 

Professional female wrestling industry generates over 3 billion Dollars every year, Professional female wrestlers-divas produce $20 millions in tickets sales, $1,876.000 in posters sales, $5,579.065 in merchandise sales, $9,765.942 in videos sales, $1,876.476 in lingeries sales, $3 millions in undisclosed revenues, and some of them over $2,876.540 in posing nude, some sort of pornographic shots and feminine products, apparel and assortments sales. Quite an empire!  Don’t ever think, for a second, that those ladies are not real, cheap or losers! And if it happened that you are a genuine showbiz performer, a cabaret singer, a pop star, a stage leading actor/actress, a lead musician, a public speaker or a motion picture star, do not think that you have more showmanship and stage presence than the divas of the female professional wrestling! They are as good, as manipulative, as charismatic, as controversial, as talented, as appealing, as half crazy, as dynamic and business oriented as you are! In some instances, they are more explosive, autonomous and financially secure than you! Some of them are highly educated, leaders in their field (other than wrestling), generous contributors to charitable causes, extremely savvy and larger than life. And of course, some other female wrestlers are a sad story…soft porno girls and nude models. C’est la vie!

  Photo: This is not a model or an operetta star. You are looking at Terrie Wilson, an American  professional superstar wrestler. Hard to believe! She is quite bright, extremely talented and hardworking woman.

They can and could be extremely brutal. They are muscular. They are sensually and physically expressive. Some of them are mothers, good mothers. Others are hustlers. But they all meet in the ring and try to kick ass and outsmart each other. Some have authored books, taught in universities and became spokeswomen. Others, faded in total obscurity. Some made millions by endorsing products, pausing for magazines, wrestling and doing the whole nine yards. Others are still penniless and struggling. Their life is not only tough in the arena. It is sometimes tougher outside the ring. Some are classy and gorgeous. Others below average and red neck. Some drive Ferraris and Jaguars in Palm Beach and Beverly Hills. Others drive truck and pickups with an expired license in Alabama and Mississippi. Some are messy. Others very organized.

 

 

THE QUEENS OF WRESTLING

 

 

Photo, right: Cyndi Lauper, a former professional wrestler and wrestling manager.

Female and male professional wrestling in America is a multi billion Dollars industry-empire with annual proceeds and profits that exceed all the revenues, earnings, proceeds, income, royalties, wages and commissions of Julia Roberts, Opra Wimphrey, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Johnny Carson, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Robert Di Nero, Al Paccino, Pavarotti, Cher, Madonna, Dixie Chicks, Michael Jackson, Cameroon Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Magic Jackson, Kobe Bryant, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barbra Streisand combined together! Thanks to the genius of one man: Vince MacMahon, the modern godfather of American professional wrestling in general and to the gorgeous and outrageous American female wrestlers, divas of the ring. Barnum and the Ringling Brothers Circus show: The greatest show on earth. Right? No more! Is it the 3 Sopranos concert? Not really. Was it Woodstock? Princess Di and Prince Charles wedding ceremony? No way! The coronation of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte? Think again. The parade of Eisenhower’s GIs on Les Champs Elysees after the liberation of Paris? Man landing on the moon? The Nobel Prize awards ceremony? Nope! It is the World Wrestling Federation’s Wrestlemania matches! And particularly, the American professional female wrestlers kicking, punching and screaming duels in the ring!

 

 

No one in the history of entertainment and showbiz made more money than the stars (males and females) of American wrestling. All the money Clark Gable, James Cagney, Robert Taylor, Johnny Wayne, Elizabeth Taylor, Erol Flynn, Rita Hayworth, Liberace, Elton John, Judy Garland, Maria Callas, Caruso, Al Johnson, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley… all the money those superstars made in their lifetime are a drop in the bucket when you compare it to the big time “real” money professional wrestling generates annually in America. So, don’t assume that professional women’s wrestling is a vanity fair or a comedy. It is among the world’s biggest shows and most watched mass entertainment production-display in 169 countries. Those ladies are the divas of the ring. The divas of the biggest show on earth. They are the sublime mistresses of showmanship; queens of the tragicomic sport transvestia, perfect actresses of the human comedia, outrageous and talkative announcers, ring announcers extraordinaire, mistresses of ceremonies,  leather, techno, hi fi, ultra modern half psychodellico-half mind twisted futuristic moda human runways mannequins, priestesses of pain, fantastic performers at an acrobatic and monumental esthetics…they glitter, they attack with lightening force and speed, they are well built with a lot of steel muscles and tanned sparkling flesh to show. In short,  they are real artists and world class performers, whether you like it or not.

 

DIVAS OF THE RING

THE WORLD'S MOST BRUTAL, BEAUTIFUL, GLAMOROUS AND SEXIEST   WOMEN WRESTLERS 

 

 

Some are stable. Others are "Miss Madness". THEY ARE REAL PERFORMERS, REAL ARTISTS, REAL ACTRESSES, REAL SHOWBIZ WOMEN, as much as any good “legitimate” first class stage and drama actress on Broadway, the Kennedy Center or at the Mets. In some instances, they are better, for they have an easier performance, a simpler act to perform, for they don’t have to memorize lines, read a script, follow the direction of a lunatic stage director, learn blocking, move, talk, and dance on cues,  work hard with orchestras and moody conductors, be at the mercy of a production designer, the set designer, the costumes designers, the make up artists. They dress the way they want and like. They wear any make up they want. They have their own cues. They don’t follow a script except the one that has been choreographed, prefixed and agreed upon by two female opponents. They smile at the audience, shout at each other, show their skin, kick some asses, astonish you with their graceful agility and boom, they ran with your money with a big smile…all the way to the bank. They deliver the best action show you could possibly expect. They entertain you for 2 hysterical hours, They excite the hell out of you and steel your imagination. They arouse your “animal appetite”. They made you jump out of your seat. They possess and master all the elements and prerequisites of a great theatrical drama show or a sensational melodramatic or comic motion picture. What else do you want? They are real divas! Real showbiz performers. And this is how they fit in our world art celebrities journal and columns.

 Photo: Dawn Marie  

They are as pretty as Nicole Kidman, as sweet as Meg Ryan, as classy as Candice Bergen, as seductive as young Lauren Bacall, as melodramatic as Rita Hayworth and Lana Turner, as sexy as Pamela Anderson, as versatile as Jennifer Lopez, as crazy as Janice Joplin, as moody as Joan Crawford, as punctual and serious as Bette Davis, as tragic as Carole Landis and as comic as Carole Burnett! And all of  that in one package, in one body, in one dress or without a dress, preferably. In fact, many of them are accomplished pop stars, songwriters, stage actresses, TV big hit personalities and performers, singers, talk shows hostesses, nurses, showbiz producers, scripts and scenario writers, former beauty queens, playwrights, records and videos producers, professional drama, acting and dance trained, ballerinas, published authors and poetesses, lecturers, Zen teachers, calligraphers, you name it! And we are going to introduce you to some of them.

                                                                                           

THE DIVAS OF THE RINGS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos: STACY                                                                           TORRIE

Sometimes, a great cabaret singer performs in a half empty glitzy cabaret room in New York, while almost all the time, the divas of professional wrestling perform at Madison Square garden, pay per view international channels and audiences around the world exceeding 300 million spectators. Of all ages, ethnics groups faiths, races, sizes, shapes, social conditions and contradictory moral and political beliefs and values. They are the contemporary Roman gladiators, the fighting goddesses of our times...So, you tell us, who are the biggest, the most appealing and the most “soul, mind and body” showbiz attractors and performers, those actresses performing on Broadway before 1,000 people or the divas wrestlers who are performing before hundreds of millions of people worldwide?

 

 

 

 

                                      

 

 TORRIE, HERE...AND THERE.................>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.....................

 

 

 

 

 

  

Pamela Paulshock.                                                 Miss Hyatt

 

 

THE QUEENS OF WRESTLING

 

Background into Cyndi Lauper getting involved in pro wrestling and managing Wendi Richter

Photo: Professional wrestler Pamela Paulschock

 

Cyndi Lauper was a club singer from New York who had recently made it big with a hit record in the charts. It's not clear who came up with the idea (perhaps Lauper's manager Dave Wolf), but one evening out of the blue she turned-up on a WWF television show where an altercation broke out between her and long-time wrestler/personality, Lou Albano. After several weeks of  this routine and a lot of hype on MTV, they decided to settle their differences in the ring. Of course Lauper had no intentions of wrestling Albano, so she needed a stand-in. This angle gave birth to the so-called "Rock & Wrestling" connection. Richter would represent Cyndi Lauper against Albano's stand-in, "The Fabulous Moolah", for the world title in Madison Square Garden. The WWF had promoted women wrestlers on numerous occasions but never as headliners. Nevertheless, for the first time in memory, a girl wrestler was being billed as a main attraction by a major promotion. This stroke put women's pro wrestling back on the map, and culminated in Richter being crowned WWF world champion after defeating Moolah. Richter's popularity and marketability mushroomed and the WWF took advantage by promoting her heavily. However, as in the past, things would change. The introduction of cable television would change the landscape of pro wrestling and create the super promotions that basically control wrestling to this day. As far as women's pro wrestling is concerned, it's been an on-again, off-again affair.

 Richter, a major star, went on to defend her lady's title for another two years but the WWF, as it had in the past, began to phase the girls out of the picture. In a dispute with WWF about the direction of its women's division, Richter decided to leave and jobbed the title to Moolah, masquerading as a wrestler called the Spider. Ironically, this ridiculous story-line also signaled the end of Moolah's storied career as a wrestler. Richter left the WWF and moved on to various promotions, eventually winding up with the AWA, Verne Gagne's ailing promotion out of Minnesota.

 

Cyndi Lauper Interview

An Interview with Cyndi Lauper By Michael Lano and Evan Ginzburg

 

Photos: Left: Medusa, several times, world champion, Below: Professional wrestler Sunny, successful businesswoman presiding over her own multi million Dollar corporation: The World of Sunny!

At the top of the today's charts is Cyndi Lauper, who helped give Hogan and McMahon credibility and attention by participating in the Rock and Wrestling Connection. She originally sang for the  group Blue Angel. Although she was one of the top celebrities at the “We Are The World” taping. after going multiplatinum with her debut album, She's So Unusual , U.S. sales skidded for one of the best singers in the business. She's recently made an amazing comeback. Mike Lano and Evan Ginzburg interviewed her after she cut the opening day ribbon at Virgin Records' S.F. store on 8/17/95.

 

 

You bet! They do! And, if they don’t admit it in public, they talk about it with friends and buddies. Women wrestling matches are big time money making enterprises. An estimated $20 million Dollars  were generated in 2003 from female professional wrestling matches. Men love to watch those gorgeous women fighting each other in the ring. Contrary to the common belief, some of those sexy fighting machines are well educated, college graduated, authors, successful models, pop stars, songwriters, published writers, lecturers, pastors, preachers, musicians, composers, business executives, great moms and sophisticated ladies. Some of them are fluent in 5 languages! They are not silly, low class, suburb country girls, vain or uneducated women as you might think. And let us give you an advice, don’t ever try to mess with them if you want to stay in one piece. They will change the location and geography of your face! You bet!

Can you tell this sweet lady is a wrestler? She looks more like a French or Italian model than a wrestler! Would you say?

 

She is Terrie Wilson, one of the most striking, intelligent classiest ladies of the ring. And she damned serious about her job!

 

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