Women’s Wrestling

Hayden set to make rare Canadian defense of NWA women’s title

Posted by Dan Murphy | Jan 28, 2015 | Interviews

When Barbi Hayden captured the NWA women’s championship last January, she vowed to be a...

Steadily climbing her way to the top: Oh, really? O’Reilly!

Posted by Dan Murphy | Nov 19, 2014 | Interviews

Just like fans of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, SHIMMER fans have their own set of prepared...

Showing fire, Nicole Matthews wins SHIMMER title

Posted by Dan Murphy | Oct 19, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

BERWYN, Ill. — With the smell of butane still thick in the air, Nicole Matthews walked out...

Natalya talks ‘snotty’ TJ, NXT Divas and title ban

Posted by Pat Laprade | Oct 17, 2014 | Interviews

According to many reports, a new rule in the WWE states that the Divas who appear on E!’s...

Mad Maxine has quite a story to tell

Posted by Bill Fernow | Oct 6, 2014 | Gary Howard Memorial Library, Interviews

In the 1980s, Mad Maxine ended up in the world of professional wrestling because her alter-ego, a...

Beware! Awesome Kong is still in a fighting mood!

Posted by Greg Oliver | Sep 18, 2014 | Interviews

It’s been a while since we’ve seen Awesome Kong out there at a national level,...

Total Divas a ‘huge promotion’ for Rosa Mendes

Posted by Greg Oliver | Sep 3, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

Total Divas is returning for a third season, starting on September 7th, and Rosa Mendes, the...

Nicole Matthews’ big ECCW win reignites men vs. women debate

Posted by Pat Laprade | Sep 2, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

Men against women. In anything and everything in life, there’s always a comparison or even a...

Ultra-busy Trish Stratus still a fan

Posted by Bob Kapur | Aug 27, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

Given how many things Trish Stratus has on the go at any one time — acting, running her...

Victory on TV is the dream of Rosa Mendes

Posted by Greg Oliver | Aug 22, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

Here’s something you probably didn’t know about Rosa Mendes, and it’s certainly...

Bonnie Watson, women’s wrestling great, passes

Posted by Greg Oliver | Aug 21, 2014 | Interviews, Obituaries

Like almost every woman wrestler from the 1950s, Bonnie Watson’s road took her through...

Courtney Rush new champ as Femmes Fatales delivers again

Posted by Yves Leroux | Aug 17, 2014 | Other House Shows

MONTREAL – So many thought it wouldn’t catch and after a few shows that the idea would...

From Dancing Queen to Princess Palmstrike: The Evolution of Kimber Lee

Posted by Dan Murphy | Aug 14, 2014 | Interviews

As a young girl, Kimber Lee knew exactly what she wanted to be when she grew up. She loved the...

The remarkable road of Kat Von Heez

Posted by Dan Murphy | Aug 5, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

Beth Phoenix popularized the term “glamazon” in wrestling circles, but a new glamazon...

WWE Diva Emma released, then reinstated following arrest

Posted by Nolan Howell | Jul 2, 2014 | News

WWE Diva Emma, born Tenille Dashwood, was released from the company as reported on the...

Guest column: My Mom is still my hero

Posted by Guest Column | Apr 22, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Opinion

By BAMBI HALL – For SLAM! Wrestling I love hearing stories from when I was a kid at...

Beauty Slammers brings women’s tour to the Maritimes

Posted by Greg Oliver | Apr 21, 2014 | Interviews

The Maritime provinces are getting an extra kick of estrogen in the coming two weeks, with a...

New faces shine on SHIMMER weekend

Posted by Dan Murphy | Apr 17, 2014 | Interviews, Other House Shows

Based on the showings at the recent DVD tapings on April 12-13, a youth movement is under way in...

Long road brings Kellie Skater back to SHIMMER

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Apr 10, 2014 | Interviews

If Japanese, American and Canadian women wrestlers have a strong reputation, Australian women have...

WWE Hall of Fame caps Lita’s career

Posted by Marshall Ward | Mar 31, 2014 | Interviews, WrestleMania

Lita was lying in a hammock at her home in Nicaragua when she got a text from Stephanie McMahon....

Jessica James’ travel journal: A joshi from Texas

Posted by Dan Murphy | Mar 27, 2014 | Interviews

In early March, Jessica James embarked on her second tour of Japan. We asked her to provide...

Europeans stars ready to shine at Bellatrix 8

Posted by Dan Murphy | Feb 26, 2014 | Interviews

In recent years, women’s independent wrestling has developed a passionate following in the...

SUN shines on Ontario’s Jasmin Areebi

Posted by Greg Oliver | Feb 18, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

Nothing like waking up to find yourself as the SUNShine Girl in the Toronto Sun newspaper. But...

Gloria Barattini was into opera before wrestling

Posted by Greg Oliver | Feb 10, 2014 | Interviews, Obituaries

Gloria Barattini, who died at the end of January, got a lot of publicity during her wrestling...

Mae Young, 1923-2014: ‘That’s my life, the wrestling world’

Posted by Greg Oliver | Jan 15, 2014 | Interviews, Obituaries

Ed “Strangler” Lewis once told Mae Young, “I don’t like women’s...

Vivian St. John was woman wrestler and psychic

Posted by Greg Oliver | Dec 23, 2013 | Interviews, Obituaries

Vivian St. John, who died on December 20th, was a complicated woman: a wrestler, a single mother,...

Quebec’s Angie Skye aims to stand out

Posted by Greg Oliver | Oct 23, 2013 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

With her funky hairdo, piercings, and tattoos, Quebec’s Angie Skye tries to stand out in a...

A zombie hot lunch with ‘The Scream Queen’ Daffney

Posted by Ranjan Chhibber, Ph.D. | Jul 9, 2013 | Interviews

You don’t usually find a booker carrying a birthday cake for three of her wrestlers. If you...

Taking a SHINE to rising star Santana

Posted by Ranjan Chhibber, Ph.D. | Jul 3, 2013 | Interviews

Watching up and coming female wrestler Santana Garrett at the May 2013 SHINE event, one could see...

The life and loves of Vivian Vachon, Wrestling Queen

Posted by Greg Oliver | Jul 1, 2013 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

In a 1973 newspaper article, Vivian Vachon, the Wrestling Queen who died in 1991, vowed that she...

Erin Angel: The Maritimes exit interview

Posted by Greg Oliver | Jun 19, 2013 | Interviews

Erin Angel has just spent three weeks wrestling straight through for Atlantic Grand Prix...

Leilani Kai a WrestleMania original

Posted by Blaine Van Der Griend | Apr 5, 2013 | Interviews, WrestleMania Features

What is it about WrestleMania that makes it so special? Perhaps the best person to answer that is...

Marie Laverne shares her memories of Gordon Nelson

Posted by Greg Oliver | Jan 7, 2013 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews, Obituaries

When Gordon Nelson spotted a young Marie Laverne at a Charlotte swimming pool, he didn’t...

Leah Von Dutch has an Edge in her corner

Posted by Blaine Van Der Griend | Nov 28, 2012 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

As Leah Von Dutch counters the Stratusfaction and takes Trish Stratus out with the Flying...

Gail Kim: Happy in marriage and in TNA

Posted by Bob Kapur | Nov 5, 2012 | Canadian Hall of Fame

This past year, Gail Kim’s life has changed for the better in a number of ways. She returned...

Athena a woman on the rise

Posted by Greg Oliver | Nov 2, 2012 | Interviews

Things are falling into place for the up-and-coming “Wrestling Goddess” Athena. The...

Hard work pays off for Knockout champ Miss Tessmacher

Posted by Bob Kapur | Aug 10, 2012 | Interviews

Despite being the current TNA Knockout Champion, Miss Tessmacher still feels that she has...

Rita Cortez, dead at 73, was a force in wrestling, country music

Posted by Greg Oliver | Jul 29, 2012 | Interviews, Music for Cauliflower Ears, Obituaries

Rita Cortez, the woman wrestler who died Friday at the age of 73, perhaps contributed more to the...

Women ready to SHINE in new Florida promotion

Posted by Matthew Asher | Jul 17, 2012 | Interviews

WWE may have its Divas and TNA may have its Knockouts, but companies like SHIMMER and the newly...

SHIMMER tag belts switch hands in Montreal

Posted by Pat Laprade | Jul 8, 2012 | Other House Shows

MONTREAL – For the first time in its history, a SHIMMER title switched hands outside of the...

Mercedes Martinez continues to put it all on the line

Posted by Greg Oliver | Jun 28, 2012 | Interviews

It takes an understanding boss at your day job to be able to say, “I can’t come in...

Nicole Matthews keeps soaring higher

Posted by Matthew Byer | Jun 20, 2012 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

A lot can happen in three years. When SLAM! Wrestling last spoke with Nicole Matthews, she was a...

Wendi Richter’s Cauliflower Alley Club speech

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Apr 19, 2012 | CAC, Classics, Interviews

By WENDI RICHTER At Wednesday’s Cauliflower Alley Club banquet, women’s wrestling...

Girl Dynamite Jennifer Blake explosive in Mexico

Posted by Greg Oliver | Apr 12, 2012 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

This weekend marks a rare chance to see a Mexican wrestling star on her home turf. But in a bit of...

Locals shine among international talent at NCW Femmes Fatales

Posted by Pat Laprade | Mar 11, 2012 | Other House Shows

MONTREAL — On Saturday night, NCW Femmes Fatales presented its most important show to date,...

Femmes Fatales bringing all that Jazz to Montreal

Posted by Greg Oliver | Mar 6, 2012 | Interviews

Usually the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal takes place in late June into early July....

Colourful Kira takes inspiration from anime

Posted by Stephen Dean Johnson | Mar 4, 2012 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

Geneviève Bernier is similar to many young women. She dreams of traveling the world, would like to...

Raven Lake and Bambi a formidable mother-daughter team

Posted by Richard Kamchen | Dec 8, 2011 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

It’s a rare thing for daughters to follow their fathers into the wrestling business, and...

Maryse happy to be moving on

Posted by Darren Wood | Nov 29, 2011 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

When Maryse Ouellet went to the Bell Center in Montreal to watch a wrestling event for the first...

Being a TNA Knockout means everything to Gail Kim

Posted by Darren Wood | Nov 24, 2011 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

It’s been a strange couple of months for current TNA Knockouts Champion Gail Kim. Back in...

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