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Women's World Championship
The Women's World Championship was the first women's professional wrestling world title. History Cora Livingston defeated Hazel Parker in 1906. Though the contest was originally for the Featherweight Championship, from that point she was billed as the first women's champion of the world. She then went to face women's champion Laura Bennett in a champion vs champion match in 1910. While Livingston was proclaimed as world champion, Laura was simply referred as women's champion. The match saw Cora Livingston victorious and it was at that time she was officially recognized as the first women's world champion. Mildred Burke won a woman's world championship title in 1937 and held it for close to two decades. Mildred Burke won the women's wrestling world championship title defeating Clara Mortenson the inaugural champion. Clara had competed for the vacant championship against Barbara Ware, with Clara coming out victorious, following her victory, she was billed as the first women's worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cora Livingston
Cora B. Bowser (1887/1889 – April 22, 1957), better known by the ring name Cora Livingston (also spelled as Livingstone) was an American professional wrestler. She is the first women's world champion in professional wrestling history. Early life Cora Livingston's parents died when she was young. Therefore, Livingston was placed in a convent school where she was raised by the nuns. Professional wrestling career Hailing from Buffalo, New York, Livingston began wrestling with the circus at age 16, Where her first match to be documented took place on March 19, 1906, at the Lafayette Theatre in Buffalo. She defeated Laura Bennett in 1910 to be the "first to be recognized as Women's Champion of the World". As Livingston toured throughout the United States and Canada, she managed to build herself as a credible champion, as she faced the opponents like Bessie Farrar and Celina Pontos. On September 7, 1910, Livingston faced a local competitor May Nelson. They wrestled around 13 min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Mortenson
Clara may refer to: Organizations * CLARA, Latin American academic computer network organization * Clara.Net, a European ISP * Consolidated Land and Rail Australia, a property development consortium People * Clara (given name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people and fictional characters with this name) * Saint Clara or Clare of Assisi ; Surname * Florian Clara (born 1988), Italian luger * Roland Clara (born 1982), Italian cross country skier Places France * Clara, Pyrénées-Orientales, a commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales ''département'' in southwestern France Ireland * Clara, County Kilkenny, a parish * Clara, County Offaly, a town in Ireland ** Clara Bog, a wetland near the town of Clara, County Offaly * Clara, County Wicklow, sometimes referred to as the "smallest village in Ireland" United Kingdom *Clara Vale, a village in Tyne and Wear, England United States *Clara, Florida, area on the border of Taylor County and Dixie County * Clara City, Minnesota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Wrestling Alliance Championships
National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is an American professional wrestling promotion operating via its parent company Lightning One, Inc. The following is a list of its active and inactive/unofficial/defunct championships. The professional wrestling championships are not won through legitimate athletic competition; they are instead won via scripted endings to a match or on occasion awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. Active championships *NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship *NWA World Women's Championship *NWA World Television Championship *NWA World Tag Team Championship *NWA World Women's Tag Team Championship *NWA National Championship *NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship *NWA United States Tag Team Championship Inactive/unofficial/defunct championships World championships *NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship *NWA World Middleweight Championship *NWA World Welterweight Championship *NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship *NWA World Historic Midd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Women's Championship (other)
World Women's Championship may refer to: Wrestling * Women's World Championship * WWWA World Single Championship * NWA World Women's Championship * CMLL World Women's Championship * Impact Knockouts World Championship * ICE Cross Infinity Championship, a world professional wrestling championship * World of Stardom Championship * World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana World Championship * ICW Women's Championship, a world professional wrestling championship * WWE Raw Women's Championship, a world professional wrestling championship * SWA World Championship * WWE SmackDown Women's Championship, a world professional wrestling championship * Women of Honor World Championship * AEW Women's World Championship * ROH Women's World Championship * MLW World Women's Featherweight Championship, a world professional wrestling championship * IWGP Women's Championship, a world professional wrestling championship Other * Women's World Chess Championship * IHF World Women's Handball Championship * World Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NWA World Women's Champion
The NWA World Women's Championship is a women's professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). The title was first won by Mildred Burke in 1937 defeating Clara Mortensen. The championship is currently held by Kamille, who is in her first reign. History Mildred Burke was recognized as the inaugural champion. After her Two out of three falls match against June Byers in 1954 ended in a no contest, Byers was recognized as the NWA World Women's Champion, and Burke created the WWWA World Championship and was recognized as its first champion. Upon June Byers's retirement, it was held primarily (and operated) by Lillian Ellison (under the ring name of The Fabulous Moolah), who first won the championship in a battle royal in September 1956. In 1983, the physical belt was sold by Ellison to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), where it became the WWF Women's Championship. The Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's World Tag Team Championship (other)
Women's World Tag Team Championship refer to a Professional wrestling championship for tag teams consisting of two female wrestlers. Several wrestling companies have promoted a world women's tag team championship including: See also * :Women's professional wrestling tag team championships {{disambiguation-cleanup, date=May 2023 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship (original Version)
The World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship was the first recognized professional wrestling world heavyweight championship created in 1905 to identify the best catch as catch can wrestler in the world. The subsequent legacy of the championship is not linear, with the champion being disputed among various promotions until the formation of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in 1948. The last several reigns are recognized by the NWA under the NWA World Heavyweight Championship's lineage. The first recognized World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion was George Hackenschmidt, who officially won the championship on May 4, 1905, by defeating Tom Jenkins in New York City. The championship remained active for the next 51 years, with the last recognized reign being disputed between Lou Thesz and Édouard Carpentier after a match between the two ended in a legitimate disqualification. History George Hackenschmidt won a world championship tournament to become the first champion. Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racket Girls
''Racket Girls'' (also called ''Blonde Pickup'' and ''Pin Down Girls'') is an American film noir crime film, directed by Robert C. Dertano and released in 1951 by Screen Classics. Plot Umberto Scalli ( Timothy Farrell) is a small-time gangster who acts as a manager for women's wrestling in order to cover his involvement in many crime rings, including racketeering, bookmaking, and prostitution. He must dodge both police investigations and the local mob, to which he owes $35,000. Cast Real life wrestlers Peaches Page and Rita Martinez, as well as former world champion Clara Mortensen, play fictional versions of themselves. *Peaches Page as Peaches Page * Timothy Farrell as Umberto Scalli *Clara Mortenson as Clara Mortensen, world champion *Rita Martínez as Rita Martinez, champion of Mexico *Muriel Gardner as Ruby McKenzie *Don Ferrara as Joe the Jockey *Matt Douglas as Ronnie, a mobster *Paul Merton as Monk, a book-keeper *Bruce Spencer as Eddie, a gangster *Tony Zarro as Lefty, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Chattanooga ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. Located along the Tennessee River bordering Georgia, it also extends into Marion County on its western end. With a population of 181,099 in 2020, it is Tennessee's fourth-largest city and one of the two principal cities of East Tennessee, along with Knoxville. It anchors the Chattanooga metropolitan area, Tennessee's fourth-largest metropolitan statistical area, as well as a larger three-state area that includes Southeast Tennessee, Northwest Georgia, and Northeast Alabama. Chattanooga was a crucial city during the American Civil War, due to the multiple railroads that converge there. After the war, the railroads allowed for the city to grow into one of the Southeastern United States' largest heavy industrial hubs. Today, major industry that drives the economy includes automotive, advanced manufacturing, food and beverage production, healthcare, insurance, tourism, and back office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City (abbreviated KC or KCMO) is the largest city in Missouri by population and area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 508,090 in 2020, making it the 36th most-populous city in the United States. It is the central city of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Missouri–Kansas state line and has a population of 2,392,035. Most of the city lies within Jackson County, with portions spilling into Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a port on the Missouri River at its confluence with the Kansas River coming in from the west. On June 1, 1850, the town of Kansas was incorporated; shortly after came the establishment of the Kansas Territory. Confusion between the two ensued, and the name Kansas City was assigned to distinguish them soon after. Sitting on Missouri's western boundary with Kansas, with Downtown near the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, the city encompasses about , making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Byers
DeAlva Eyvonnie Sibley (May 25, 1922 – July 20, 1998), better known by her ring name June Byers, was an American women's professional wrestler famous in the 1950s and early 1960s. She held the Women's World Championship for ten years and is a member of the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame. She is overall a three-time women's world champion. Early life Born in Houston, Texas, the tomboyish Sibley grew up around wrestling. Her uncle, Ottoway Roberts, worked for local wrestling promoter Morris Siegel, and as she got older, she often hung around the wrestlers and asked them to teach her their moves.. WWI Productions. Retrieved on 2001-11-23. On one occasion while DeAlva was playing around in the ring, the women's wrestling promoter Billy Wolfe happened to see her and recognized her potential. Already divorced once and facing poverty, she accepted Wolfe's offer to be trained as a professional wrestler. Professional wrestling career Taking her family nickname of "June" and her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Wrestling Hall Of Fame And Museum
The Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame (PWHF) and Museum is an American professional wrestling hall of fame and museum located in Wichita Falls, Texas currently closed to water leaks. The museum was founded by Tony Vellano in 1999, and was previously in Amsterdam, New York and Schenectady, New York. Its purpose is to "preserve and promote the dignified history of professional wrestling and to enshrine and pay tribute to professional wrestlers who have advanced this national pastime in terms of athletics and entertainment." It is not affiliated with any promotion. Categories Inductees , NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (2 times), NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time), NWA World Television Championship( 3 times), and more NWA regional Titles. , - , 2010 , , Tag Team , Posthumous inductee: Inducted as a part of a tag team with Mike Sharpe, won NWA World Tag Team Championship ''(San Francisco version)'' (19 times), WCWA Texas Tag Team Championship (1 time), an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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