The Kinnikuniverse's alt-history of women's wrestling and re
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Post by kinnikuniverse on Nov 2, 2023 12:32:01 GMT 1
Hello and welcome to this alternate history thread taking place in my universe, where the main POD is as follows: Vince McMahon and the Fabulous Moolah never existed, and Mildred Burke founds the World Women's Wrestling Association, which is the premier women's wrestling promotion in North America. This is essentially if Wpmen's Wrestling maaged to gain a foothold in north america the same way it did in Japan.
A HISTORY OF THE WORLD WOMEN'S WRESTLING ASSOCIATION
The WWWA was founded by Mildred Burke on the back of Burke's divorce from promoter Billy Wolfe. While she had the loyalty of all the women wrestlers, who defected to Burke's peomotion, the early years of the promotion, which was based in Los Angeles, California, were marked by constant struggles advocating for Women's Wrestling being recognised and respected, and the establishment of the WWWA World Singles title as the real world women's championship.
While Burke and the women were busy beign united in their battle for equality, the promotion's initial shows featured established names like Ella Waldek, Mae Young, Gladys Gillem, Millie Stafford, Shirley Strimple, Cora Combs, Lorraine Johnson and Burke herself.
In 1955, in a shocking twist, Burke managed to reconcile with and poach NWA world women's champion June Byers from Billy Wolfe, a huge coup that legitimised the WWWA and hurt Billy Wolfe's standings as the premier women's promoter. The following year would be one of the most important years in Women's Wrestling in america, for Mildred Burke wrestled her last match, putting over Byers and making her the new WWWA World Women's champion and ace of the promotion, while Billy Wolfe would die in a car crash, thus making Burke the defacto main promoter for Women wrestlers.
With Byers's technical skills and charisma and Burke's promotional knowhows, the WWWA started consoliding their position in Los Angeles in the late 50s, with young talents like Ida Mae Martinez, Judy Grable and Penny Banner making their mark alongside the established girls. Burke also brought the girls on tour in countries like Japan, Mexico and Canada to promote women's wrestling there.
The 60s would mark a turning point for the promotion and women's wrestling. First off, the NWA, after years of efforts and advocacy, finally accepted the WWWA into its ranks, which led to Burke inheriting the NWA World Women's championship as the new top belt, with the WWWA World Women's title now renamed the singles title and now serving as the secondary belt. The arrival of syndicated television also brought new eyes on the product across the states, with the rivalry between June Byers and Penny Banner attracting attention and the women athletes, under the close watch of Burke to ensure they were well-treated, were booked in territories that allowed women's wrestling, such as Wrestling at the Chase in St. Louis, Texas and Portland
But, above all else, it was The sweeping social movements and changes of the 1960s that helped the WWWA gain influence and importance. More and more young women registered at Mildred Burke's wrestling school in Encino, whcih led to a new generation of women athletes filling up the roster: chief among them Kay Noble and Betty Niccoli, who would end up becoming the breakout stars of the new generation, with Noble's title win over Penny Banner at the newly opened Anaheim Convention center in 1967 and Noble's rivalry with Niccoli drawing big money for the promition in the late 60s and 70s.
Durign that time, Women's wrestling started making waves in canada and especially Japan, where All Japan Women's wrestling was founded by the Matsunaga brothers. With the WWWA now having two main titles in the NWA World Women's and Tag Team titles and the WWWA's own titles, a historic deal was struck, where Burke sold the WWWA World Singles and Tag Team belts to AJW in exchange for a long-lasting working agreement between the two promotions. The deal would be offcialised when Niccoli lost the WWWA Belt to Jumbo Miyamoto in Japan, and the creation of a new secondary belt, the NWA US Women's title, in 1968.
Around this time period, the influx of talent from Burke's wrestling school also allowed for the undercard and tag team division to thrive, with Sweet Georgia Brown notably becomign the first black woman to win a singles title when she won the US women's belt and the likes of Ann Casey, Jean Antone and Beverly Shade feuding for said belt, Karen Kellogg, Evelyn Stevens a d Ethel Johnson the main stars of the lightweight division (the latter being the first black woman to win a major title when she won the NWA World Women's Tag belts with June Byers ina groundbreaking Interracial tag team), and tag teams like the Boucher Sisters, Jane Sherill and Patty O'Hara, the Honey Blondes, the african-american team of Babs Wingo and Ramona Isbel and youngsters Donna Christenello and Toni Rose fighting for the championships.
The 70s continued the momentum started by the 60s, with Women's Wrestling being allowed in more and more states before the groundbreaking lift of the ban in New York in 1972. Kay Noble vs Betty Niccoli became the talk of the town in the 70s, with a new generation arriving with the likes of Sue Green, Vivian Vachon, Joyce Grable and Sandy Parker. Those four young women would headline the 70s alongside Niccoli and Noble, with Parker becoming the first African woman to win the NWA World Women's title after she took the title from Sue Green in 1977 (those two also retroactively became the first LGBTQ women to become world champions after they came out later in their lives).
Parker also became tag team champions in both america and japan with various partners like Jean Antone and Niccoli in japan and Sue Green in America, with Green, Niccoli, Vachon and Parker being the big three that traded the world title between one another while Joyce Grable never mamaged to win.the world title, but made a name for herself with both her US title reigns and rivalry with Vachon and Jean Antone and her tag team with Vicki Williams, who were the main rivals to the dominant tag team of Donna Christenello and Toni Rose, whose dominance of the tag scene in the 70s was unprecedented.
All those developments culiminated in the 80s and early 90s, which are considered the golden age of Women's Wrestling worldwide. With the UWA in Mexico having a prominent women's division, All Japan Women at the peak of its popularity and quality and the WWWA, now under Penny Banner's rule, reaching a national TV Deal, Women's Wrestling reached heights it hasn't reached before. In the WWWA, it was dominate by the Trinity of Velvet McIntyre, Leilani Kai and Wendi Richter. The latter became the biggest star in women's wrestling, transcending the sport with her friendship with Cyndi Lauper, her hip image and her appearances on talk shows promoting the sport and puttign over her rivals. She, Velvet and Leilani feuded with each other in both tag team and singles, while they were supported by a deep supporting cast of various talents such as Sensational Sherri, Princess Victoria, Susan Sexton, Rhonda Sing, Madusa Micelli and many others.
While the 90s started off really strong, with Madusa Micelli, freshly back from a successful stint in Japan, inheriting the ace torch from Richter and the rise of new stars like Magnificent Mimi, Denise Storm, Reggie Bennet, Malia Hosaka, Debbie Malenko and Bambi, as well as the peak of collaboration with AJW and the mexican women's scene, they would become the worst years of the company along with the early 00s, due to the shift in landscape in wrestlign and the refusal to adopt the edgier and racier content that was en vogue at the time.
The mid-00s, however, would mark yet another reversal of fortunes, for the promotion left the NWA and bought back its old belts from the bankrupt AJW in 2005 and Dave Prazak arrived on the booking team. the arrival of internet forums and video sharing websites allowed the WWWA to keep having a cult following and keep a presence on television.
Thanks to the world embracing the progressive trends of the 2010s, the promotion got back into the national consciousness, and its partnership with STARDOM and the mildred Burke dojo producing quality women athletes regularly, the WWWA is now at its strongest position since the 80s.
And there you have it. Next up, the career trajectory of my waif...i mean, my favorite 80s western woman wrestler: Velvet McIntyre!
This is inspired by the rebooking series of Marc91 and Joshspicer
A HISTORY OF THE WORLD WOMEN'S WRESTLING ASSOCIATION
The WWWA was founded by Mildred Burke on the back of Burke's divorce from promoter Billy Wolfe. While she had the loyalty of all the women wrestlers, who defected to Burke's peomotion, the early years of the promotion, which was based in Los Angeles, California, were marked by constant struggles advocating for Women's Wrestling being recognised and respected, and the establishment of the WWWA World Singles title as the real world women's championship.
While Burke and the women were busy beign united in their battle for equality, the promotion's initial shows featured established names like Ella Waldek, Mae Young, Gladys Gillem, Millie Stafford, Shirley Strimple, Cora Combs, Lorraine Johnson and Burke herself.
In 1955, in a shocking twist, Burke managed to reconcile with and poach NWA world women's champion June Byers from Billy Wolfe, a huge coup that legitimised the WWWA and hurt Billy Wolfe's standings as the premier women's promoter. The following year would be one of the most important years in Women's Wrestling in america, for Mildred Burke wrestled her last match, putting over Byers and making her the new WWWA World Women's champion and ace of the promotion, while Billy Wolfe would die in a car crash, thus making Burke the defacto main promoter for Women wrestlers.
With Byers's technical skills and charisma and Burke's promotional knowhows, the WWWA started consoliding their position in Los Angeles in the late 50s, with young talents like Ida Mae Martinez, Judy Grable and Penny Banner making their mark alongside the established girls. Burke also brought the girls on tour in countries like Japan, Mexico and Canada to promote women's wrestling there.
The 60s would mark a turning point for the promotion and women's wrestling. First off, the NWA, after years of efforts and advocacy, finally accepted the WWWA into its ranks, which led to Burke inheriting the NWA World Women's championship as the new top belt, with the WWWA World Women's title now renamed the singles title and now serving as the secondary belt. The arrival of syndicated television also brought new eyes on the product across the states, with the rivalry between June Byers and Penny Banner attracting attention and the women athletes, under the close watch of Burke to ensure they were well-treated, were booked in territories that allowed women's wrestling, such as Wrestling at the Chase in St. Louis, Texas and Portland
But, above all else, it was The sweeping social movements and changes of the 1960s that helped the WWWA gain influence and importance. More and more young women registered at Mildred Burke's wrestling school in Encino, whcih led to a new generation of women athletes filling up the roster: chief among them Kay Noble and Betty Niccoli, who would end up becoming the breakout stars of the new generation, with Noble's title win over Penny Banner at the newly opened Anaheim Convention center in 1967 and Noble's rivalry with Niccoli drawing big money for the promition in the late 60s and 70s.
Durign that time, Women's wrestling started making waves in canada and especially Japan, where All Japan Women's wrestling was founded by the Matsunaga brothers. With the WWWA now having two main titles in the NWA World Women's and Tag Team titles and the WWWA's own titles, a historic deal was struck, where Burke sold the WWWA World Singles and Tag Team belts to AJW in exchange for a long-lasting working agreement between the two promotions. The deal would be offcialised when Niccoli lost the WWWA Belt to Jumbo Miyamoto in Japan, and the creation of a new secondary belt, the NWA US Women's title, in 1968.
Around this time period, the influx of talent from Burke's wrestling school also allowed for the undercard and tag team division to thrive, with Sweet Georgia Brown notably becomign the first black woman to win a singles title when she won the US women's belt and the likes of Ann Casey, Jean Antone and Beverly Shade feuding for said belt, Karen Kellogg, Evelyn Stevens a d Ethel Johnson the main stars of the lightweight division (the latter being the first black woman to win a major title when she won the NWA World Women's Tag belts with June Byers ina groundbreaking Interracial tag team), and tag teams like the Boucher Sisters, Jane Sherill and Patty O'Hara, the Honey Blondes, the african-american team of Babs Wingo and Ramona Isbel and youngsters Donna Christenello and Toni Rose fighting for the championships.
The 70s continued the momentum started by the 60s, with Women's Wrestling being allowed in more and more states before the groundbreaking lift of the ban in New York in 1972. Kay Noble vs Betty Niccoli became the talk of the town in the 70s, with a new generation arriving with the likes of Sue Green, Vivian Vachon, Joyce Grable and Sandy Parker. Those four young women would headline the 70s alongside Niccoli and Noble, with Parker becoming the first African woman to win the NWA World Women's title after she took the title from Sue Green in 1977 (those two also retroactively became the first LGBTQ women to become world champions after they came out later in their lives).
Parker also became tag team champions in both america and japan with various partners like Jean Antone and Niccoli in japan and Sue Green in America, with Green, Niccoli, Vachon and Parker being the big three that traded the world title between one another while Joyce Grable never mamaged to win.the world title, but made a name for herself with both her US title reigns and rivalry with Vachon and Jean Antone and her tag team with Vicki Williams, who were the main rivals to the dominant tag team of Donna Christenello and Toni Rose, whose dominance of the tag scene in the 70s was unprecedented.
All those developments culiminated in the 80s and early 90s, which are considered the golden age of Women's Wrestling worldwide. With the UWA in Mexico having a prominent women's division, All Japan Women at the peak of its popularity and quality and the WWWA, now under Penny Banner's rule, reaching a national TV Deal, Women's Wrestling reached heights it hasn't reached before. In the WWWA, it was dominate by the Trinity of Velvet McIntyre, Leilani Kai and Wendi Richter. The latter became the biggest star in women's wrestling, transcending the sport with her friendship with Cyndi Lauper, her hip image and her appearances on talk shows promoting the sport and puttign over her rivals. She, Velvet and Leilani feuded with each other in both tag team and singles, while they were supported by a deep supporting cast of various talents such as Sensational Sherri, Princess Victoria, Susan Sexton, Rhonda Sing, Madusa Micelli and many others.
While the 90s started off really strong, with Madusa Micelli, freshly back from a successful stint in Japan, inheriting the ace torch from Richter and the rise of new stars like Magnificent Mimi, Denise Storm, Reggie Bennet, Malia Hosaka, Debbie Malenko and Bambi, as well as the peak of collaboration with AJW and the mexican women's scene, they would become the worst years of the company along with the early 00s, due to the shift in landscape in wrestlign and the refusal to adopt the edgier and racier content that was en vogue at the time.
The mid-00s, however, would mark yet another reversal of fortunes, for the promotion left the NWA and bought back its old belts from the bankrupt AJW in 2005 and Dave Prazak arrived on the booking team. the arrival of internet forums and video sharing websites allowed the WWWA to keep having a cult following and keep a presence on television.
Thanks to the world embracing the progressive trends of the 2010s, the promotion got back into the national consciousness, and its partnership with STARDOM and the mildred Burke dojo producing quality women athletes regularly, the WWWA is now at its strongest position since the 80s.
And there you have it. Next up, the career trajectory of my waif...i mean, my favorite 80s western woman wrestler: Velvet McIntyre!
This is inspired by the rebooking series of Marc91 and Joshspicer
