closetofanxiety: Mildred Burke was everything the WWE pretends Moolah was: tremendous wrestler (she
closetofanxiety: Mildred Burke was everything the WWE pretends Moolah was: tremendous wrestler (she started as a shooter in carnivals), huge star (she headlined over men in the late 1940s and early 1950s), pioneer (her tours of Japan in the 1950s sparked the beginning of joshi puro - Burke’s world title was the top belt in All Japan Women starting in 1970), and none of this is known to anyone except huge nerds like me because Burke got blackballed from the industry by her scumbag husband Billy Wolfe after they divorced. Wolfe was tight with the NWA board, who sided with him against Burke, meaning she effectively couldn’t wrestle in any major North American territory from the mid-1950s on. The ascent of Moolah - lousy wrestler, non-existent draw, appalling human being - was possible only because Burke was frozen out of the business by the NWA cartel. It feels every true female wrestling fan feels completely disgusted about moolah being honored. Ive been hearing rumours about moolah whoring and raping young talent for decades. But flood gates have really broken open -- source link