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\n Choke slams, reverse crabs, Canadian backbreakers — it’s all in a day’s work for La Gata Negra, an all-female, all-masked wrestling league. Founded by two veteran burlesque performers, LGN came about when Worm and Cheetah (full name: Mistress Cheetah, the Mean Mistreatah) got to talking about wrestling while backstage at a go-go dancing gig. Some modern female wrestling is good stuff, they agreed, but all too often it devolves into something — well, something less about wrestling than the often surgically enhanced physical attributes of the wrestlers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nWe must confess, the Dowbrigade has always been a big fan of women’s
\n wrestling. Back in college we fanatically followed GLOW<\/a> –
\n the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Shot in Vegas, most of the Ladies were
\n recruited straight out of casinos and strip clubs. They were BAD-ASSED
\n BABES, who could really throw their weight around. In
\n addition
\n to being
\n top-flight
\n athletes,
\n they sang, danced and performed in funny skits between matches. Who can
\n forget the No-Holds Barred Mud-Wrestling Match between Tina Morretti
\n and Lady Godiva (they used Chocolate Pudding!).<\/p>\nOur obsession reached the point that we actually dated one of the wrestlers,
\n "Spanish Red" for a few weeks. We still have the scars, physical and
\n emotional, that allow us to state unequivocally that Red’s nickname didn’t
\n come out of a bottle!<\/p>\nWe wonder if Norma Yvonne would be interested in La Gata Negra…..<\/p>\n
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Choke slams, reverse crabs, Canadian backbreakers — it’s all in a day’s work for La Gata Negra, an all-female, all-masked wrestling league. Founded by two veteran burlesque performers, LGN came about when Worm and Cheetah (full name: Mistress Cheetah, the … Continue reading