Netflix’s “Glow” arrives at a time when women who step inside the squared circle are taken much more seriously than they were 30 years ago.
The show re-creates the world of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, the campy all-female promotion whose 1980s heyday is fictionalized in the new series starring Alison Brie. Fittingly, its subject helped start that process three decades ago.
Last weekend’s Money in the Bank pay-per-view was emblematic of the current state of women’s wrestling in WWE, both in terms of how far it’s come and how much further it still has to go. On the one hand, it featured the first-ever women’s Money in the Bank ladder match (progress!), which guarantees the winner a championship match at the time of her choosing. On the other hand, it ended when a dude named James Ellsworth ascended the ladder and dropped the briefcase down...
The show re-creates the world of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, the campy all-female promotion whose 1980s heyday is fictionalized in the new series starring Alison Brie. Fittingly, its subject helped start that process three decades ago.
Last weekend’s Money in the Bank pay-per-view was emblematic of the current state of women’s wrestling in WWE, both in terms of how far it’s come and how much further it still has to go. On the one hand, it featured the first-ever women’s Money in the Bank ladder match (progress!), which guarantees the winner a championship match at the time of her choosing. On the other hand, it ended when a dude named James Ellsworth ascended the ladder and dropped the briefcase down...
- 6/23/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
WWE.com
Sexuality used to be a key element of WWE Raw.
I know, I know…don’t fall off of your chairs out of shock and awe.
During the height of Attitude, and even well into the Ruthless Aggression Era, women and their willingness to show off their bodies in highly sexual and suggestive matches and segments were as important to the 18-35 male demographic as the colorful characters and hardcore matches that occurred every Monday night. Those fans wanted as much to be turned on by the exploits of their favorite sexy, barely clothed Divas as they did the wild and chaotic action that unfolded elsewhere on the show.
Over the course of a decade, women such as Trish Stratus, Lita, Sable, Sunny, Christy Hemme and Stacy Keibler provided fans with exactly what they wanted. Whether they were kissing each other or kicking one another in Bra and Panties matches,...
Sexuality used to be a key element of WWE Raw.
I know, I know…don’t fall off of your chairs out of shock and awe.
During the height of Attitude, and even well into the Ruthless Aggression Era, women and their willingness to show off their bodies in highly sexual and suggestive matches and segments were as important to the 18-35 male demographic as the colorful characters and hardcore matches that occurred every Monday night. Those fans wanted as much to be turned on by the exploits of their favorite sexy, barely clothed Divas as they did the wild and chaotic action that unfolded elsewhere on the show.
Over the course of a decade, women such as Trish Stratus, Lita, Sable, Sunny, Christy Hemme and Stacy Keibler provided fans with exactly what they wanted. Whether they were kissing each other or kicking one another in Bra and Panties matches,...
- 11/20/2015
- by Erik Beaston
- Obsessed with Film
Playmate of the Year 2004 Carmella DeCesare Garcia is exercising some serious face control ... because the model's suing a Cleveland nightclub for using her image without asking first.In a lawsuit filed in Cleveland, 27-year-old DeCesare claims a local nightclub named "Sin" plastered her face all over a flier without her permission ... and more importantly, without paying her a dime.Club owner Gordon Stojkowski tells us, "I have no idea about this lawsuit."DeCesare -- who...
- 3/18/2010
- TMZ
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