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With International Women’s Day having just passed, and it being National Women’s History Month, I realized I could do more to spotlight the representation of women’s wrestling (both good and bad) in pop culture. And wouldn’t you know it, there’s enough TV episodes featuring women wrestling to make a top ten list. These are the best ones.
Medium: Television
Title: Jane the Virgin
Bio: The pride of Pensacola found herself on the losing end when she took on Juicy Jordan at the Melee at the Marbella in another match of their never-ending rivalry.
Signature Move: Blowing kisses to the crowd.
Medium: Television
Title: Jane the Virgin
Bio: The Santa Rosa native not only created, but also headlined, the Melee at the Marbella event in which she defeated her rival, Candy Crunch, in record time.
Signature Move: Moonsault off the second turnbuckle.
“Chapter Twenty”
Season 1, Episode 20
4/27/2015
In this wrestling episode, Jane the Virgin tries to show us a glimpse of what it would have probably been like if Kharma had decided to continue wrestling while being pregnant. Spoiler alert: the baby bump would’ve been used as a foreign object.
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