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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.
Halloween is almost here, which means more Halloween related, wrestling pop culture content. And while the wrestling horror movie sub-genre is still a work in progress, you can still get your Halloween/wrestling fix by watching these 10 wrestling episodes from TV shows that deal with the supernatural. And the best part is, most of these shows are either streaming on Netflix or Hulu.
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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.
Medium: Television
Title: Walker, Texas Ranger
Bio:Â Against doctor’s orders, the once-retired Cody “The Crusader” goes on to headline a long-awaited rematch against his greatest rival, The Warlock. Reports state that Cody was paid half a million dollars for his return bout, making it one of the largest paydays in both real and fictional wrestling history.
Signature Move:Â Overcoming an aneurysm.
Medium: Television
Title: The Characters
Bio: An everyman type of underdog, “Fighting” Jack Fletcher was as good a wrestler as he was at delivering on his promises made during awkward backstage interviews.
Signature Move: Crapping his pants.
Medium: Television
Title: Mister Ed
Bio: Looking to curb his overeating and sudden weight gain, Tiger turned to ballet to get back in shape and even incorporated it into his wrestling style. It proved so successful that he hung up his wrestling boots for a pair of ballet slippers.
Signature Movie: The pirouette.
Medium:Â Television
Title:Â Mama’s FamilyÂ
Bio: The Masked Mabels were once the most dominant tag team in the women’s wrestling division. Despite their size and years of wrestling experience, they were easily defeated by a wrestling grannie on the biggest show in the history of Raytown.
Signature Move:Â Jobbing to an older lady who has never wrestled.
Medium: Television
Title: Trailer Park Boys
Bio: The Green Bastard roams the Sunnyvale Trailer Park looking to take on all comers. As long as they take off their shirts. Has only had one professional backyard wrestling bout, Â which was a tag team match that saw him on the losing end due to a disqualification.
Signature Move: Hammerin’ people.
Medium: Television
Title: Supernatural
Bio: Top Notch Wrestling’s brash, young, up and comer. Complains about having to wrestle drunken wrestlers, and apparently is against jobbing to Crazy D. Rumored to have backstage heat with booker, Gunner Lawless.
Signature Move:Â Refusing to job.
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