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| Fabulous Moolah vs. Sue Green | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 10 2012, 04:56 AM (229 Views) | |
| Entity | Apr 10 2012, 04:56 AM Post #1 |
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Women’s Championship (c) Fabulous Moolah vs. Sue Green 6/16/75 Madison Square Garden Green, billed as “Susan Green” here, has had quite the career in the business. She began training at age fourteen when Texas Governor John Connally (yes, the same guy in the car during the John F. Kennedy assassination and a man who’s known to posses magically bullet-altering powers) signed a waver allowing her to get her license to wrestle on weekends as long as it didn’t interfere with her school work. She had her first match on her 15th birthday and quickly gained a reputation as not only one of the best female workers in the industry, but one of the best workers period. Sadly, a broken neck in 1979 put her out of action for three years, and when she came back her trademark high-impact bumping and fast paced matches were no longer a possibility. Had that not happened, I have no doubt it would have been her and not Wendi Richter who would have been the biggest female star of the 80s. As of this writing, Green is still active in the business, now in her mid-50s, and trains people at her “Gym of Pain and Glory” in South Carolina. Here, you get glimpses of what could have been. Green plays the human-pinball role to perfection, bumping all over the ring for Moolah, who’s already well past her prime here. Yet both ladies cut an amazing pace and Green works in some pretty innovative spots between her spectacular bumps and selling. Moolah wasn’t quite as feeble as she would end up, and thus can work some pretty good chops in, which Green flies around for like she’s the long-lost twin sister of Curt Hennig. Fans were SUPER HOT for her and hated Moolah, who wins after Sue misses a splash off the top rope. ***3/4 Stars -Awesome women’s match that puts the efforts of 90% of the girls today to shame. Don’t skip this one, folks. An interesting note here. Shortly after this match, these two took their feud to Texas, where Green was from and thus was so over that Fritz Von Erich simply could not resist booking her to win the championship belt. All was well and good, except Von Erich never got permission from the NWA to change the title and they ordered him to give the belt back to Moolah before both left the territory and the title change was never recognized. The following year, the WWWF did get permission from the NWA to switch the championship over to the super-over Green at a show in Madison Square Garden. With Green about to leave the New York territory, Moolah felt she had little left going for her in the business without the championship belt. Her response? She actually BOUGHT the Championship belt from the NWA and then gave it back to herself a month after losing it. Green, not needing the title belt to get over, went on to be quite the attraction for a couple years before her neck injury while Moolah, now outright being the owner of the championship belt, used it to continue to get herself booked. In 1978, a misguided attempt to turn herself babyface resulted in a heel named Evelyn Stevens taking the title off her briefly. But Moolah had built up so much bad blood with the fans over the last couple decades that the fans were thrilled to see anyone, good or bad, beat her and thus they cheered the evil Stevens on as she cheated her way to victory. Moolah took the belt back two days later and high-tailed it out of Texas and decided to pretend the whole thing didn’t happen. That’s actually not an exaggeration either. In 1984, Moolah, strapped for cash and being on the verge of retirement, decided to sell the Women’s Championship to WWE, with one of the conditions for sale being that her title losses to Sue Green, Evelyn Stevens, and various others be erased from history. Thus Moolah is credited as having the longest uninterrupted reign in wrestling history, a line that is not only bogus but someone actually PAID HER to change history in her favor. They say history is written by the winner. In Moolah’s case, it’s written by those who paid to get property off her. |
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