Dark Side of the Ring 1x6

1. Now I understand you had a roug.

2. Ah, you wrestled a lady, and sh.

3. Yeah, well...

4. If that's what it takes to try,

5. that's what I'll do.

6. you can't say "women's wrestlin"

7. without thinking the fabulous m.

8. If she had not run the women's,

9. there may not have been women's.

10. Introducing, first, to my right,

11. former world women's champion...

12. The fabulous moolah!

13. as moolah, the promoter, I wanty

14. for my talent and I want to mak.

15. oh, come on!

16. Even to this day, if you say,"

17. the picture of moolah appears I.

18. if moolah was alive today...

19. I'd probably slap her.

20. She was so jealous of any woman

21. that was younger than her in wr.

22. She was also a manipulator, and.

23. She wanted to hurt me... Bruise.

24. I'll knock your teeth out!

25. There was drugs; there was sex;

26. there was a lot of abuse with m.

27. I'm like, wow, they waited 'tily

28. all these things so she couldn'.

29. I was warned, but I wanted to w.

30. She gave her whole life to prof.

31. She gave all these girls an opp,

32. for nobody to stand up for her,

33. Just couldn't deal with it.

34. She was a great professional wr.

35. But she didn't know when to sto.

36. On this episode, the life...

37. Legend, and controversy of the.

38. Fabulous moolah, with a wwf.

39. She made all of her costumes he.

40. Anything flashy, she loved.

41. She was just that kind of perso.

42. It really never impressed me the

43. to me she was just my mother ant

44. really realize how popular she.

45. My name is mary austin,

46. and I'm the only child of the f.

47. My mother kind of kept me out o,

48. but she loved the spotlight. (l)

49. she was determined to do it.

50. When you really love something,

51. you put yourself into it, and s.

52. This is one mary let me have. A,

53. how beautiful it is - sparkly,

54. — oh, yeah.

55. My name is selina majors. I wre.

56. Started in 1986.

57. I've been in it for 32 years.

58. I wanted my name, as a kid, to,

59. so I've got these big posters t,

60. "the fabulous moolah champion v.

61. Dynamite dixie majors".

62. I had this life-size doll, and d

63. I would body slam it, and climb,

64. and drop an elbow.

65. I'd stand in front of the mirro,

66. do little interviews and tell mh

67. how I was gonna come and wrestl.

68. As you can tell, I like the, th.

69. She was a heel. She played that.

70. My name's the fabulous moolah.

71. I've been wrestling since I was,

72. and I am the world's champion l.

73. They hated her, but that's what.

74. She's nasty and she cheats!

75. oh, I'd fix up a little spoon h,

76. about the size of your finger,

77. roll it up with tape and put it.

78. The meaner she was, the more th.

79. And she loved being a heel.

80. Stick it in their eyes, in the.

81. Ha!

82. The fabulous moolah started as,

83. and then she became the female,

84. and then she became the booker.

85. I first broke into wrestling as.

86. I was a 15-year-old kid and I we

87. photography that was sold in the

88. memphis wrestling territory.

89. "moolah, can I get a couple of "

90. always say for the magazines, r.

91. "why of course you can, darling"

92. and she had her stock poses. Bo,

93. and 30 seconds and she's off to.

94. Moolah pioneered the hair pulli,

95. scratching, crowd-pleasing kind.

96. She broke glass ceilings, one a.

97. She got into wrestling when the.

98. Women's wrestling was actually,

99. and moolah was the one that was.

100. She was the featured girl in the

101. first girl's match in the garde.

102. Now that she's almost 60, she's.

103. It's 1984, the rock 'n' wrestli.

104. Cyndi lauper and that whole era,

105. and madison square garden, and,

106. and rock 'n' roll stars...

107. And this place is ready to expl!

108. Got so much national attentid

109. everybody else started looking,

110. at pro wrestling.

111. She made it from the mid-50s to,

112. for the biggest payoff she ever.

113. There she is, the fabulous one,

114. the fabulous moolah...

115. Putting her title on the line!

116. There'll never be anyone to hav,

117. the guts that she had.

118. This must have been really old.

119. Look at that. Look at her hair.

120. This is a wrestling license.

121. Her mom passed away when she wa.

122. And then, it was her dad and he,

123. so she learned how to fight rea.

124. It was rough for her.

125. I was an only child and she was.

126. She went to wrestling matches e,

127. and my mother saw mildred burke.

128. She said, "that's what I want t"

129. it's mildred burke, of los ange,

130. world champion.

131. Back in the 30s and 40s,

132. mildred burke was such a legiti.

133. She was in tremendous shape,

134. and she just had a natural flai.

135. But behind the scenes, billy wo,

136. mildred burke's husband, was pud

137. managing the whole women's troo,

138. for good and bad.

139. When she was 17 or 18, she went.

140. When you became a wrestler for,

141. you automatically had to... Go.

142. She said she wasn't doing it,

143. and she could find some other wt

144. having to go to bed with him or.

145. What's the worst experience you,

146. you might want to say that, lik,

147. you ever had with a promoter?

148. that's kind of hard to.

149. - Really is. - Hm.

150. The fabulous moolah, at one poi,

151. was married to a guy named budd.

152. Buddy lee used to wrestle.

153. Of course, they met and they so.

154. And, she did most of the wrestl,

155. and he did most of the booking.

156. She basically copied the

157. mildred burke and billy wolfe p.

158. They kept their own stable; the.

159. And more importantly, a bookinge

160. out of all of the girls' pay.

161. You knew right off the bat why s

162. and why she wanted to be a star:

163. She loved money.

164. moolah would play such a dominan

165. women's wrestling that in 2018,

166. 11 years after her death,

167. her memory still loomed over th.

168. The wwe made the announcement o,

169. that they were going to honor th

170. by having the fabulous moolah m.

171. I thought it was very nice that.

172. Keeping her legacy going.

173. 2 or 3 days later, that'd all b.

174. Let's talk about the fabulous m.

175. I think it's a bunch of bull.

176. I really think it's a bunch of.

177. Moolah has an awful past.

178. Some really, really sick shit.

179. She was an evil person.

180. Moolah was pimping girls out.

181. A lot of the stuff was alleged,

182. we gotta say that. It's alleged.

183. Grossed out about it. Name it s.

184. It's not hard. Scrap it.

185. stories started coming out on t,

186. fabulous moolah, suddenly, was n

187. who took advantage of all these,

188. and pimped 'em out, and fed 'em,

189. and all this stuff.

190. They contacted the sponsors and.

191. I was very shocked because I kn.

192. I knew none of that was true.

193. And, thanks to nigel, he took t.

194. My name is nigel sherrod.

195. I'm mostly known as a wrestling.

196. The "fight for moolah" campaigne

197. we started a petition to put th,

198. and to honor the woman who broks

199. for everybody else.

200. I just wanted to clear her namee

201. moolah's not here to defend her.

202. Did moolah, indeed, take advant?

203. Some of the girls have said yes,

204. some of the girls have said no.

205. I think that it was ignorant cah

206. memorial battle royal because id

207. over 20 women, and they all sai:

208. "there's no truth to those rumo"

209. accusations about moolah polari.

210. They originated from an investiy

211. that quoted serious allegationsy

212. of one of her former wrestlers.

213. St. Mark, if you see these guys,

214. they, they are a professional f,

215. and they are doing an episode dh

216. pro women wrestlers...

217. Which one of 'em was my mother,s

218. first black female professional,

219. sweet georgia brown.

220. I'm michael mccoy.

221. I'm senior pastor at st. Mark b.

222. That article that came out in t,

223. it was about what my mother hade

224. while she was in wrestling.

225. I started a search to try to fi.

226. Maybe you could just tell us yod

227. a little bit about yourself.

228. Yes, my name is barbara harsey,

229. and I am the proud daughter of.

230. - Who is also known as? - Sweet.

231. when my mom went into wrestling,

232. she was with the so-called grea.

233. She said she was forced to do

234. a lot of things against her wil.

235. Now, these are just stories tha.

236. Do I know any truth to 'em?

237. No, I can't sit here and say I.

238. But, you know, when more than 1e

239. saying the same story...

240. You know, somebody ain't lying.

241. philip... Honey.

242. Can you walk these guys outside?

243. This is my husband, philip.

244. - Hi, how are y'all doing? - Ho?

245. Sure, sure I can.

246. - back here, hanging. - Oh, wow.

247. Back when moolah died, my husba,

248. he went over to tear down the b,

249. and he found a banister, the wo,

250. and he brought it back, thought,

251. you know, keep it.

252. For the better part of 25 years,

253. every top girl wrestler was tra,

254. booked out by moolah, and was c,

255. by moolah's group.

256. Can you tell us who sweet georg?

257. Yeah, she was one of the, the fn

258. to wrestle, and my mother train.

259. Believe it or not, it was on a.

260. it was unreal, but they learned.

261. I was told she had that drive t.

262. You know, it was like she had a,

263. she wanted to be there.

264. The first time I seen her wrest,

265. the place was jam packed.

266. Throwing each other out the rin,

267. they're kicking, body slamming.

268. I just figured, you know, this.

269. Being one of the first black fee

270. wrestling business, the kkks wa.

271. Segregation was really bad at t.

272. Whenever they were on the road,

273. my mother was very protective.

274. There was a time in mississippi,

275. she did have a run-in with some.

276. She was thrown on the floor of,

277. and she was scared for her life.

278. she'd 'a had to have been super,

279. in 1964, she was ranked #4 in t.

280. If she would 'a had the opportur

281. the world's title, she probably,

282. but moolah was most definitely a

283. student challenge her for the w.

284. when my mom went into wrestling,

285. she left us with one of her sis.

286. She'd call us names, "half-bree"

287. she was a witch.

288. God forgive me. She's dead and.

289. Every time my mother went on th,

290. just about, she was pregnant.

291. One of my aunts said that, "eve,

292. you come back home with one of,

293. half white kids, half-breeds," ,

294. you know, for years growing up.

295. I hated where she had left us.

296. I hated her career.

297. But then, when I got the full s.

298. From her, I kind of understood.

299. There's a lot of abuse with moo.

300. I saw her one time;

301. this big old car had pulled up.

302. She was getting out the back of,

303. and it was only for a few hours.

304. I didn't know the man's name at,

305. but he thought it was time to g.

306. My sister and I, we grabbed hol,

307. but he kind of like pushed her,

308. and she hit her head getting in.

309. I don't know if it was intentio,

310. or it was an accident.

311. My mom said everywhere she wentd

312. everything she did was done

313. according to buddy lee and mool.

314. I think she thought that it was,

315. but it turned out to be somethi.

316. I heard different stories about.

317. It's real sad.

318. And I have, I have no reason no.

319. There was one gruesome time tha.

320. She was told to drink, and pop,

321. and she was made to have...

322. Sex with other men.

323. On the road, some of the promoty

324. some of the girls until they sl.

325. From what my mother told me, sh.

326. And you can call it entertainin.

327. It's still pimping and prostitu.

328. buddy lee was not a nice person,

329. and my mother was on the road,

330. and she came home a day early am

331. in her bed with one of the girl.

332. And, she threw buddy out; that.

333. A lot of the girls went with hi.

334. Georgia brown was one of the gi.

335. I started to search for my fath,

336. one of the first places where is

337. with the fabulous moolah.

338. Honestly, I was almost kind of e

339. I heard of the moolah that evere

340. talked about, but...

341. The moolah that I met, she seem.

342. I asked moolah,

343. "did my mother ever talk about "

344. and moolah took me to her wall d

345. she pointed out this one pictur.

346. And I said, "who is this guy ri"

347. and she said, "well, his name I"

348. he was kind of rough on the gir.

349. I think that happened with swee,

350. that she was one that had to go.

351. And, matter of fact, I think th,

352. is proof of that.

353. If buddy lee's my father, then.

354. I wasn't coming in to look for d

355. I didn't want anything.

356. I just wanted to close a chapte.

357. I knew that everything was over

358. when my uncle burned up

359. all of her stuff and he poured,

360. and he set it on fire.

361. Right there in front of us.

362. At the end, she kind of thankedf

363. the things that she had to endu,

364. the things that she was made to,

365. by buddy lee, by the industry I.

366. Listening to your mom describe e

367. most horrific things she had to,

368. you can't just walk away.

369. Regardless of the abuse she wen,

370. regardless of if they made her,

371. they made her use alcohol, whet.

372. She still was south carolina's

373. first black female professional.

374. Honor it.

375. Sweet georgia brown's life was y

376. forces beyond her control.

377. For moolah to succeed,

378. she would need to build her own.

379. the fabulous moolah single-handr

380. women's training school into a e

381. that dominated the industry.

382. It attracted young women eager.

383. In columbia, south carolina, thd

384. moolah drive and on moe

385. house that moolah built, and al,

386. a variety of other buildings. I.

387. The women not only trained ther,

388. but they lived on the property d

389. moolah presided over it like a.

390. She took girls from all walks o,

391. and she brought 'em in, she tau.

392. She put it together like a groud

393. took care of the girls, and mad.

394. She was one of the most powerfun

395. in the wrestling business.

396. If you were a female wrestler ad

397. you wanted to get booked, you po

398. go through moolah or you weren'.

399. - I have a bunch of questions. .

400. I took my truth serum before I.

401. Okay.

402. my name is wendi richter.

403. Wendi richter!

404. I was a professional wrestler f.

405. The first time I ever watched a,

406. I watched the fabulous moolah v.

407. And I told my friend, "I could "

408. the referee gave me moolah's ph.

409. She told me to come on to colum.

410. I was there within 2 weeks.

411. My name's victoria otis.

412. I wrestled as princess victoria.

413. Victoria!

414. I come from a very, very abusiv,

415. and that's basically what took.

416. You had to want it.

417. You had to bleed, you had to cr.

418. When I was wrestling, it had be,

419. and I was told by my promoter,

420. "look, I've done all I can do.

421. I've tried to get you booked ot.

422. The only way I can get you books

423. I gotta send you to moolah."

424. I still remember a friend of mi,

425. "vickie," he said, "don't go to.

426. Find a job, get on your feet.

427. Just don't go to moolah's."

428. I was warned, but I wanted to w.

429. when you first got to the prope,

430. there's these big gates.

431. After dark, the gates were lock.

432. If you weren't home and you wer,

433. you got locked out.

434. Moolah had a roommate named dia,

435. and we all called her katie. An.

436. My name is diamond lil,

437. and buddy lee named me diamond.

438. Katie come from a hard backgrou,

439. and she was a wrestler, and shed

440. in the house with moo, and she.

441. And she's been right there withr

442. through thick and thin.

443. Katie liked to drink beer, but.

444. Katie used to come out to the p,

445. then I come in there and drop a,

446. and her and I'd sit there and d)

447. I was famous for getting the be)

448. they had apartments.

449. And she would put 2 or 3 girls,

450. and they would come down to the.

451. What I remember the most about s

452. was learning to drop kick.

453. I would go out there and drop k,

454. and drop kick, and drop kick, a.

455. The mat wasn't soft. It was all,

456. and by that time, a lot of it w.

457. There were buckets strategicall.

458. And it wasn't if you were gonna,

459. it was when you were gonna throd

460. would you hit the bucket?

461. The one thing that moolah taugh,

462. take a bite and growl.

463. moolah, she never trained me.

464. She just took the money and she.

465. She wanted her $300.

466. Now, can you imagine, 4 girls I,

467. she's getting $1200 a month? In!

468. And on top of that, she's takinf

469. what she's telling us we're pai.

470. Bull puggy.

471. I'm sitting here 24 hours a day,

472. making your connections with th.

473. All you got to do is sit your lr

474. and go to wrestle, and collect d

475. send me 25%. And I thought that.

476. That was fair.

477. there's a picture of me in thist

478. moolah presented to me at chrisf

479. all the girls, after she had gim

480. a 5, or $10 gift.

481. That was no cheap outfit. That.

482. That was a 2 to $300 outfit. Shn

483. privately and give me this outf,

484. she had to do it in front of th.

485. That was another one of her lit.

486. Everything brings back memories,

487. and it's like the flood gates g.

488. I was in a match.

489. I know it was the first or seco.

490. — a girl...

491. Shut up!

492. um...

493. The night I broke my neck in th.

494. A girl stumbled and she sat on.

495. That was the day my world fell.

496. it hurt so bad I couldn't stand.

497. I remember a moment at the hosp,

498. they had my neck braced.

499. I remember being on a cot.

500. Then the next thing I remember,

501. I don't know how, but I'm back y

502. and moolah's walking me out to.

503. She said, "I want to see if you"

504. I took a bump and I cried.

505. Every time I took a bump,

506. I felt like something was explo.

507. This went on for a month, two m.

508. Moo comes to me one day, she sa,

509. "hon, if you go see this guy in,

510. he'll give you pay day."

511. I thought to myself, I can't wr.

512. I get on the phone with this gud

513. I make it explicitly clear: It'.

514. the conversation after,

515. with moo was, "you know, hon,

516. the nicer you are to him, the b,

517. and you could really use a pay "

518. And so, was moolah so,

519. like, the idea that...?

520. When moolah looked at me and sa,

521. "you know the nicer you are to,

522. the nicer he'll be to you."

523. what else can I say?

524. When this guy first picked me u,

525. I said, "damn, this guy didn't,

526. he got beat by the whole damn f"

527. I wake up the next morning, I cd

528. I grab his hand and I'm holding.

529. I said, "dude, I will break you"

530. and she was fire engine red pis.

531. "I can't believe she didn't sle"

532. well, not a week after I got bae

533. and said, "look, you can't wres.

534. I'll take that yellow outfit, I"

535. that she gave me for christmas.Y

536. with my chevy malibu station wad

537. 20 bucks in my pocket.

538. She dumped me and I never wrest.

539. when I walked away 30 years ago,

540. my heart was broke.

541. I can't even explain it. I miss.

542. I missed my friends, I missed m.

543. And when I left, do you know wh?

544. She told them I was in prison f.

545. For god sakes, she couldn't tel,

546. and I was of no use to her anymo

547. 'cause then they knew their fat.

548. I love wrestling.

549. To protect this business, to me,

550. is like protecting the country.

551. If wrestling needed me, I'd do.

552. All someone has to do is ask.

553. Moolah!

554. As wrestling gained popularity,

555. the wwf looked to replenish itsr

556. with younger wrestlers.

557. Moolah's protégé, wendi richter,

558. was an obvious choice.

559. wendi richter, hell of a person.

560. Hell of a lady.

561. She loved her business. She hon.

562. She worked very hard to become.

563. Do you have an assumption as tos

564. so much friction between you an?

565. The only thing I can think of wn

566. is possibly she was jealous of e

567. I was younger than her.

568. And, like my father said, they e

569. on a can of dog food to sell it.

570. Wendi richter began to eclipse,

571. and she left moolah's stable to.

572. When I left moolah's, I had a on

573. with vince mcmahon and told himt

574. I didn't want to live there anyd

575. I did not want my check going t.

576. I wanted the check to come to m.

577. As soon as vince took over from,

578. he started making changes.

579. One advantage that he had was ts

580. had grown up in the new york ar,

581. and one of those was cyndi laup.

582. cyndi lauper was on an airplane.

583. And then, lou albano tells evert

584. he was managing cyndi lauper. )

585. I created and made cyndi lauper.

586. Took her from a nothing.

587. I don't know if anybody knows id

588. "girls just want to have fun," .

589. That's how all of this came tog.

590. It all boiled down to that lou,

591. "I'm going to choose someone to"

592. so lou albano chose fabulous mo.

593. Whoo, I'm happy!

594. And cyndi lauper chose me.

595. Moolah may have the world's cha,

596. but she also has lou albano on.

597. Oh, lou.

598. as soon as cyndi lauper got inv,

599. vince mcmahon saw gold and fostn

600. into the rock 'n' wrestling con.

601. - Happy new year! - At mtv!

602. The wrestlers giving their hand.

603. They have been involved with ro.

604. It brought the dated look of wr.

605. Wendi richter morphed from the,

606. wendi richter, a little bit mor,

607. little more rock 'n' roll, and e

608. mtv movement there in 1984 thath

609. paved the way for the first wre.

610. They were giving girls more of n

611. they probably ever had before.

612. They were really trying to esca,

613. trying to get equal to the men.

614. It was the turning point for wo.

615. Vince wanted to make wendi richt

616. as hulk hogan would be so he had

617. a female role model.

618. Since the most widely recognizen

619. of the previous 30 years had be,

620. wendi needed to beat moolah for.

621. Well, with that in mind, ladies,

622. we'd like to introduce to you tr

623. for the ladies championship, mi.

624. And the rest is history.

625. Ladies and gentlemen, this title

626. at madison square garden just m,

627. this lady to defend.

628. Their rivalry was about to exple

629. one of the most watched matches.

630. That was probably the most nervs

631. I've ever been in my life. I kn.

632. There was so much at stake and.

633. It was the culmination of my wh.

634. Moolah had been very jealous anf

635. that championship for a long ti,

636. but vince was able to write thef

637. money on a check and, that chan.

638. And also, by doing that,

639. moolah got vince mcmahon jr's l.

640. - 1, 2... -

641. that's when everything changed.

642. The winner of this title and ne!

643. Wendi richter!

644. — oh my word!

645. When I won the championship, it.

646. Everyone was up on their feet a.

647. I can't believe someone beat he,

648. and that someone was me.

649. It was a big deal for the fans d

650. to see wendi win, right.

651. But it was a bigger deal insidee

652. two generations of wrestlers hae

653. without ever seeing the fabulou.

654. It was shocking to the folks inw

655. about the stranglehold that moo.

656. Right here is the new champ,

657. the terrific symbol of the new.

658. My match against moolah for thes

659. kind of ground zero for women's.

660. And, it moved towards a differel

661. of women's wrestling.

662. See, what a lot of people don't,

663. once you step in that ring...

664. You're addicted.

665. I think moolah let her ego get.

666. And, moolah couldn't quit.

667. wendi, show 'em what you got!

668. cyndi lauper!

669. Oh my— we were on the top of a.

670. I remember: I was hot, I was hu,

671. I was thirsty, and it felt like.

672. When I went to visit my father r

673. in kokomo, indiana, people reco.

674. I'm thinking, they know me in k.

675. Even though wendi was a househo,

676. wendi wasn't getting paid like.

677. I found out, early in my career,

678. that the men were being paid fa.

679. But, if I'm the only one saying,

680. one person can be replaced.

681. Vince mcmahon, he had been push,

682. gonna make her a superstar, sheg

683. too big for her britches.

684. He decided that she needed to l,

685. and who's gonna beat her for th?

686. I was on the road constantly,

687. but it was always matches again.

688. Over and over.

689. I'll never forget, one time, sh-

690. the boston crab - with that, yok

691. 'cause you can break someone's.

692. Well, she did.

693. She tried to break my back. She.

694. My spine snapped like firecrack.

695. She was just so bitter.

696. I really believe in the golden,

697. treat others as you'd like to b,

698. but sometimes you gotta treat f.

699. And in the ring, when that bell,

700. you had no friends.

701. When I was to wrestle the spidea

702. championship match, it changed.

703. It changed my life.

704. I really didn't think anything.

705. I thought, well, it's just anot,

706. and it's against the spider lad.

707. Wendi said that moolah had show.

708. she didn't understand why moola.

709. I'd wrestled the spider lady bed

710. I didn't recall her being that.

711. A very determined young lady.

712. Gonna take one heck of a wrestlo

713. strip that title from her.

714. The match really didn't go that.

715. it was just a wrestling hold.

716. Spider going— oh, small packag!

717. The referee counted, "1," I kic,

718. had my shoulder up.

719. "2, 3."

720. - and that was it. -

721. what was that?

722. It appears that the referee has.

723. — the match was.

724. Then, the masked person...

725. Took their mask off...

726. And it was moolah.

727. - It is moolah! -

728. it is moolah! Take a look, kids!

729. Fabulous moolah, the oldest, sad

730. that knows all the tricks, she e

731. that was chosen because it was t

732. if things did break down,

733. that she could handle wendi leg.

734. Did you have any idea that, tha.

735. - Mm-mm. - ... In the match, at?

736. No. I couldn't tell who it was.

737. moolah! Moolah!

738. It was obvious who was under th.

739. Everybody in the arena knew who.

740. Wendi knew.

741. This double-cross blurred the In

742. business and story line.

743. Whatever the truth was, wendi c.

744. I demanded to talk to vince mcm,

745. and no one would tell me where.

746. I probably would have killed hi.

747. What vinny and moo did to her,

748. wendi was over like $1 million.

749. Her and cyndi lauper, and the c.

750. You know, wendi was over as big,

751. and maybe that was the problem.

752. The only thing I can think of I.

753. I feel like it was a sad situate

754. the girls should be paid maybe n

755. they were at the time.

756. But, when a promoter tells you,

757. you have to go with the one who,

758. whether you like it or not; thae

759. to walk away from it.

760. If everything had worked with w,

761. there would've been an establisn

762. with women featured in more imps

763. a lot before it actually happen.

764. I was angry for what she just d.

765. For so long she held it back, s,

766. she held it back. Then, finally,

767. it started to bloom and she kil.

768. I think moolah was afraid.

769. I think she was afraid of walki.

770. I left the arena fully dressed,

771. I hailed a cab in new york city,

772. and went to the airport.

773. They were dead in my life. They.

774. have you ever seen the footage?

775. I almost did. I couldn'.

776. What good would it do? The bitc!

777. I don't need to see it. (laughs.

778. in 1995, the fabulous moolah ben

779. inducted into the wwf wrestling.

780. Tonight is the greatest night o,

781. being inducted into the wwf hal.

782. By the year 2000, the wwf

783. had phased out traditional wome,

784. in favor of strip matches and c.

785. But moolah showed no sign of sl.

786. She teamed up with fellow wrest.

787. Mae young wrestled in 7 differe.

788. She was tougher than moolah, an.

789. Years ago, they, they had to pup

790. over the ring because they hate.

791. It's insane that more people sae

792. in the late 90s and early 2000s

793. when they were both everybody's.

794. Or, maybe the addams family's g.

795. I have to be real careful with.

796. Everywhere I go, she either wan.

797. This would be the place, I gues.

798. and then, of course, they go oud

799. they can take the tremendous bu,

800. and still somehow not break int.

801. Ah! Come on!

802. She should've stopped in her 60.

803. I mean, my god, she was 80 year,

804. wearing a checkered school girl.

805. — no, no, stop.

806. - Stop. Scooter, stop it. - (ba)

807. stop. Sh.

808. I get the last word, not you. B.

809. What was her funeral like?

810. It was crowded and I don't— I',

811. I don't know. I was just in a d.

812. I didn't even know that he was.

813. I just remember thinking that I.

814. In 2007, moolah passed away at.

815. The wrestling families showed us

816. to pay their respects.

817. This is where she's buried. Thi.

818. And this is katie's and this wa.

819. She had that little thing put t.

820. She said, "when you wanna come,

821. there's a bench in there.

822. You won't get wet if it's raini"

823. she was all I had.

824. And, I miss her every day.

825. No one can ever, can ever

826. be as good as she was. Never.

827. Women's wrestling today has unde

828. I don't think would have been pf

829. women in mixed martial arts, an.

830. Now it's so much more refined.

831. It wasn't that way in moolah's e

832. that wasn't her strong point.

833. 10 years after moolah's death,

834. her impact on wrestling remains.

835. well, I think in wrestling thers

836. between your character and who.

837. I believe that the fans couldn'e

838. between moolah and the characte.

839. Nobody really knows how it hurt,

840. that you worked for somebody an,

841. so you could get where you did.

842. She was— had never once ever d.

843. It just really pisses me off thy

844. the legacy of the fabulous mool.

845. I mean, I'll be honest with you,

846. bambi was never a famous wrestl.

847. If there's one thing that I cou,

848. it would be to save moolah's na,

849. and restore what she gave

850. to the professional wrestling b.

851. Moolah may have initially opene,

852. but she quickly closed the door.

853. She held women's wrestling back.

854. If moolah had left wendi with t,

855. I think women's wrestling would.

856. She wasn't as big a star as mil.

857. She's not as big a star as rond,

858. but she was the placeholder for.

859. How do you think people should,

860. should remember moolah?

861. Any way they like.

862. Everybody have their own opinio.

863. And me, personally, I don't hav.

864. None that I care to share.

865. If I choose not to like her

866. because of what she did to me,

867. But, moolah needs to be remembe.

868. She was an icon in this busines.

869. You can't take away her historye

870. she's an asshole!

871. All the girls that she trained,

872. and they know that they wouldn'w

873. without her, and they wouldn't e

874. career they had, without her.

875. Whoever's starting these rumors,

876. you're not just calling moolah,

877. you're calling me a prostitute..

878. And that hurts.

879. And, if you were not on that pr,

880. if you were not in that room,

881. you don't know what happened an.