A trip down memory lane – 50 years of catfighting/wrestling memorabilia

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Inside of back cover from Golden Girls:

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Geez!!!  I think I'll give up posting my stuff.  Too bad because I have so much stuff to share with you.  I reduce my pics to 100 KB an they still disappear...  I'll revert back to the older method of posting small pics for now.  Not sure what else to do. Sorry folks.

I'm reposting the inside cover of the Golden Girls catalog for the third an last time...

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How about some early Joan Wise material.  Her first "Fighting Femmes" newsletter was published in 1979.  Attached are copies of the covers of her first two newsletters.

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OK then, I can only post small pics using the old method. My pics keep disappearing.  Very unfortunate and frustrating.

I'm going to post several pics from the first 6 Joan Wise's Fighting Femmes Newsletter, but only one pic per post to make sure that they don't disappear.

The first is a pic is from Newsletter 1 dated 1979.  It is a Special Pin Face Straddle Submission Match between Helen LustGarden and Jan Haefner who are both 5' 4" and weigh 140 lb.  Helen is the blonde on top.

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The next two pics are from the second newsletter also dated 1979.  It is a match between tall amazons Deena Zarra and Velvet Rhodes.  I leave the text in the first pic so you can read the descriptions.  The second pic is a close-up of these huge woman, and the small woman in the middle is the one and only Joan Wise who was the referee of this match.  Deena on the left is 6' 3" and 185 lb while Velvet on the right is 6' and 185 lb.   Wow...

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The next two pics are also from the second Newsletter.  The first is self-explanatory.  You can read it.  The second is only a pic (let me now if you want me to post the description) of Joan Wise versus Rita.  Joan weighs 115 lb in this match and she is the one applying the reverse headlock and body scissors combo to the heavier 130 lb Rita.

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The first pic is the cover of the Number 4 Newsletter where Joan writes about how well the Fighting Femmes was doing and what her plans were for 1980.  I there is an interest, I can post every page of these newsletter, but I'll only provide these samples unless you ask for more.  The second pic is from this same newsletter.  It is between newcomers Terry Martin and Chris Taylor.  Terry is 5' 5" and weighs 140 lb.  She's the one applying the body scissors to 5' 8", 145 lb Chris.  I love Chris' legs...

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The first pic is the cover of the Number 6 newsletter, dated 1980.  This was published the day before Joan was meeting Helen Lustgarten for the World Amateur Wrestling Championship (I'm going to guess here that this what they call Joan Wises's club's championship)  The second pic shows a couple of pics from two matches in this same newsletter.  The ladies on the left are 138 lb Genie St-James vs 126 lb Marcia Meyers.  Genie is the one applying the head scissors to Marcia.   The pic on the right is is a face straddle match between 138 Genie St-James and 140 lb Jan Haefner.  Jan is seen here face sitting Genie.   

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This picture is the back cover of Fighting Femmes Newsletter Number 5.  It contains pics of 125 lb Diana Davis going up against 135 lb Rita Jackson.  This was Diana's first match.  As you can see, Diana started very well, but Rita eventually gained control of Diana and won the match.

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Great thread wrstlvr! I was a reader of AiA, Claws and FGM, and Wildcats. The picture is from Wildcats, I've got loads more I can submit.
A favorite of mine of Judell's girls was Karen Arnold, she was so cute!
And I know what you mean the embarrassment that could sometimes occur when buying these mags from shops. When I bought them if there were any customers in the shop, I'd browse the innocent looking mags till they'd gone, then buy the girl fight stuff, which used to greatly amuse the woman who owned the shop.

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From Wildcats, strong stuff!

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Two pics from early edition of Wildcats, when it was printed on soft paper, and the back cover from the first edition of Claws.

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Cartoon from Claws. Ouch!

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On my October 3 post, I showed you two pics of Impact Productions' sheets.  The pics of the women are too small, so I enlarged some of them for you so you can appreciate them.  This is quite old but I still find it very sexy.  These are amongst the first brochures that I ordered.  Although I got them in the early 70s, they look older.  Enjoy...

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A couple more from Impact Productions