Saturday, January 18, 2014

The Play-by-Play is More Exciting Than What's Taking Place In -- and Out Of -- the Ring

I guess I lead a sheltered life. Until today, I'd never heard of Mae Young.

She's 74 in this clip.  Seventy-friggin;-four!


Mae Young, Unladylike Wrestler Who Loved to Be Hated, Dies at 90.  (The New York Times, 1/17/2014)

Imagine. She was 76 at the time.  In 2000, she won the W.W.E.’s Miss Royal Rumble Bikini Contest, defeating women 50 years younger after removing the top of her bathing suit.

You'll have to find the YouTube footage on your own.

According to the WWE, her signature move was the "bronco buster",

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