A national tragedy: The Fabulous Moolah, dead at 84.
Here's the New York Times obituary. Money quote:
And here's the great dame in action:
Here's the New York Times obituary. Money quote:
The Fabulous Moolah enjoyed the mayhem, but she especially coveted the money.
When she started in pro wrestling in the early 1950s, the promoter Jack Pfeffer decided a name change was in order. As she told it in “The Fabulous Moolah: First Goddess of the Squared Circle” (Regan Books, 2002), written with Larry Platt, Pfeffer told her “the name Lillian Ellison wouldn’t do. Not flashy enough.”
He asked her why she was wrestling, and, as she recalled: “Annoyed, I blurted out: ‘For the money. I want to wrestle for the moolah.’”
And here's the great dame in action:
