Photo credit: World Wrestling Federation Long before names like Jacqueline, Jazz, Sasha Banks (Mercedes Mone), Bianca Belair, Naomi, Jade Cargill, and other Black women became prominent in professional wrestling, there were women who entered the ring at a time when opportunities for Black female wrestlers were few and far between. One of those women was Black Venus, also known as Jean Kirkland. A powerful athlete who came to professional wrestling with a background in bodybuilding and...

The full story of Lynda Newton: The free-spirited valet who caused a stir in the Southern territories, then walked away and built a whole second life. Photo credit: Facebook If you followed Southern wrestling in the mid-1980s, you knew the name Dark Journey, even if you never knew much about the woman behind it. She showed up at ringside for barely two years, stirred up more controversy than performers who stuck around for decades, and then simply vanished. “Yes, I disappeared,” she once...

Photo Credit: JCP Precious, Patricia Williams, was one of the most charismatic and theatrical valets of the 1980s, a woman whose presence shaped entire storylines across WCCW, the AWA, and Jim Crockett Promotions. Though her work has faded from mainstream memory, her impact remains woven into some of the decade’s most dramatic and entertaining moments. Photo Credit - WCCW WCCW: Sunshine II and the Birth of Precious Precious entered the wrestling world in 1983 through World Class Championship...