19.04.2010, 00:15
Der Artikel gibt mal so ein paar Eindrücke, wie wichtig Wolfe im Women's Wrestling gewesen ist.
Billy Wolfe
Oktober 1952
“Billy Wolfe, Impresario of Girl Wrestling is 55 years of age and was born on a farm in Davies County Missouri. Around the age of thirty, he was recognized in his home state of Missouri by the wrestling commission as the Missouri State Champion. While that is a small sounding title when compared to his fabulous booking business of today, Billy still cherishes fond memories of that title. At about this same period Billy was also Wrestling Coach for Amateur Wrestling at the YMCA in Kansas City, and had his own private gymnasium for training both men and women for professional wrestling. It was in this private gym that he trained and produced Mildred Burke, the present World Champion girl wrestler. Women wrestling is not a new thing as there are some islands in the Pacific, West of Panama, where for unkown centuries the native women settle certain disputies by wrestling each other. In the ruins of Tibet --- massive decaying walls of temples of another area --- have been found carvings on some of the walls near the top of buildings depicting women wrestling with each other. This proves for a certainty that women have wrestled for thousands of years, however, we do not know what the women of Tibet were wrestling for, whether it was for prizes or to settle disputies, but it proves without a doubt that they were interested in this athletic activity even at that early date.
When Billy Wolfe started training girls for professional wrestling, there were quite a number of girls throughout the United States who wrestled only in carnivals, circuses and on the stage in burlesque and vaudeville theaters. But no girls anywhere in the United States, or anywhere in the world where professional wrestling existed, were accepted or permitted to wrestle in the regular wrestling shows where men wrestlers performed. Billy Wolfe is one of the only man in the world who put girl wrestlers in the same auditoriums and on the same programs where men wrestlers were booked. Wolfe first convinced the Wrestling Commission of the State of Alabama that it was alright for girls to perform on regular wrestling shows. Then the State of Texas followed, with the Kentucky Commisson being the third state to okay girls. Most State Wrestling Commission were skeptical and in some instances it took several years to sell a State Commission on the idea. However, at the present time the Billy Wolfe Booking Office is booking girl wrestlers in 42 of the 48 states, in Western Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico and South America.
When Wolfe first started out he personally trained the girl wrestlers which he booked, but at the present time girls have are being trained for wrestling in many sections throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico --- that they can be accepted by the Billy Wolfe Booking Office for professional appearances. Throughout the United States, Wolfe will average having girl wrestlers in eight different cities every day of the week from Monday until Saturday, which is the largest wrestling booking business in the world owned and managed by one man. There are at present time some girl wrestlers in various parts of the country and other countries that are booked by other promoters, but it can safely be said that 95 percent of all booking of girl wrestlers in the United States and foreign countries is done by Billy Wolfe.”
Billy Wolfe
Oktober 1952
“Billy Wolfe, Impresario of Girl Wrestling is 55 years of age and was born on a farm in Davies County Missouri. Around the age of thirty, he was recognized in his home state of Missouri by the wrestling commission as the Missouri State Champion. While that is a small sounding title when compared to his fabulous booking business of today, Billy still cherishes fond memories of that title. At about this same period Billy was also Wrestling Coach for Amateur Wrestling at the YMCA in Kansas City, and had his own private gymnasium for training both men and women for professional wrestling. It was in this private gym that he trained and produced Mildred Burke, the present World Champion girl wrestler. Women wrestling is not a new thing as there are some islands in the Pacific, West of Panama, where for unkown centuries the native women settle certain disputies by wrestling each other. In the ruins of Tibet --- massive decaying walls of temples of another area --- have been found carvings on some of the walls near the top of buildings depicting women wrestling with each other. This proves for a certainty that women have wrestled for thousands of years, however, we do not know what the women of Tibet were wrestling for, whether it was for prizes or to settle disputies, but it proves without a doubt that they were interested in this athletic activity even at that early date.
When Billy Wolfe started training girls for professional wrestling, there were quite a number of girls throughout the United States who wrestled only in carnivals, circuses and on the stage in burlesque and vaudeville theaters. But no girls anywhere in the United States, or anywhere in the world where professional wrestling existed, were accepted or permitted to wrestle in the regular wrestling shows where men wrestlers performed. Billy Wolfe is one of the only man in the world who put girl wrestlers in the same auditoriums and on the same programs where men wrestlers were booked. Wolfe first convinced the Wrestling Commission of the State of Alabama that it was alright for girls to perform on regular wrestling shows. Then the State of Texas followed, with the Kentucky Commisson being the third state to okay girls. Most State Wrestling Commission were skeptical and in some instances it took several years to sell a State Commission on the idea. However, at the present time the Billy Wolfe Booking Office is booking girl wrestlers in 42 of the 48 states, in Western Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico and South America.
When Wolfe first started out he personally trained the girl wrestlers which he booked, but at the present time girls have are being trained for wrestling in many sections throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico --- that they can be accepted by the Billy Wolfe Booking Office for professional appearances. Throughout the United States, Wolfe will average having girl wrestlers in eight different cities every day of the week from Monday until Saturday, which is the largest wrestling booking business in the world owned and managed by one man. There are at present time some girl wrestlers in various parts of the country and other countries that are booked by other promoters, but it can safely be said that 95 percent of all booking of girl wrestlers in the United States and foreign countries is done by Billy Wolfe.”