{"id":4340,"date":"2017-04-29T12:22:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T16:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2017-04-29T12:22:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T16:22:16","slug":"glow-returns-tv-june-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/04\/29\/glow-returns-tv-june-23\/","title":{"rendered":"GLOW Returns To TV on June 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the 1980’s, women’s professional wrestling wasn’t exactly looked at with the same respect and attitude that it does today. While not as raunchy or sexist as many of the late 90’s Attitude Era would usher in, it was still an afterthought or a novelty in most major promotions, be in WWF<\/strong> or the NWA<\/strong>. While there were plenty of talented wrestlers in these promotions Women’s Divisions, their storylines were brief and miniscule and their matches were often few and far between.<\/p>\n

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80’s WWF Superstar Wendi Richter (Photo: WWE)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But from 1986 to 1990, there arrived a television show that sought to blend the rising boom of professional wrestling in the mainstream pop culture with an emphasis on women’s wrestling. And thus GLOW<\/strong> – Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling<\/strong> – was born.<\/p>\n

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Photo: GLOW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Formed out of Barbarella’s Gym<\/strong>, owned by Jackie Stallone<\/strong> (Sylvester Stallone<\/strong>‘s mother), GLOW was a combination of actresses, gymnasts and women who legitimately wanted to be pro wrestlers, all portraying characters in a fictional company, with storylines meshed between the match-ups. While this may sound like a blueprint for what Lucha Underground<\/strong> does today (like LU, GLOW had episodic seasons, with finales, character changes and departures), in reality it was closer to The Monkees<\/strong>. This was purely a created form of entertainment rather than a true promotion. And while most of the GLOW performers would fade from the industry when the show ended in 1990, some went on to bigger things in wrestling, such as Amy The Farmer’s Daughter<\/strong> (who went on to the AWA as Brandi Mae<\/strong>), Corporal Kelly<\/strong> (who went on to a brief stint in WWF under her real name Olympia Hartauer<\/strong> and AWA as Ms. Olympia<\/strong>), Dallas<\/strong> (who also competed in AWA as The Killer Tomato), Pepper (who would go on to AWA and WWF under her real name Cynthia Peretti<\/strong>), and perhaps the most successful GLOW alumni, Tina Ferrari<\/strong>, who is better known to wrestling fans around the world as former WWE Women’s Champion Ivory<\/strong>. After the series was ended in 1990, it shut down, seemingly forever.<\/p>\n