1998 Women's Wrestling Convention

[Naji]

17 years ago... A wonderful collage by Rick Ryan of photos from the convention in San Diego, with GLOW's Queen Kong, Hollywood, Tori Sinclair, Helen von Mott, DWW girls...



I wonder if something like this can still be done in this day and age. Gotta love the stands of California Wildcats, Competitive Enterprises - with all the magazines, booklets and VHS tapes.

[brsimmons]

One of my great regrets is never making one of those conventions. You can see pics of the Hana-Momo match I mentioned. And there were rooms off the main floor where many women--from DWW, Unique Leigh, Mia from DT, Lisa Comshaw, many more--were available for private sessions. The first two events were apparently rousing successes, and the participation of DWW was a big boost. G.R. decided to quit bringing the girls after the first 2-3, and that didn't help. The last one (I think 2001 or 2002) was raided by police for some flimsy reason and shut down. IIRC, JackPin tried to put together another one a few years later, but it just never worked out. Instant downloads rather than video sales probably helped keep DWW away. It might work again, but it would be more for independent ladies rather than companies as it was back then. In the late 90s, there were so many companies springing up that appreciated the chance for great advertising directly to their client base, so they'd set up booths and include some of their girls in matches in the ring. Today it would probably be more a deal where a Skylar Rene or Julie Squeeze would get paid to have a match or two and then they could have as many sessions as they could handle in a two of three-day event. Thing is they can just about do that now when they travel, so I don't know.

[Naji]

Thanks for the insight yet again, @[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]! I posted this collage here because your comment about Hana-Momo match in the other topic reminded me of it.

Originally Posted by brsimmons [Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]

Today it would probably be more a deal where a Skylar Rene or Julie Squeeze would get paid to have a match or two and then they could have as many sessions as they could handle in a two of three-day event.

That's how the Femwrestle events are done atm, btw.

[Naji]

In this event there was a beautiful competitive mixed wrestling match between Kristie Etzold and her boyfriend at the time, Charlie. It was published later by Flamingo Wrestling. I posted it in the contributors' section last summer. Here it is:

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[Raoul Fulgurex]

Originally Posted by Zweig [Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]

In this event there was a beautiful competitive mixed wrestling match between Kristie Etzold and her boyfriend at the time, Charlie. It was published later by Flamingo Wrestling. I posted it in the contributors' section last summer. Here it is:

That is a seriously great video, thank you ! I knew only the picture you posted and it was one of my favourites.

[caddy77]

Agreed. I'd only seen a minute-long clip of the figure 4 bit on YouTube before but this is a great match - almost as good as Kristie in SK's Bow Echo.

[Naji]

Some more photos from the convention:

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[oldrugger82]

Originally Posted by Zweig [Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]

Some more photos from the convention:

Thanks for posting these, hopefully someone will be able to assemble a similar convention one of these days.

[mikebt]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but does anyone know who Helen Von Mott fought at this event?

Vera travelled back to the States in 1998 together with some of DWW finest, including Hana, Ingrid and Denise to take part in a wrestling convention event where they fought Helen von Mott and another American girl.

The other American girl is obviously Momo and her fight against Hana. Denise was one of the best wrestlers at DWW so that would be my guess, but I've also heard it might have been Elena. She had an epic fight against Raquel back in the day.

[Prosperity]

Originally Posted by mikebt [Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but does anyone know who Helen Von Mott fought at this event?


The other American girl is obviously Momo and her fight against Hana. Denise was one of the best wrestlers at DWW so that would be my guess, but I've also heard it might have been Elena. She had an epic fight against Raquel back in the day.

I think Helen faced off with TanyaKicks at the ‘98 event.