Dowbrigade

Choke slams, reverse crabs, Canadian backbreakers — it’s all in a day’s work for La Gata Negra, an all-female, all-masked wrestling league. Founded by two veteran burlesque performers, LGN came about when Worm and Cheetah (full name: Mistress Cheetah, the Mean Mistreatah) got to talking about wrestling while backstage at a go-go dancing gig. Some modern female wrestling is good stuff, they agreed, but all too often it devolves into something — well, something less about wrestling than the often surgically enhanced physical attributes of the wrestlers.

We must confess, the Dowbrigade has always been a big fan of women’s
wrestling. Back in college we fanatically followed GLOW -
the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Shot in Vegas, most of the Ladies were
recruited straight out of casinos and strip clubs. They were BAD-ASSED
BABES, who could really throw their weight around. In
addition
to being
top-flight
athletes,
they sang, danced and performed in funny skits between matches. Who can
forget the No-Holds Barred Mud-Wrestling Match between Tina Morretti
and Lady Godiva (they used Chocolate Pudding!).

Our obsession reached the point that we actually dated one of the wrestlers,
"Spanish Red" for a few weeks. We still have the scars, physical and
emotional, that allow us to state unequivocally that Red’s nickname didn’t
come out of a bottle!

We wonder if Norma Yvonne would be interested in La Gata Negra…..

from the Boston Globe