Made for Viceland , airing on TV May 15th in the US.
Season 1. Episode 6.
The story : Known as one of the first mainstream lady wrestlers.
Mary Ellen Ellison AKA The Fabulous Moolah paved the way for many up and comers as well as trained some of the best.
A true legend in her own right.
Losing her mother at age 9 , Mary was raised by her father and brothers.
It was a hard life.
She became a unwed mother young and would often attend local wrestling matches.
Mary wanted to be just like her idol Mildred Burke.
She then met Buddy Lee , they became a couple and business partners , with Mary mostly wrestling and Buddy promoting and booking.
The two trained and promoted many women wrestlers , namely the first South Carolina black women in wrestling , Susie Mae McCoy AKA Sweet Georgia Brown.
The stories known to Sweet Georgia Brown's children are not good ones , claiming much abuse from Mary and Buddy.
Things went on until Mary caught Buddy in bed with one of their girl wrestlers and threw him out.
Many of their girls went with Buddy and now Mary would go on to create her own empire of women wrestlers.
She lived on a compound where she housed many women , there she trained them for the ring.
Many of the girls thought at the time the money was the only thing Mary cared about.
Mary was forever wrestling , even against some of her best trainees.
She eventually went as far as winning back the championship from one of them.
She wrestled to just about the day she died and when the WWF decided to name a battle in her honor years after her death , days later decided to take away that honor due to the controversy which came with her name.
Stars (voice) Dutch Mantell , Mary Austin , Jim Cornette , Selina Majors AKA Bambi , Barbara McCoy , Kenny McCoy , Michael McCoy , Victoria Otis AKA Princess Victoria , Wendi Richter
Directed by Jason Eisener
Rated TV14
DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY/SERIES
"Take a bite and growl."
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