Showing posts with label LPWA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LPWA. Show all posts

Saturday, June 17, 2017

Women's Wrestler Bambi


Selina Majors began her in ring career in 1986 under the name Bambi for the Powerful Women of Wrestling promotion.  PoWW was promoted by David McLane who also created G.L.O.W. and the Women of Wrestling promotion.

In 1987 Bambi would go to the AWA feuding with Madusa Miceli, she also competed in the Lingerie Battle Royal at AWA SuperClash III.  Also in 1987 she would become a wrestler and valet in the Continental Wrestling Federation seconding Tom Prichard to the ring and tagging with him against the Dirty White Boy and Dirty White Girl.

Bambi vs. Judy Martin
In 1990 she joined the LPWA: Ladies Professional Wrestling Association. She would see her highest profile match at that point in her career as she wrestled the LPWA Women's Champion Susan Sexton at the NWA Clash of the Champions XII on September 5, 1990 in Asheville, North Carolina.

Late 1991 she would return to World Championship Wrestling when they revitalized their women's division.  Primarily feuding with Madusa she also had matches with Judy Martin and Leilani Kai.

In February 1994 Bambi traveled to Japan competing for the Frontier Martial Arts promotion also known as FMW.  She competed in various matches in singles and tag team competition teaming at times with Leilani Kai.  She also wrested in the FMW & WWA Women's Title Tournaments.

Madusa vs. Bambi WCW Power Hour 1991
Later in 1994 she entered Smoky Mountain Wrestling feuding with Tammy Fyth, later Sunny in the WWE.  She would team with the Rock N' Roll Express: Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson in a series of six person tag team matches against Fytch and her charges Chris Candido & Brian Lee.

Through-out her career Bambi had a long running feud with Peggy Lee Leather that crossed promotions.  They had matches in Smoky Mountain Wrestling, NWA, WCW, and all across the independents.  They feud went to the next level in late 2000 early 2001 in the Women of Wrestling Promotion.

On the very first episode of WOW television Leather, now going by the moniker Thug defeated Bambi, now going by Selina Majors.  Fast forward to episode 12 in November 2000 Majors defeated Thug in a falls count anywhere match.  On episode 15 in December they fought to a no-contest in a Lumberjack Match.


Their feud in WOW came to a head at the promotions only Pay Per View event WOW Unleashed February 4, 2001.  In a Steel Cage match Thug defeated Majors.  This cage was essentially a Hell in a Cell cage without the roof.

After WOW closed it doors Bambi continued wrestling on the independents in the South.  There is a documentary called Southern Discomfort: Wrestling on the Indie Circuit that is pretty fantastic.  It came out in 2002 and is about an indie show in Alabama.  Bambi and Peggy Lee Leather had a match against each other that night and are featured in the picture.  Worth watching if you can find it.

After a few years off Bambi returned to wrestling in 2016.  She wrestled Amber Gallows failing to capture the NWA Women's Championship on February 20, 2016 in Barnesville, Georgia and returned to WOW as Selina Majors when the promotion reactivated in fall of 2016.

Bambi vs. Peggy Lee Leather 2005
You can find many of her matches as both Bambi and Selina Majors on YouTube, including her Steel Cage match with Thug and recent match with Amber Gallows.  You can also see her match with Sexton from the Clash of the Champions on the WWE Network.

I've always been a fan of Bambi and she is someone that I would love to meet some day at a convention or even better to watch her and Peggy Lee Leather have one more match in person.

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Saturday, May 27, 2017

The Nasty Girls: Linda Dallas & Kat LeRoux

Women's Wrestling is more popular now than it has ever been in my lifetime with the casual wrestling fan.  After the Rock n' Wrestling boon of the mid 80's the Women's Wrestling seen slowly began to dwindle on the national level.  It didn't disappear it just wasn't as prevalent but it was kept alive with such groups as the Ladies Professional Wrestling Association, Powerful Women of Wrestling, and Delta Tiger Lillies to name a few.  Two women who toured this circuit as well as having exposure on the national level were Linda Dallas and Kat LeRoux (sometime spelled Kat LaRoux)

The Nasty Girls: Kat LeRoux & Linda Dallas
Information on these two ladies on the internet is scarce except what I have managed to put together in my research.  I would have thought with all the wrestling conventions these two, as well as Misty Blue, Black Venus, Heidi Lee Morgan, and other from that time frame would be making appearances at them.  I still hope one day to be able to meet them and thank them for their contributions to wrestling.


Linda Dallas

Hailing from the Utica, New York area Dallas began training in 1983 with Killer Kowalski in Massachusetts.  A long time opponent of Misty Blue they two would wrestle many matches against each other in many promotions from the independents, AWA, NWA, WCW, and more.  Often Linda Dallas found herself traveling around with Misty Blue and Kat LeRoux as well as other including Black Venus, Mad Dog Debbie, and more.

In 1985 Dallas would appear for Verne Gagne's AWA, and World Class Championship Wrestling in Texas.  In 1986 she found her way to Jim Crockett Promotions wrestling on and off until 1988.  She traveled around the independents in the northeast including Joel Goodhart's Tri-State Wrestling Alliance in 1990.  In 1991 Dallas and her troupe wrestled a few shows for World Championship Wrestling.

It was in the LPWA: Ladies Professional Wrestling Association that Linda Dallas and Kat LeRoux would adopt the tag team name of The Nasty Girls.  Even though they had been teaming together on and off for a few years.


The Fall 1994 issue of Fighting Females Magazine has an interview with Linda about her retirement.  I have been trying to find this issue so I can read the interview.

The last record of a match I can find of Linda's was for the TWWF: Trans World Wrestling Federation in Sayreville, New Jersey on October 3, 1992 she was defeated by Misty Blue.

One of my favorite things about Linda Dallas was how she would yell and carry on in the ring.  At her opponent, at the referee, the audience, she was so loud and it was great!


Kat LeRoux

Trained with Killer Kowalski at his school in Malden, Massachusetts at the age of 16 debuting in 1985.  Initially a baby face teaming with Misty Blue before turning heel and joining Blue's nemesis Linda Dallas remaining heel for the rest of her career.

Kat LeRoux with Misty Blue
Her career path appears to parallel that of Linda Dallas, she too worked for, IWF, ICW, USWF, NCW, Jim Crockett Promotions, Florida Championship Wrestling, Delta Tiger Lillies Joel Goodhart's TWA and Tor Berg's LPWA where she teamed with Linda Dallas and they adopted the name The Nasty Girls.

She did and an interview in New Wave Wrestling Magazine issue 10 April 1993.  Again I'm trying to find a reasonably priced copy of this magazine to learn more about her story.

The last recorded match that I can find of Kat's is for the WWA: World Wrestling Association in Clementon, New Jersey on May 1, 1993 and she too was defeated by Misty Blue.  I read that she retired in 1995.

What both of these lovely ladies did after they left wrestling is essentially a mystery.  Again I would love to see them show up at a convention so fans can pay their respects.

You can find their matches on the WWE Network just search their names.  Also YouTube has many of their matches from through-out their careers.

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