An opinion on womens wrestling April 2, 2010

I admit to being very fickle with womens wrestling, when it comes to men it is pretty irrelevent what they wear as long as they put on a convincing show. There are obviously a large number of men and women who like to see wrestling, and a good few like to see the guy wrestle in a pair of small shorts and have truly buff bodies, but having started my appreciation for the sport watching Saturday night wrestling when I lived on the east coast USA there were not many around pre-wwe, the characters were there but they were big old school men, strong but not cut, the likes of ‘Jake “The Snake” Roberts’.

There are a number of sub-genres much like the womens side that cater for everyone, the standard gay style wrestling where 2 guys in a ring very well built wearing very small briefs similar to bodybuilders competition briefs, which happily sits alongside the glamour style of womens wrestling with small straing bikinis and heels.

My issue is one I have heard so many times with female wrestling, the costumes are so wrong!!!!

Now I don’t mind a good catfight, it is certainly not my favorite genre but done well I like most men will watch, this is generally where the problem stems from, in a catfight whether starting dressed or just in Lingerie, the basis is 2 women ripping clothes and pants and bras off each other, pulling hair and in certain matches a bit of breast mauling. Of course there are sub-genres where they get sexual or start naked but the essence is there.

Based on this even 2 women in a professional ring harks back to a catfight and is often referred to as such and therefore cannot avoid sexual undertones?

Look at a film like California Dolls, Iris looked amazing in her one-piece high cut leotards and yes I’m sure many men looked at her from a sexual perspective but no more than a lady in a bar, at a club, on TV etc etc. So why do all these female wrestlers cover up so much.

Forgetting the likes of GLOW or POWW as these were meant to excite and looking at LPWA for instance, those women looked fantastic and NEW how to wrestle, they had characters but did not get bogged down in Soap-Opera style TV.

If trish stratus has worn a sporty high cut swimsuit or sports bikini with knee pads and boots do you think more men would have tuned in, maybe, would she have been sexualised in the public eye more, probably not due to the shear amount of Bikini shoots?

The fact is the women who wrestle need to loosen up, they of course need to keep their dignity, a bikini that has to be adjusted every 10 seconds is annoying anyway. Get your legs out, get high cut, get sexy and get wrestling.

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