The Glamour Girls
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The Glamour Girls were a female professional wrestling
tag team. The members were Judy Martin
and Leilani Kai
was trained by The Fabulous Moolah
in 1975 right after she finished high school at Lillian Ellison School of Professional Wrestling. It was in 1979, that Kai first began working with Judy Martin
, who at also trained at Moolah's school and would become her tag team partner. During this time, in addition to wrestling individually and as a tag team (including tours of Japan with the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
promotion), Kai and Martin worked behind the scenes as trainers at Moolah's school, where they (along with Joyce Grable
) oversaw training of women such as Wendi Richter
and Sherri Martel
.
from champions Velvet McIntyre and Desiree Petersen
in 1985 (although sources claim a match occurred between the two teams in August 1985 in Egypt). After touring on the independent circuit and Japan for a few years, Martin and Kai returned to the WWF in 1987, repackaged as the platinum haired The Glamour Girls and were managed by Jimmy Hart
. The duo appeared at the first Survivor Series
in 1987 as part of then champion Sherri Martel's team to face the Fabulous Moolah's team.
They spent much of 1988 feuding with the Jumping Bomb Angels
for the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship. The Jumping Bomb Angels defeated them for the championship at the first Royal Rumble
in 1988. Kai and Martin recaptured the title months later in Japan before the belts were abandoned.
While working for the WWF, the duo (who were experienced trainers) were often paired against rookies and younger, more inexperienced women (including Rockin' Robin, Baby Doll
, and Olympia Hartauer
) in try-out matches to help the WWF gauge their talent and potential.
promotion, where they held the Ladies Major League Wrestling Tag Team Championship. While in LMLW, they were managed by Abdullah Farouk, Jr. They competed as a tag team and also become contenders for the Ladies Major League Wrestling Championship.
In the fall 1991, Kai and Martin joined World Championship Wrestling
and feuded with Madusa
and Bambi
in singles matches. The women's division in WCW was phased out before they were given any opportunity to compete together as a tag team.
During this time they also competed in the Ladies Professional Wrestling Association
. They debuted under the new name, the Queen's Court, and were managed by Queen Christopher Love (and eventually Adnan Al-Kaissie
). They wrestled as both a tag team and in singles competition as top contenders to the LPWA Championship held by Susan Sexton
. After months of feuding reigning champions Team America (Misty Blue Simmes
and Heidi Lee Morgan
), they finally captured the LPWA Tag Team Championship. They feuded with teams such as Bad, Black, & Beautiful (Black Venus and Bad Girl), The New Team America (Misty Blue Simmes and Alison Royal), Locomotion (Reggie Bennett
and Cheryl Rusa), Wendi Richter and Rockin' Robin, and Bambi and Malia Hosaka
. At the only LPWA pay-per-view, LPWA Super Ladies Showdown, the Glamour Girls defended the LPWA Tag Team Championship against Bambi and Hosaka.
While working in LPWA, Kai and Martin were credited with helping to train and develop many of the rookies and younger talent, including Malia Hosaka and Terri Power
.
Ladies Professional Wrestling Association
World Wrestling Federation
Professional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
tag team. The members were Judy Martin
Judy Martin (wrestler)
Judy Hardee is a former female professional wrestler known as Judy Martin. Martin is a former WWF Women's Tag Team Champion. She held the title with partner Leilani Kai as The Glamour Girls...
and Leilani Kai
Leilani Kai
Patricia Schroeder , better known by her stage name Leilani Kai, is a semi-retired professional wrestler. She began training with The Fabulous Moolah right after finishing high school...
Early career and training
Leilani KaiLeilani Kai
Patricia Schroeder , better known by her stage name Leilani Kai, is a semi-retired professional wrestler. She began training with The Fabulous Moolah right after finishing high school...
was trained by The Fabulous Moolah
The Fabulous Moolah
Mary Lillian Ellison , better known by her ring name The Fabulous Moolah, was an American female professional wrestler. She began her career working with promoter Billy Wolfe and his wife, wrestler and trainer Mildred Burke, as well as working alongside professional wrestler "Nature Boy" Buddy...
in 1975 right after she finished high school at Lillian Ellison School of Professional Wrestling. It was in 1979, that Kai first began working with Judy Martin
Judy Martin (wrestler)
Judy Hardee is a former female professional wrestler known as Judy Martin. Martin is a former WWF Women's Tag Team Champion. She held the title with partner Leilani Kai as The Glamour Girls...
, who at also trained at Moolah's school and would become her tag team partner. During this time, in addition to wrestling individually and as a tag team (including tours of Japan with the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
, nicknamed Zenjo was a joshi puroresu promotion established in 1968 by Takashi Matsunaga and his brothers. The group held their first card on June 4 of that year...
promotion), Kai and Martin worked behind the scenes as trainers at Moolah's school, where they (along with Joyce Grable
Joyce Grable
Betty Wade-Murphy is a American former professional wrestler better known by her ring name Joyce Grable. She was the long-term tag team partner of Wendi Richter...
) oversaw training of women such as Wendi Richter
Wendi Richter
Wendi Richter is a retired American professional wrestler. She began her professional wrestling career in companies such as the National Wrestling Alliance, where she teamed with Joyce Grable, with whom she held the NWA Women's World Tag Team Championship twice. In the 1980s, she joined the World...
and Sherri Martel
Sherri Martel
Sherri Schrull was an American professional wrestler and manager, better known by her ring names, Sherri Martel and Sensational Sherri....
.
World Wrestling Federation
Kai and Martin competed together as a tag team in the World Wrestling Federation. They were awarded the WWF Women's Tag Team ChampionshipWWF Women's Tag Team Championship
The WWF Women's Tag Team Championship was a short-lived title in the World Wrestling Federation. When Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria joined the WWF in 1984, they were already the reigning NWA Women's World Tag Team Champions...
from champions Velvet McIntyre and Desiree Petersen
Desiree Petersen
Desiree Petersen is a professional wrestler. She was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and once held the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship.-Wrestling career:...
in 1985 (although sources claim a match occurred between the two teams in August 1985 in Egypt). After touring on the independent circuit and Japan for a few years, Martin and Kai returned to the WWF in 1987, repackaged as the platinum haired The Glamour Girls and were managed by Jimmy Hart
Jimmy Hart
James "Jimmy" Ray Hart is a professional wrestling manager, executive, composer, and musician currently signed with WWE. He is best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling under his nickname "The Mouth of the South." He has managed many professional...
. The duo appeared at the first Survivor Series
Survivor Series (1987)
Survivor Series was the first Survivor Series pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation . It took place on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1987 and was held at the Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio....
in 1987 as part of then champion Sherri Martel's team to face the Fabulous Moolah's team.
They spent much of 1988 feuding with the Jumping Bomb Angels
Jumping Bomb Angels
Jumping Bomb Angels were a female Japanese professional wrestling tag team. The members were Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki .-Japan:...
for the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship. The Jumping Bomb Angels defeated them for the championship at the first Royal Rumble
Royal Rumble (1988)
Royal Rumble was the first annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling event produced by the World Wrestling Federation . It took place on January 24, 1988 at the Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario...
in 1988. Kai and Martin recaptured the title months later in Japan before the belts were abandoned.
While working for the WWF, the duo (who were experienced trainers) were often paired against rookies and younger, more inexperienced women (including Rockin' Robin, Baby Doll
Nickla Roberts
Nickla Ann Roberts is an American semi-retired professional wrestler and valet, better known by her ring name, "The Perfect 10" Baby Doll...
, and Olympia Hartauer
Olympia Hartauer
Olympia Hartauer is retired American professional wrestler.-Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling:Hartauer began her wrestling career in 1986 as a competitor on the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling television series. She was one of three women that portrayed the character Corporal Kelly...
) in try-out matches to help the WWF gauge their talent and potential.
Later career
In 1990, the duo joined the Ladies Major League WrestlingLadies Major League Wrestling
Ladies Major League Wrestling was an all-female wrestling company that operated from 1989-1992. Their cards were promoted under the Wild Women of Wrestling name.-History:...
promotion, where they held the Ladies Major League Wrestling Tag Team Championship. While in LMLW, they were managed by Abdullah Farouk, Jr. They competed as a tag team and also become contenders for the Ladies Major League Wrestling Championship.
In the fall 1991, Kai and Martin joined World Championship Wrestling
World Championship Wrestling
World Championship Wrestling, Inc. was an American professional wrestling promotion which existed from 1988 to 2001. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, it began as a regional promotion affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance , named Jim Crockett Promotions until November 1988, when Ted Turner and...
and feuded with Madusa
Debra Miceli
Debrah Ann Miceli is a Monster truck driver and former professional wrestler. She is best known under her ring names Madusa or Alundra Blayze. Her early career was spent in the American Wrestling Association, where she held the AWA World Women's Championship one time...
and Bambi
Selina Majors
Selina Majors , better known by her stage name Bambi, is an American professional wrestler.-Early career:Majors debuted as a professional wrestler in 1986 working for David McLane. She competed in his nationally televised professional women's wrestling league, Powerful Women of Wrestling as Bambi...
in singles matches. The women's division in WCW was phased out before they were given any opportunity to compete together as a tag team.
During this time they also competed in the Ladies Professional Wrestling Association
Ladies Professional Wrestling Association
The Ladies Professional Wrestling Association was an all-female wrestling promotion which operated in the early 1990s . It was considered a successor to such women's promotions as Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling , but it differed in that, while GLOW slanted more toward WWF-style sports entertainment...
. They debuted under the new name, the Queen's Court, and were managed by Queen Christopher Love (and eventually Adnan Al-Kaissie
Adnan Al-Kaissie
Adnan Bin Abdulkareem Ahmed Alkaissy El Farthie , better known professionally as Adnan Al-Kaissie, is a former iraqi professional wrestler and a manager best known as Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissy, Billy White Wolf, or General Adnan...
). They wrestled as both a tag team and in singles competition as top contenders to the LPWA Championship held by Susan Sexton
Susan Sexton
Shanon Sexton, better known by her stage name Susan Sexton, is a former professional wrestler. She was born in Perth, Australia on 2 February.She was trained by Ali Musa the Turk.-Wrestling career:...
. After months of feuding reigning champions Team America (Misty Blue Simmes
Misty Blue Simmes
Diane Syms , better known by her ring name Misty Blue Simmes, is an American former professional wrestler.-Beginning:Simmes got into wrestling after learning to box and being part of a all-female boxing show...
and Heidi Lee Morgan
Heidi Lee Morgan
Heidi Lee Morgan the daughter of Lester Morgan, is a retired American professional wrestler who competed in the World Wrestling Federation, International World Class Championship Wrestling, Ladies Pro Wrestling Association, and National Wrestling Federation...
), they finally captured the LPWA Tag Team Championship. They feuded with teams such as Bad, Black, & Beautiful (Black Venus and Bad Girl), The New Team America (Misty Blue Simmes and Alison Royal), Locomotion (Reggie Bennett
Reggie Bennett
Reggie Bennett is an American former professional wrestler. She is best known for her work in joshi puroresu organizations such as All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling.-Professional wrestling career:...
and Cheryl Rusa), Wendi Richter and Rockin' Robin, and Bambi and Malia Hosaka
Malia Hosaka
Malia Hosaka is an American professional wrestler. She is a former NWA World Women's Champion.-Career:Malia Hosaka was trained by Killer Kowalski at the wrestling training camp run by Misty Blue Simmes...
. At the only LPWA pay-per-view, LPWA Super Ladies Showdown, the Glamour Girls defended the LPWA Tag Team Championship against Bambi and Hosaka.
While working in LPWA, Kai and Martin were credited with helping to train and develop many of the rookies and younger talent, including Malia Hosaka and Terri Power
Terri Poch
Terri Poch is an American bodybuilder and former professional wrestler, best known for her appearances with the World Wrestling Federation as Tori...
.
Retirement
Martin retired from professional wrestling in 1999, while Kai retired in 2004. The duo currently makes appearances at various wrestling conventions and reunions, mainly located on the east coast.In wrestling
- Finishing moves
- Judy Drop (Fireman's carry powerslam)
- PowerbombPowerbombA powerbomb is a professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted up and then slammed back-first down to the mat. The standard powerbomb sees an opponent first placed in a standing headscissors position...
- Big boot
- Diving splash
- Signature moves
- Diving crossbody
- Hair-pull snapmare
- ManagersManager (professional wrestling)In professional wrestling, a manager is a secondary character paired with a wrestler for a variety of reasons. The manager is often either a non-wrestler, an occasional wrestler, an older wrestler who has retired or is nearing retirement or, in some cases, a new wrestler who is breaking into the...
- Jimmy HartJimmy HartJames "Jimmy" Ray Hart is a professional wrestling manager, executive, composer, and musician currently signed with WWE. He is best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling under his nickname "The Mouth of the South." He has managed many professional...
- Adnan El KasseyAdnan Al-KaissieAdnan Bin Abdulkareem Ahmed Alkaissy El Farthie , better known professionally as Adnan Al-Kaissie, is a former iraqi professional wrestler and a manager best known as Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissy, Billy White Wolf, or General Adnan...
- The Fabulous MoolahThe Fabulous MoolahMary Lillian Ellison , better known by her ring name The Fabulous Moolah, was an American female professional wrestler. She began her career working with promoter Billy Wolfe and his wife, wrestler and trainer Mildred Burke, as well as working alongside professional wrestler "Nature Boy" Buddy...
- "Queen Christopher Love" (Bert Prentice)
- Abdullah Farouk, Jr.
- Jimmy Hart
Championships and accomplishments
Ladies Major League WrestlingLadies Major League Wrestling
Ladies Major League Wrestling was an all-female wrestling company that operated from 1989-1992. Their cards were promoted under the Wild Women of Wrestling name.-History:...
- LMLW Tag Team Championship (1 time)
Ladies Professional Wrestling Association
Ladies Professional Wrestling Association
The Ladies Professional Wrestling Association was an all-female wrestling promotion which operated in the early 1990s . It was considered a successor to such women's promotions as Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling , but it differed in that, while GLOW slanted more toward WWF-style sports entertainment...
- LPWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)
World Wrestling Federation
- WWF Women's Tag Team ChampionshipWWF Women's Tag Team ChampionshipThe WWF Women's Tag Team Championship was a short-lived title in the World Wrestling Federation. When Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria joined the WWF in 1984, they were already the reigning NWA Women's World Tag Team Champions...
(2 times)