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Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, also known as GLOW or G.L.O.W., was a professional wrestling promotion for women, began in 1986 (the pilot was filmed in December of 1985) and continued in various forms after it left television. Colorful characters, beautiful women, and over-the-top comedy sketches were integral to the series' success. Most of the performers were actresses or porn stars hoping to get in to show business through sexy wrestling. One performer, Palestina, aka Las Vegas native Janeen Jewett, went on to POWW, competed briefly in the AWA then became a singer in England. A syndicated G.L.O.W. show was produced for approximately five seasons from the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. It differed from Vince McMahon's WWF/E in that they had actual seasons where some wrestlers were dropped, changed, or added before the new season began. It was not a promotion with roll-in and roll-out during the season. G.L.O.W is still in existence, though not associated in any way with David B. McLane, the promoter who started the show. It was revived by the Hotel Riviera, where it was originally filmed, in 2001. David McLane also was behind two subsequent women's wrestling leagues Powerful Women of Wrestling (1987) and Women of Wrestling (2000). Johnny C (last name unknown) promoted a similar show.
Wrestlers G.L.O.W. was originally created as an aftermath of Jackie Stallone's physical fitness gym for women only, Barbarella's. She created, promoted and trained the girls for the entire running of the program. Jackie Stallone (Sylvester Stallone's mother) was the figurehead owner and manager of the Good Girls, and Aunt Kitty (Kitty Burke) was the manager for the Bad Girls. Steve Blance was the senior referee in the first two seasons before becoming GLOW's "commissioner" at the end of season two. He was always the recipent of a GLOW Girl beatdown. Each of the G.L.O.W. performers had her own rap song. It was shown on videotape prior to that wrestler's match. Similar to other wrestling promotions' use of wrestler-specific entrance themes, this gimmick may have been influenced by the Chicago Bears' "Super Bowl Shuffle." | ||||||||
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