{"id":5263,"date":"2014-01-21T17:04:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T00:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5263"},"modified":"2014-01-23T19:53:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T02:53:52","slug":"the-great-mae-young-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/21\/the-great-mae-young-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Mae Young Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Mae Young, Unladylike Wrestler Who Loved to Be Hated, Dies at 90<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0WILLIAM YARDLEY<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mae Young \u2014 make that the Great Mae Young \u2014 who pulled hair and took cheap shots, who preferred actually fighting to pretending, who was, by her own account and that of many other female wrestlers, the greatest and dirtiest of them all, died on Tuesday in Columbia, S.C. She was 90, and her last round in the ring was in 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe just was a rough, tough broad,\u201d Ella Waldek, another early wrestler, who died last year, once put it.<\/p>\n

Stories of her fierceness followed Ms. Young into her first professional match, in 1939. She had learned to wrestle with boys on her high school team in Oklahoma, and played football with them, too.<\/p>\n

In professional wrestling, there are baby faces and heels, and she never doubted which one she would be.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnybody can be a baby face, what we call a clean wrestler,\u201d she said in\u201cLipstick & Dynamite: The First Ladies of Wrestling,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0a 2004 documentary. \u201cThey don\u2019t have to do nothing. It\u2019s the heel that carries the whole show. I\u2019ve always been a heel, and I wouldn\u2019t be anything else but.\u201d<\/p>\n

[ click to read full article at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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