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Age: 31
Location: Athens, GA
Describe your ringside style: T shirts of bands, wrestlers or other pop culture thing, skinny pants, jean jacket with Cesaro or X Files patch on the back, and flats.
How did you become a wrestling fan?
After living in Alabama during the Attitude Era, I had a lot of negative associations with wrestling, mostly based on the fans I knew and how they treated teen-female-bodied-punk-rock me. Even after meeting a collection of male feminists who like wrestling, including my current partner, I still had a mental block against it. Fast forward to 28, through a period where I studied ballet and restoration comedies: partner and I are sitting around unemployed after moving, and he binge watches CM Punk matches. I start to recognize how wrestling functions and see that it’s not all offensive, just mostly. What really sold me was going to a Chikara show in AL, and meeting people partner had stayed with touring with his band, and re-meeting people I knew from punk shows in Montgomery. I then realized there was a space in wrestling for me and my friends. I settled into that space and then branched out from there.
Fave wrestler:
Mayumi Ozaki
Fave Promotion:
DDT
Fave Move:
Surfboard
Fave Match:
Dream Tag Team:
Cesaro and Sami Zayn
If you had to choose your entrance theme, what would it be?
For my imagined vampire-Euro trash-incestuous mixed tag team at Monstrosity Championship Wrestling:
For my imagined New Orleans spooky lady gimmick, Rosie LeFanu:
For my imagined veg-anarcha-feminist gimmick
The wonderful Courtney from Wrestling With Makeup sent in a submission, check out her fierce fashions.
Name: Courtney Rose @ChicagoCRose
Age: 27
Location: Chicago
Describe your ringside style:
Hard Femme. I am nothing without baby doll dresses, leggings, docs and red lipstick. I started Wrestling With Makeup simply because I needed more ways to involve wrestling into my wardrobe aside from shirts. Even if no one else knows what I’m doing, I feel a little more badass inside.
How did you become a wrestling fan?
I was about 7 or 8 years old when I first remember watching WCW. My sister and I would stay with our uncle & grandmother after school until my parents could get off work, and my uncle loved wrestling. We would stay there Monday nights to watch Nitro, then he’d tape Raw for us to watch the next day or vice versa. We still have our first pieces of Wrestling memorabilia: mine was a DDP brawling buddy and my sister had a NWO Macho Man.
It’s nice that wrestling is a family thing in our house. Our uncle got us into it and remains a huge fan, my mom watches it semi-regularly and has hilarious opinions as a casual viewer and my dad used to dress up as wrestlers for Halloween to amuse us. My sister and I have a really great bond, we’re best friends, and a lot of that connection was built on our mutual love of performance, traveling, and watching men beat each other up at our feet.
Fave Wrestler:
Kenny Omega & Chris Hero
Fave Promotion:
It changes often, but right now I’m hugely into PWG and New Japan on repeat.
Fave Move:
Omega Driver, Cattle Mutilation, & One Winged Angel.
Fave Match:
Impossible question. I have a YouTube playlist of matches I watch because they’re amazing, and one of guilty pleasure matches that make my insides fill with glee. Here are some:
I have a lot of issues with committing to one choice.
Dream Tag Team:
Like I said, trouble making decisions.
If you had to choose your entrance theme, what would it be?
If I had my way, Pony by Ginuwine would play every time I enter a room.
Also I have a life goal of creating a stable that enters the ring to “Ruff Ryders Anthem” by DMX, entirely dressed as Teddy Roosevelt.
But if we’re serious:
In today’s “Who’s That Girl?” we focus on another fan of pro graps and their awesome fashion sense. This time it’s our very own Shelly Deathlock!
Name: Shelly Deathlock
Age: Play Button (see that’s what WWE made the 31 in “Wrestlemania 31” into because 31 sounds like it’s too old HEY WAIT A DAMN MINUTE.)
Location: Connecticut
Describe your ringside style: Early to mid 90’s heavy metal.
How did you become a wrestling fan?
I turned on Raw one night in 1993. Yokozuna was delivering several Banzai drops to Crush and Tatanka wasn’t coming out to help him. I was AMAZED. Slippery slope from there, and I began watching all the time. It’s totally a prototypical scene for my wrestling fandom: Good guy is getting murdered by bad guy; good guys friend… isn’t helping? How good can good guys be, then? Good guys aren’t very good. So, murdered good guy joins bad guys, gets to hang out with Mr. Fuji and beat the shit out of Randy Savage. Life lessons.
Fave Wrestler: Shinsuke Nakamura, King of Strong Style and saviour of professional wrestling.
Fave Promotion: NJPW
Fave Move: The… @indiandeathlock. 😉
Fave Match: This isn’t even difficult. Nakamura vs. Ibushi at Wrestle Kingdom 9 this year made most other matches I’ve seen look like they weren’t pro wrestling at all, but some sad shadowy version of it. That match was amazing.
Before that, it was probably Bret vs. Owen at WM X & also their Summerslam ‘94 cage match. I was super invested in those as a baby Owen Hart fan.
Dream Tag Team: Sasha Banks & Kazuchika Okada. $$$$$$$
If you had to choose your own entrance theme, what would it be?
But then I’d have to also literally bleed black somehow to keep it kayfabe. I’m working on it.
In this week’s fan edition of “Who’s That Girl” we are speaking with this lovely cat from Nashville that I, AV Christensen, met during a trip I took down there in the winter. She was my Lyft driver and got really excited when she saw my profile photo was me executing a flawless Boston Cream finisher and asked if I was truly “a bad ass lady wrestler”.
Let’s check in with Audrey and her obvious obsession with a certain faction within the dubya dubya eeee.
Name: Audrey Killawatts (a.k.a Khaos Reigns)
Age: 21
Location: Nashville, TN
Describe your ringside style: Chaotic Neutral
How did you become a wrestling fan? My best friend introduced me.
Fave Wrestler: A toss up between Dean Ambrose and Dolph Ziggler.
Fave Promo Cut: That’s a tough one, I really loved Dean’s “Ice Bucket Challenge” on Rollins.
Fave Move: Scorpion Crosslock
Fave Match: Um, dude, I have no idea, there are seriously too many. But Rollins v Ambrose early on in the break up of the shield. Ambrose looked so torn over having to take out Rollins. Brilliant.
Dream Tag Team: I miss the Shield…
If you had to choose your own entrance theme, what would it be?
Huge thanks to Audrey for taking part! Can’t follow her on social media since she’s not a twitter gal. But if you’re ever in Nashville she’ll cut your hair, or maybe drive you around if you order something on Lyft!
Each week, we aim to highlight some of the best women in wrestling and that includes the fans too.
Kicking off the Fan Edition of “Who’s That Girl?” is @grapplekitty
Name: Kitty
Age: 25
Location: New York City
Describe your ringside style: Colourful, casual, and comfortable. I rarely wear t-shirts in public, as I am more of a blouse and sweater person. I actually wore a floral blouse to a wrestling show in 2012. I own only three wrestling related shirts. I just ruined my Sami Zayn shirt, and my other shirt is promotion-specific, so this was my only option for the last wrestling show I attended.
How did you become a wrestling fan?: I grew up watching wrestling, specifically WWE, with my dad. I think I started watching regularly in 1999, with my favourites being Kane, Chris Jericho and the Hardy Boyz. I began seeking out independent and international wrestling in 2011.
Fave Wrestler: Sami Zayn
Fave Promotion: PWG
Fave Move: Chaos Theory
Fave Match: ever? That’s really hard. I think it’s Edge and Christian vs the Hardy Boyz in a ladder match at No Mercy 1999, just because I’ve seen it so many times.
Dream Tag Team: Sasha Banks and Bull Nakano. They’ll look amazing while smashing faces in.
If you had to choose your own entrance theme, what would it be?
Something goofy. Probably the Miley Cyrus/Notorious B.I.G mashup, Party and Bullshit in the USA.
If you’d like to be featured in our fan edition, please email us (femmezuigiri@gmail.com) with 1 or 2 photos of you to be included in the article and we’ll send over a short questionnaire! It doesn’t have to be wrestling tees, it’s whatever you love to wear to shows!