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Inspiration for Netflix's GLOW came from a real series that aired in the 1980s called Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, but while the show is grounded in real events, much of the story is fictional. Casting calls were held throughout California, drawing the attention of hundreds of struggling actresses eager for their break into the entertainment industry. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.

This article has an estimated read time of 7 minutes. A scripted comedy-drama, it tells the fictional story of a 1980s professional wrestling promotion that is based on the actual Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Each wrestler was also given her own moniker, ones that played off their personalities or ethnicities. GLOW is a TV series that premiered on Netflix in 2017.

Watching the show, it’s easy to see why so many wrestlers were down to play little roles in GLOW’s premiere season; at its core, it gets what makes the combination of wacky storylines and compelling physical feats so compelling to people, even if it’s not “real” fighting. “GLOW was character-driven, making it much more than a wrestling company,” Godiva told Harold Williams in 2013. Fiji. Netflix's GLOW is fictional, yes, but it's based on both a real television program — GLOW: The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling — and inspired by real characters. Real name: Emily taking out 11 other wrestlers with his penis, both her brothers are played by real wrestlers. Once a month at the Resistance Gallery in Bethnal Green a rosta of approximately 12 female wrestlers step into the 16ft by 16ft wrestling ring to chokeslam, dropkick and maybe even moonsault one another; all in the name of entertainment – and feminism. Now, at long last, the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling are making a comeback — but are there real wrestlers on GLOW? In a black vest, with a shock of neon pink hair, Emily Read gets the crowd going at an EVE pro wrestling evening: “Are we ready to have a good time? ... and disable advertisements! Are we ready for some wrestling?” Emily, 32, co-founded EVE in 2009 with her then partner, now-husband, Dann, who she met on the promoting circuit. The glamorous Lisa Moretti became big-haired Tina Ferrari, Amazonian Dawn Maestas the British-accented Godiva, wrestling legend Emily Dole the terrifying Mt. Each episode started out with a battle rap, the wrestlers taunting one another with trash talk, followed by fights in the ring interspersed with hammy comedy sketches. But show runners Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, alongside Orange Is the New Black creator Jenji Kohan as an executive producer, clearly drew a lot of inspiration from the original GLOW. The show often uses real professional wrestlers when casting in-show professional wrestlers, like Episode 1 trainer Salty "The Sack" Jackson, who is played by Johnny Mundo. For a generation of kids in Eighties America, Saturday morning cartoons were followed up by the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a neon-nightmare proto-WWE variety show that combined colourful spandex, comedy skits and moaning, groaning girl-on-girl fights straight out of a Roger Corman movie. One, recently recapped on Uproxx, saw wrestler Daisy tricked into preparing for a blind date with Donald Trump. It was produced in Las Vegas and featured staged wrestling matches between women, most of whom were actresses and models with no prior experience in wrestling. The actual GLOW television show ran from 1986–1990. Riklis sparked to McLane and Cimber’s concept of a female wrestling show, though rumours have long persisted that he was more intrigued by the possibility of using the show as a tax write-off, particularly as he believed GLOW had little chance of success. The auditionees were eventually whittled down to 12, who were then put through their paces by Mexican wrestling legend Mando Guerrero. As you watch Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin put each other in headlocks in this show this weekend, you might be wondering to yourself, "Did this all really happen?". One former GLOW star recalled that Guerrero felt the women weren't taking the show seriously on the first day of training, and so put a woman in a headlock and made her cry. However, there is one prominent member of the Netflix series who’s spent plenty of time in the ring: Kia Stevens, who plays Tamee, known later in the season by her wrestling persona of “Welfare Queen.” Stevens first got her start on the Japanese wrestling circuit under the pseudonym “Amazing Kong,” which was later changed to “Awesome Kong” when she appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA); she’s also appeared in the WWE as “Karma.”, But although Kia Stevens is the only one of the girls with any wrestling experience, she’s not the only person on the show with some WWE cred to her name. As GLOW grew in popularity, over 70 wrestlers passed through its hallowed ring ropes, while the show continued to build up its own inner mythology. “The camp and the character were the most important elements. Yes, in the sense that a women's wrestling program called the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW for short) really did exist in the '80s. All Rights Reserved. The ones that remained were asked to demonstrate some of their skills, particularly if they were adept at accents or impressions. Sadly, not too many members of the cast started out in wrestling, which is actually pretty true to the series it was inspired by. “[It] was a ‘sexy’ show, but it wasn't a ‘sex’ show,” she continued. Fiji. Trust me, it’s a slippery slope from this to watching WWE SummerSlam every year.

Now, at long last, the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling are making a comeback — but are there real wrestlers on GLOW? 2020 Bustle Digital Group. This sometimes resulted in serious injury, particularly an infamous moment in which wrestler Susie Spirit tore out her elbow tendon on live TV.

He now wrestles with Lucha Underground under the name “Johnny Mundo.”.

Then there’s Carmen’s wrestling-obsessed family; both her brothers are played by real wrestlers, whom Outkick The Coverage identify as Carly “Carlito” Colón Jr. (who actually does come from a legacy family, as his father and brother are also wrestlers), and George Murdoch, also known as Brodus Clay. Though there's no rap in the Netflix show (yet), the writers do allude to the tradition in Episode 3, when each of the girls records their own video promo.

So here's a few things about it you should know about the real-life GLOW before you start your binge-watch. All rights reserved. It was produced in Las Vegas and featured staged wrestling... 2.

Embed Share. She meets a wrestler who goes by the name Steel Horse and his nemesis Mr. By Saryn Chorney and Reporting By Scott Huver. Knowingly camp and unexpectedly trailblazing, its reputation as a cult relic of yesteryear recognised by few outside of its niche fanbase was smashed wide open in 2017 with the launch of GLOW, a Netflix comedy-drama from the creator of Orange Is the New Black. “The women portrayed on GLOW were independent and empowered. Not by a long shot. The film helped inspire show runner Liz Flahive to create the new Netflix series. Ultimately, GLOW is a love-letter to wrestling—which makes it the perfect show to get your friends into the pastime. Meanwhile, his heel in the episode, Mr. The cast were also forced by producers to inhabit their roles 24/7, meaning few ever knew one another’s real names, and any outside-the-ring contact between the show’s good girls and bad girls was strictly prohibited. In real life, Stevens went by Awesome Kong in TNA and Kharma in the WWE. “I remember him telling me that ‘20 years from now when you’ve raised your family you will one day look back and realize that you had an adventure of a lifetime.’”. There was no male image on GLOW, no hunky muscle guys leading us to the ring or drying our delicate tears.”. Under the name Queen Kong, Deanna once wrestled a bear when she couldn’t find any women to compete against. His films mostly feature overly-sexualized blonde women. It's a comedy-drama starring Alison Brie, Marc Maron, and Betty Gilpin in the not-so-glamorous world of women's professional wrestling.

Ruth Wilder (Brie), Debbie Eagan (Gilpin), and Sam Sylvia (Maron) were never real people, and the drama between the characters is all fabricated. Kia Stevens has a regular role on GLOW as Tamee, whose stage name "Welfare Queen" plays on the offensive stereotypes often included in the original Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Britney Young, who plays Carmen "Machu Picchu" Wade, based her character on a real gentle giant, original GLOW wrestler Emily "Mountain Fiji" Dole. Investment arrived in the form of Matt Cimber, a notoriously, ahem, "unique" film director best known for Razzie-primed disasters like Butterfly, the video nastie The Witch Who Came from the Sea, and several Blaxploitation epics in the Seventies. For many of the women, GLOW proved to be the peak of their respective time in Hollywood, the acting careers many signed on in order to enhance failing to materialise. In addition to wrestling and competing in roller derby, Deanna was working as an actress and a dominatrix when she … While some would continue to work in the wrestling industry, notably Lisa Moretti, who later became Ivory for the WWE, others found success outside of the entertainment industry, in real estate, personal training or as members of the Lutheran church. To me, GLOW more closely resembled Hee Haw or Laugh-in from the Seventies more than it did any wrestling show.

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