The Pro Wrestling EVE Thread (UK)

[mrblacksheep]

I wish Sjodin was still active, She was my absolute favorite.

[freaky]

We have a new EVE Champion... but it came at a big cost.



More here: ringbellesonline.com/2014/11/30/rhia-oreilly-becomes-pro-wrestling-eve-champion/

[themib]

Back from the... well, not quite dead, but certainly in a long slumber...

Pro Wrestling EVE will have its first standalone show in nearly three years on March 20th, and it will be the first ever all-women's professional wrestling show to be held in London!

"Let's Make History!" will be at Cargo in Shoreditch, a really trendy part of London. What makes this significant other than it being EVE's first show in a long time, and the first London show is that women's wrestling was only legalised in London in 1987. There's been women's matches in the capital since then, of course, but never a full women's show... until March 20th.

EVE are selling tickets from their website (http://www.evewrestling.com), and they've been selling pretty well since going on sale today. Really hope this does well so that this becomes a regular thing for London.

[storydove]

Great to hear! I hope I can stream it or that I can get it on demand soon after.

Also I never knew about women's wrestling being outlawed in london, that's pretty interesting. Wrestling did really become global after Wrestlemania 3, I wonder if that had anything to do with the laws changing.

[themib]

Jan 6, 2016 16:17:49 GMT -6 storydove said:

Great to hear! I hope I can stream it or that I can get it on demand soon after.

Also I never knew about women's wrestling being outlawed in london, that's pretty interesting. Wrestling did really become global after Wrestlemania 3, I wonder if that had anything to do with the laws changing.

Probably more relentless campaigning. Wrestling in the UK was pretty violent and not regulated well in the early part of the 20th Century, and it was banned completely in London in the 1930s. The ban was lifted in the 1950s when new regulations were drawn up, but only men were allowed to wrestle in London.

It was after challenges on the grounds of Equal Opportunities that the ban was partially lifted for a bout in Wimbledon in 1979, but once the match took place, government authorities appealed, and the ban was reapplied. It took the abolition of the Greater London Council in the mid-1980s before the ban on women's wrestling was finally lifted.

www.oocities.org/wrestlingfun/histor1.htm

[storydove]

Very cool, thanks for the link.