Georgia brown wrestler. Vicelands docu series dark side of the ring is now highlighting that tension between the fabricated story lines of pro wrestling and what actually happened behind the scenes. With a decades long tradition of obscuring backstage realities in favor of building mythic legends the pro wrestling industry continues to grapple with the alleged shady behavior of some of its more iconic stars. She made her in ring debut for world class championship wrestling in 1988 under the name sweet georgia brown.
Sweet georgia brown is a female professional wrestler. In wrestling finishers and signature moves. Mary lillian ellison july 22 1923 november 2 2007 was an american professional wrestler better known by her ring name the fabulous moolah.
She began her career working with promoter billy wolfe and his wife wrestler and trainer mildred burke as well as working alongside professional wrestler nature boy buddy rogersshe won the nwa world womens championship in 1956 and was the. After training under legendary heel manager general skandor akbar she debuted for world class championship wrestling as sweet georgia brown. Sweet georgia brown was moolahs first african american student in her school and moolah and lee had high hopes for the emerging fad in pro wrestling negro women wrestlers.