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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (March 28, 1999):
FIGHTING FEMALES magazine ships to newstands!
The Spring 1999 issue of Fighting Females magazine (published
quarterly by
Opal Publishing in New York) shipped to newsstand distributors
earlier this
week.
It should be appearing on the newsstands by April 1st. Look
for an
outstanding photo story on Vancouver's Marianna Komlos. Marianna,
the cover
girl on Fighting Females Winter 1998 issue, is currently in the
United
States pursuing her entertainment career opportunities and has
been
interviewed by the World Wrestling Federation.
Vancouver writer K. Harris is a regular contributor to Fighting
Females
magazine. Below are articles which have appeared in previous issues.
This is the front cover of the Fighting Females Winter 1998 issue which features Marianna.
Vancouver writer K. Harris is a regular contributor to Fighting
Females
magazine. Below are articles which have appeared in previous issues.
Fox's on the Road!
By K. Harris (Copyright 1998) - FIGHTING FEMALES (Winter 1998)
The Summer of '98 will be remembered by Western Canada fans
of fighting
females as hot!
Ravishing blondes at ringside and grappling amazons scorched
photographers'
film, while sizzling stories from inside the fascinating world
of female
combat sports branded newsprint all summer long.
British Columbia's pretty round card girl, Nikkita Fox, and
"The Fox!
Report" were on the road, meeting some of the best female
talent in the
business. They captured an exclusive interview with Helena Lines
in
Vancouver at Gerry Gionco's Agrodome Annihilation boxing card.
Helena is from Vancouver Island. She's a former fashion model,
now focused
on producing combat sports events, and has 4 years of kickboxing
experience. This ravishing blonde is the Vice President of Universal
Warriors Fighting Championship Inc. and a business partner of
fight promoter
Don Arnott.
Don is the developer of the USA vs The World Universal Warriors,
a unique
fighting event featuring the toughest military male and female
commandos in
the world. In Canada, Don concepted Women's Tag Team Boxing (captured
on the
best-selling video "Thunder On The Island -- Ladies Night
at the Fights").
Helena and Don produced the USA vs World "Commando Knockout
Challenge II" on
August 21st at Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, North Carolina
(next to Fort
Bragg). The event was a topnotch production and appeared on international
pay-per-view and closed circuit television.
The women's fight was a show-stopper! In fact, it aired twice
during the 2 &
1/2 hour telecast.
Team USA competitor, LCPL Ana-Rosa Bondarchuck -- an attractive
USMC combat
engineer with expertise in hand-to-hand combat, martial arts and
boxing --
lost a hard fought 3 round boxing match by split decision to Natasha
Larionova of the Russian KGB Special Forces.
Larionova, who represented the World Team, is a tall, beautiful
blonde
fighting machine. She's the current Russian Female Champion in
Unarmed
Combat and the European and Russian Women's Savate Champion. Keep
your eyes
on pay-per-view schedules in November for the rematch between
Ana-Rosa and
Natasha on "Commando Knockout Challenge III." The website
is:
http://usavsworld.com
In British Columbia, the women of Extreme Canadian Championship
Wrestling
(ECCW) continued to feud all over the province in July and August.
At press time, Lorena "The Blonde Bombshell" and
Gruesome Annie were
scheduled to fight in a cage match. Check out the ECCW website
at:
http://www.ECCW.com.
J.P. Erickson's "Women's Gladiator Trials" video,
shot in Vancouver, is now
in worldwide release. Canadian Women's Heavyweight Bodybuilding
Champion,
Sheila Burgess (who is contemplating pro wrestling), is featured
in
competition footage. She also debuts in a very titillating, bodybuilding
video titled "Amazon Gladiator." Write J.P. for details
at: IAL Ltd.
(Attention: NS), 385-1755 Robson Street, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
V6G 3B7.
On August 22nd, Nevada pro boxer Hannah Fox defeated B.C.'s
Diana Dutra by
an unanimous 6 round decision in Las Vegas.
Gorgeous entertainer and actress Jerica Fox has completed her
Canadian tour
dates and returned to Las Vegas. Jerica has appeared in GK Productions'
videos produced and marketed by multi-talented lady wrestler,
actress and
comedy entertainer, Charli "Golden Katt" Haynes. Drop
Charli a note at Suite
#55 - 5546 Lindley Avenue, Encino, CA 91316 and request her video
catalog
and the list of Jerica's appearances.
Meet KC Houston ... a street fightin' lady!
By K. Harris (Copyright 1998) - FIGHTING FEMALES (Winter 1998)
Alberta, Canada is like Texas. Vast wheatfields and cattle
ranches mixed
with pipelines, pick-up trucks and wildcatters. Summer nights
are hot. And
they get a heck of a lot hotter when there's an all-out street
fight between
two women.
Meet pro wrestler KC Houston, a powerful Dutch redhead who
hails from
Edmonton, Alberta. KC stands 5'9", weighs 140 pounds and
just loves to
street fight. These days, her best scraps are with arch rival
Rhonda Sing.
Rhonda, with a global reputation as the notorious Monster Ripper,
is one of
the most experienced and roughest woman wrestlers in the business.
Last August, she crossed paths with KC at a Can Am Wrestling
Promotion card
in Edmonton. A wicked street fight erupted. Nothing was settled
and the
rivalry between these two wildcats still rages across the heartland
of
Western Canada. They have been at each other for a long time --
ever since
they were tag team partners for Stampede Wrestling in Calgary
during the
late 1980's.
KC's passion for wrestling stems back to her teens.
Flashback to the early 1980's, when four of lady wrestling's
finest were on
tour capturing headlines in Wrestling Revue and stealing the hearts
of fans.
The tour wound through Western Canada, picking up momentum
as The Dallas
Cowgirls, Wendi Richter and Joyce Grable, clawed their bad girl
reputations
on a vivacious Irish redhead and a radiant Indian princess.
By the time the foursome arrived in Edmonton, female tempers
were flaming.
The women fought at the Kinsmen Fieldhouse and KC was there, sitting
at
ringside, absolutely wide-eyed.
Watching Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria battle Richter
and Grable in
wild, no-holds-barred tag team match that night stirred a passion
in KC she
had never known before. She was just 17 years old, still in high
school, and
it was the very first time she had ever seen women wrestlers in
action.
KC remembers, "I was magnetized by the image of those
women in the ring. It
was the way they moved, the way they handled themselves. I thought,
wow --
that would really be something to do!" She did. A year later.
KC talked Bob Bulat, of Edmonton's ICWA, into training her.
She made her pro
debut on a ICWA card and later became the women's champion, going
up against
local girls, Jessie Powers and Princess Brittany. She moved on
to Stampede
Wrestling and managed Karachi Vice. When Stampede imported 3 of
the best
Japanese girls in the world, Devil Masami, Mika Komatsu and Rhonda
Sing, KC
was asked to wrestle as Sing's tag team partner. She seized the
opportunity.
KC recalls, "Those matches remain my toughest. The Japanese
girls were
incredible wrestlers. They had a totally different, fast-paced
style, unlike
the way I was trained. I had to learn all over again. My first
few matches
were horrible. I lost so much hair and I was black and blue. But,
I stuck
with it. My partner, Rhonda Sing, gave me a lot of advice and
encouragement."
But when KC and Rhonda eventually disagreed, the Japanese girls
moved on and
a new challenger arrived on the Calgary scene -- blonde bombshell
Desiree
Peterson. Her battles with KC are classics in Alberta's lady wrestling
history.
In 1996, the heat was back on between KC and Rhonda. This time
in South
Africa.
Rhonda had made waves in the WWF as Big Bertha and was the
former women's
champion. She was a headline item in Johannesburg. South African
promoters
were eager to stage an international women's challenge for the
big girl. KC
took the call and booked on!
KC explains, "Rhonda is very tough. We went through a
lot of tables and
chairs on that tour. The fans loved it! They were in awe of Rhonda's
size
(120 kg.). Seeing a little redhead like me take her on and really
go at it,
fighting in and out of the ring, absolutely thrilled them. We
became the
main event attraction and made history as South Africa's first-ever
mixed
tag bout at Wembley Indoor Arena on June 14th."
Two years later, on the Fourth of July, 1998, fireworks exploded
again
between KC and Rhonda. This time the occasion was a title match
at the
Edmonton Agricom.
After a see-saw war, KC knocked Sing off balance, school-boyed
her for the 3
count and scooped the belt. The big girl was outraged! She had
just lost a
title she had owned for years -- the W.W.W. Wrestling Association
Women's
Championship. KC was ecstatic! Rhonda went after her all summer
long.
KC still has the belt. And, she'll continue defending it against
Sing and
any other woman who wants a crack at it.
Her favorite moves are the snap suplex, power bombs and atomic
back
breakers. She enjoys all types of matches, especially street fights,
and
loves to travel.
Looking ahead, KC Houston explains, "I want to wrestle
for more promotions
throughout the world, to prove myself as a tough competitor and
eventually
be regarded as the woman wrestler that others are compared to.
I'm single,
motivated and have the drive to excel!"
Watch for KC Houston -- she's making her move. Write her at:
Nitesho Publishing
Suite 214
2496 East Hastings Street
Vancouver, B.C.
Canada V5K 1Z1
Telephone: (604) 669-7797
Ladies Wrestling and the Internet!
By K. Harris (Copyright 1999) - FIGHTING FEMALES (Spring 1999)
Fighting female action on Canada's West Coast closed out 1998
with several
pretty newcomers rising through the ranks. And, the Internet offered
interesting developments.
Street fighting pro lady wrestler KC Houston continued to blow
through the
competition in Western Canada like a Texas tornado. Her wars with
bad girl
Rhonda Sing in Edmonton, Alberta scored another title belt for
the vivacious
redhead. By press time for this edition of Fighting Females, the
count was 2
championship belts for KC and 0 for Rhonda. KC's scraps have also
lured lady
wrestlers Vikki Star and Desiree Peterson back into the Alberta
picture.
KC Houston's publicity splash in the Winter 98 issue of Fighting
Females
caught the eye of American promoter Randy Powell (Special Events
Promotions). Randy subsequently profiled KC in his LadySports
magazine and
invited her to wrestle in North Carolina.
"The Fox! Report" was in Las Vegas in November. A
highlight of the road trip
was meeting redheaded siren Laura Kimberly at COMDEX, the world's
largest
computer technology convention. Laura is a gorgeous glamour model
based in
Los Angeles and a close friend of sensational wrestling babe,
Hollywood.
Laura is also acquainted with several of Southern California's
women
wrestlers. Web surfers can scoot over to Laura's new website at
www.laurakimberly.com and tune in to her latest showbiz activities and chat
about her friends who love to fight.
The Internet website www.stonecold.com operated by StoneCold
Productions of
Vancouver was sold to Titan Sports Inc. of Stamford, Connecticut
in October.
Titan, producer the World Wrestling Federation, bought the Internet
domain
to launch a website solely devoted to its superstar, Stone Cold
Steve
Austin.
Nitesho Publishing's new website www.nitesho.com replaces the old
www.stonecold.com site which was profiled in the Winter 96 edition
of
Fighting Females magazine.
The original www.stonecold.com website was initiated in 1995 to market a
boxing video Tough Guy / Tough Girl "Knockout Challenge" produced in Vancouver.
In those early days, there were only a handful of Internet sites devoted
female combat sports. Joan Wise had a titillating site
flying as
"greeneyes.com."
David of FoxFax launched a wonderful
ride down the cyber
highway
from America's East Coast and a mountain man in Tennessee
was making
some noise in cyberspace by integrating technology's latest whizbangs
into
his women's wrestling website. Now, in 1999, these sites share
the road with
a couple of hundred websites which feature female combat sports
photos,
news, services and products.
Popular wrestler and bodybuilder Kasie Cavanaugh (www.KasiesConnection.com)
flew into
Vancouver last Fall and granted Fighting Females writer J.P. Erickson
an exclusive
interview and photo session. Check the photo content on
www.athleticwomen.com -- a comprehensive website devoted to muscular
women
and fighting females which also features J.P.'s new on-line publication.
In other news, Dave Jackson of Jackpin Productions is presenting
his
Women's Wrestling Convention in San Diego again. The dates are
April 23 -
25, 1999. Last year's show was a big hit with the fans, women
wrestlers and
vendors. The Internet address is www.jackpin.com for WWC 99 information.
Good looking women are rumbling once again at the roller rink.
Last October,
The Nashville Network announced that a new weekly series, "Roller
Jam", was
to premiere in January. The show is a take-off on roller derby
but the
skaters wear in-line skates instead of roller skates. Wow!
California's blonde wrestling sensation, Hollywood, has launched her
new website at: www.wrestlingbabe.com -- check it out!
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