As someone who has been creating web pages since the very early days, I have seen many occasions where content has to be censored or sanitized before being posted on an official site, this is where the fansites come in and do a fantastic job of “telling it how it is” or at least how they view it and in the fan’s own words.

These days, it’s very easy for even non-technical fans to create a blog and start sharing their thoughts with the world.  It’s the sites that go the extra mile, however that really stand out from the pack and show their true dedication and passion.  To those sites and hard working administrators, I want to say THANK YOU!  We all greatly appreciate your support and efforts, it is truly inspiring to see the time spent developing and maintaining these sites.

Here is a short list of some of our favorites that we check out on a regular basis and suggest you do as well.

Melissa-Anderson.Org | The OFFICIAL Fansite for Melissa anderson aka TNA’s “Future Legend” Alissa Flash

Diva Dirt >> The Women’s Wrestling Bible

Christy Hemme #1 Fan Site

A huge congratulations goes out to Dave Prazak and the team at SHIMMER Women Athletes as they enter their fourth year of providing quality female matches and showcasing women wrestlers as pure athletes.  All of us at Female Fight League and ChickFight have the highest respect for Dave and know how much hard work and dedication he has put into Shimmer.

Our sister site, ClickWrestle is a proud sponsor and supporter of every Shimmer show from the beginning and look forward to continuing to sponsor upcoming Shimmer events.  All Shimmer matches available for immediate downloading and viewing on the Shimmer Channel.

SHIMMER – WOMEN ATHLETES returns to live action on Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at the Berwyn Eagles Club (6309 26th Street) in Berwyn, IL, just outside Chicago. Bell time is 2pm. Doors open at 1pm. This event will celebrate SHIMMER’s 4th Anniversary, as Volumes 27 & 28 of the SHIMMER DVD series will be filmed during the course of the event.

Congratulations Dave, you deserve it!

Once again, the TNA Knockouts steal the show!  The Alissa Flash & Traci Brooks vs. Taylor Wilde & Sarita segment scored a 1.32 rating on TNA iMPACT! last week, the highest rated segment of the two-hour show.  Here are the breakdown on the ratings of the August 6th show.

Opening Promo – 1.01
Young Vs. Daniels – 1.14
Beer Money/Team 3D interview, start of 8 Man Tag – 1.17
The Riot! – 1.23
Wilde/Sarita Vs. Flash/Brooks – 1.32
AJ Styles, Hernandez, Homicide interview – 1.15
Morgan Vs. AJ match, Abyss promo – 1.17
Sting Vs. Magnus + aftermath – 1.20

Congratulations to Alissa and the rest of the TNA Knockouts, you deserve it!

The wrestling world has been buzzing since last Thursday night when two incredible females made their debut on TNA iMPACT! on Spike TV.

“The Future Legend” Alissa Flash (Cheerleader Melissa) took on Sarita (Sarah Stock) in what has been called a phenomenal match by wrestling fans around the world.  The match scored a fantastic 1.18 rating with over 1.5 million viewers, coming in the second most-viewed segment of the night.

Here are just some of the reactions to the match.

• Spike TV named Alissa Flash vs. Sarita the official “iMPACT Match of the Night”
• A clip of the match finish has already had over 32,000 views on YouTube’s official TNA Channel
• The official Alissa Flash Twitter account (twitter.com/alissaflashTNA) already has over 1,200 followers
• Alissa Flash’s debut was named the #1 moment of the week by Diva-Dirt.com

All of us at Female Fight League are extremely proud of the performances by both talented wrestlers.  Watch the compete match below.

The latest edition is online now at the new site: www.fightingfemales.co.uk Edition Five has a valets special including interviews with Tammy ‘Sunny’ Sytch, ‘The Queen of Extreme’ Francine and Lizzy Valentine plus a special tribute to Miss Elizabeth six years after her death.

Other interviews in this edition are Melissa Coates, Roxie Cotton, Miss Rachel and ‘The Portuguese Princess’ Ariel. There’s also a two-page feature looking at the problems in the Beatdown Betties with exclusive quotes from Roxie Cotton, Rick Cataldo and Annie Social.

There’s WSU DVD reviews, news from websites and the most comprehensive news sections for women’s wrestling around the globe.

All four previous editions of ‘Fighting Females’ are also online at www.fightingfemales.co.uk and there’ll be more content going on the rest of the website later this week.

Thursday’s edition of iMPACT! topped ECW in the ratings, drawing a 1.1 rating and 1.4 million viewers compared to ECW’s 1.0 (rounded up from 0.95). Although, the number was down from the week before, which drew a 1.16 rating and 1.6 million viewers overall.

The most-watched quarter hour of iMPACT! was the sixth quarter hour, which featured Awesome Kong & Raisha Saeed vs. Taylor Wilde & Rhaka Khan, a Kevin Nash promo, and Mike Tenay’s interview with Sheik Abdul Bashir. Both the opening promo and main event segments each drew a 1.1 rating. iMPACT!’s rating slid to a 0.99 rating by the end of the first hour, but bounced back following Mick Foley’s promo at the top of the second hour. This week’s show drew a 0.90 rating among males 18-35, compared to 0.85 the previous week.

This is the best ratings news TNA has received in a while, as they are finally breaking the trend of losing hundreds of thousands of viewers for the main event

source – 24wrestling.com

Congrats once again to the TNA Knockouts for stealing the show!

Our very own, Cheerleader Melissa is showcased this month in Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s special PWI Female 50 issue!  Congratulations to Melissa and the rest of the female wrestlers that received full-page recognition in this issue.  PWI magazine has been around for many, many years and is the standard in pro wrestling magazines.  We thank PWI for their coverage of female wrestling and Cheerleader Melissa.

Pickup your copy of the PWI Female 50 at bookstores today or visit http://www.pwi-online.com for more information.

Here’s a breakdown for TNA’s iMPACT going into the Bound For Glory pay-per-view last week…

The Cute Kip vs. Rhino match lost 103,000 viewers, the X Division qualifying match with Petey, Creed, Dutt and Lethal with Karen’s Angle with Mick Foley gained 15,000 viewers. The Beer Money vs. Abyss and Matt Morgan match gained 0 viewers. Mick Foley’s in-ring interview going into the segment with Jeff Jarrett and Kurt Angle gained 44,000 viewers. That week’s peak rating came with the Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed vs. Roxxi and Taylor Wilde match, gaining 102,000 viewers going to a 1.00 rating. The Booker T vs. AJ Styles match lost 147,000 viewers while the final segment of the show, with Samoa Joe and Sting, only gained 15,000 viewers and ended at an 0.91 rating.

This past June we were fortunate enough to be involved with a live wrestling show that took place at Cauliflower Alley Club’s 43rd Annual Reunion in Las Vegas.  The show was promoted by Pro Wrestling Revolution and as a CAC Board Member, it was my job to make sure things ran smooth and of course to oversee the ChickFight match on the show.

Cauliflower Alley Club is a wonderful group of people and I can’t say enough about what a great organization it is.  The only downside to CAC is the fact the reunions only take place once a year.  During these reunions, you never know who you will meet next and it was a huge thrill for me this year as I had the opportunity to meet and work with Luna Vachon.

Luna Vachon was one of the few female wrestlers I remember really loving to watch as a kid.  I remember watching her and being blown away.  Luna was unlike anything I had seen before and she had the same affect on me as watching guys like the Missing Link.

Needless to say, I was excited when Gabriel Ramirez (owner of Pro Wrestling Revolution) approached me during the tryouts for the show and said there was a chance of getting Luna involved in some way.  After a quick glance at what we had for a line-up so far, the choice was obvious.  We wanted Luna to manage the team of former WWE Superstar, Gangrel and Billy Blade.

Luna was just one of several legends that were involved on the show that night, but working with her was deffinately a high point of the week’s events in my eyes.

Our own infamous photographer extraordinaire, Mike Lano sent over this picture of Luna posing with Strongman Jon Andersen and you can see, she still looks as good as ever.

Now just to book that Luna Vachon vs. Cheerleader Melissa Streetfight on an upcoming ChickFight show…. hmmmmm

During the 1960s, professional wrestling was huge at the Cow Palace. There are vast websites devoted to the phenomenon, which was part of a circuit that included Sacramento.

Now a new book, When I Shot Good Guys & Bad Guys Who Wrestled at the Cow Palace, commemorates the era. The book collects photographer Jim Fitzpatrick’s work documenting the bouts held by promoter Roy Shire, a former wrestler who became the biggest wrestling promoter in Northern California in the 1960s (scroll down in that page to “The Beginning” for Shire’s story).

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