Independent Pro Wrestling -- Real and BC Story

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Pro wrestling isn't something I pay attention to at all.

But this story of a TG wrestler heading her own venue was the cover story in the San Francisco Chronicle feature section last Sunday. (It's behind a paywall but I think visitors get at least one free story.) Really seemed to me to read like something that could have been written here.

A wrestler breaks free
As the founder of Hoodslam, Oakland's wild underground wrestling show, Sam Khandaghabadi performed as the Dark Sheik. Then she came out as a trans woman, and life changed forever — both inside the ring and out.

The setup reminded me a lot of a story that was posted here some years back, involving a smalltown wrestling troupe; all their spectators knew their real lives and personalities in addition to what they did in the ring. Their leader portrayed the manager -- in heavy-framed glasses and with a smug attitude, IIRC -- and got himself scripted to lose a bet and get into drag. Turned out, eventually, that unknown to our protagonist and the rest of the group, there were demigods involved, including a couple of beautiful women who looked like identical twins, one of whom attracted herself to our hero/ine. (The other was married.)

Anyway, I couldn't find that story using the Search function here. Anybody know it?

Eric

Shades of a Goddess

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"Imagination is more important, than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds
new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’, but ‘that’s funny…’” - Isaac Asimov

Thank You...

Thanks -- read it through again last night.

Apparently it's only been posted for two or three years. I'd have thought I'd remember it better,

Eric

and there is a Trans pro wrestler

for real in AEW which is All Elite Wrestling, run by Cody Rhodes (father was Dusty Rhodes..."If you weeelll") The show is on Wednesday nights on WTBS I think. Nyla Rose is a MtF.

Catherine Linda Michel

As a T-woman, I do have a Y chromosome... it's just in cursive, pink script. Y_0.jpg

Wow

Thank you I didn't know that and I catch AEW from time to time(much better than raw smackdown n nxt)