Mae Young

Mae Young (Johnnie Mae Young, 1923 to 2014) was an American professional wrestler, trainer and promoter from Sand Springs, Oklahoma. She began on her high school boys wrestling team and joined Billy Wolfe's touring women's troupe, wrestling across the United States and Canada and winning several National Wrestling Alliance titles. With Mildred Burke she was among the first women to tour Japan after the Second World War, and she is regarded as a pioneer who raised the profile of women's wrestling in the 1940s. She returned to national attention from 1999 in the World Wrestling Federation, often paired in comedy segments with The Fabulous Moolah, and wrestled on television well into her seventies and beyond. She entered the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2004 and the WWE Hall of Fame in 2008, and WWE named the Mae Young Classic women's tournament after her.