The Fabulous Moolah

The Fabulous Moolah was the ring name of Mary Lillian Ellison, an American professional wrestler, promoter and trainer who lived from July 22, 1923, to November 2, 2007. She started working with promoter Billy Wolfe and his wife, the wrestler Mildred Burke, won the NWA World Womens Championship in 1956 and was its most prominent holder for 28 years, an eight-time womens world champion overall. In the 1980s she joined the World Wrestling Federation in the Rock n Wrestling Connection storyline, feuding with Cyndi Lauper and Wendi Richter, who beat her for the Womens Championship at The Brawl to End It All in 1984. At age 76 in 1999 she became the oldest champion in wrestling history up to then, and in 1995 she was the first woman inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame.