For as much as Cyndi Lauper's involvement in the 1980s WWF Rock and Wrestling Connection was important, Texas native Wendi Richter being an young, attractive and gifted Women's Champion to balance out older, (booked as) less attractive and devious Fabulous Moolah's involvement in said storyline. Given that we wouldn't be looking at this website if the success of the "Rock and Wrestling" revolution hadn't allowed for the birth of WrestleMania, Richter's important. Of course, Richter losing her championship via Fabulous Moolah shoot pinning Richter while dressed as the masked "Spider Lady" is one of wrestling's most notorious stories, too, which only adds to her level of importance.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
