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6.5/10 TV Defunct March 3, 2001 First episode date October 2000 | 6.4/10 IMDb Founded 2000 Website WOWE.com Acronym WOW | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Selina Majors, Bobbi Billard, Lana Kinnear, Tamie Sheffield, Renee Intlekofer Similar Lucha Underground, Impact Wrestling, Total Divas, WWE NXT, WWE Superstars Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Women of Wrestling, aka WOW!, is a women's professional wrestling promotion founded in 2000 by David McLane, previously the founder of Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. It is based in Los Angeles, California and is owned by Los Angeles Lakers owner and president, Jeanie Buss and McLane. The promotion launched a series of syndicated programs in the 2000-01 television seasons in 102 TV markets using a similar format of character driven performers, with names befitting a comic book series, such as Jungle Grrrl, an inmate tag-team complete with orange jump suits named Caged Heat, a Hollywood starlet named Lana Star and the Persian Princess,
Contents
- Initial run 20002001
- Dormant 20012012
- Relaunch 2012present
- WOW Tag Teams 20002002
- WOW other personnel
- List of episodes 20002002
- WOW SuperHeroes Taped 20132014 Aired 2016
- WOW Tag Teams Taped 2013 2014 Aired 2016
- WOW Unleashed
- References
WOW programs were able to stand out from other wrestling programs by offering television viewers and live event audience an all female troupe of performers who played campy villains and heroines in all sizes and nationalities. By being the only entertainment source of its kind, WOW captured a strong adult demographic following with its primary audience, the male television audience (18���49 years of age) generating 25% higher ratings than its secondary audience of young women (18-24), teens, and tweens (7-12).
In December 2014, WOW! announced their launch into digital media in 2015. Marketed as "WOW Superheroes" its characters are empowered women from all different backgrounds and professions.
Season 2 of the show premiered on March 1, 2016 on YouTube. Its fourth season premiered February 28, 2017.
Initial run (2000���2001)
WOW programming was aired in first-run syndication, often late at night and packaged with other sports-entertainment programming. The promotion aired about twenty four original one-hour episodes, fielding a single pay-per-view, Women of Wrestling Unleashed.
The majority of WOW's performers were rookies to the business, recruited from backgrounds in modeling, acting, stunt work, and martial arts. Selina Majors (who wrestled as "Bambi") and Thug (who wrestled as "Peggy Lee Leather") were the trainers for the company.
The programs quickly became the highest rated wrestling shows in the markets of New York and Los Angeles and demonstrated ability regardless of the region, market size or time-period to grow each television stations audience. With its headquarters in Los Angeles, CA, WOW held its live events which were taped for broadcast from the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California. The organization's first live event attendance was a mere 400+, but its audience grew to over 5,000 customers over the period of only six events and its website peaked in one month with slightly over 10 million unique visitors. Los Angeles Lakers' Jeanie Buss appeared regularly on WOW programming, although not as an in-ring participant.
Dormant (2001���2012)
Due to the ever soft and declining advertising market during this time, WOW wasn���t able to take advantage of its momentum and ceased production after completing 24 original episodes and one live pay-per-view event. WOW ceased television production by the fall, 2001. WOW, although off the air in the United States after 2001 continued to exist through international distribution deals with the markets of Israel, Russia, India, Canada, South Africa, Kenya, Middle East, Turkey, Malaysia, the Dominican Republic and other countries airing the WOW shows.
David McLane would attempt to relaunch the show again a few times over the next decade, with no success. One attempt in 2002 included a partnership with Kiss frontman Gene Simmons.
Starting in July 2011, the WOW website reported the WOW original shows started airing on the ABC affiliate KTNV in Las Vegas. The series continues to be distributed internationally. In 2013, Coors Light sponsored several live events in Las Vegas at the Eastside Cannery Casino and Hotel where new programs were produced.
Relaunch (2012���present)
On May 29, 2012, McLane and Buss announced their intention to produce new episodes of the series.
On Sunday, December 9, 2012, at 11am on the CW Las Vegas station KVCW, WOW! returned to television in advance of the "WOW! Pandemonium Tour 2013." WOW! kicked off the tour in Las Vegas, Nevada with their first live event on January 19, 2013.
The new programming of WOW featured some of the original WOW girls such as Lana Star, Jade, Delta Lotta Pain, Loca, Thug, Jungle Grrrl and Selina Majors with the addition of new talent who auditioned for WOW in the months prior to December 9, 2012 television show. The WOW talent is now referred to as "Superheroes". New WOW Superheroes are characters known as Frost, Fire, Stephy Slays, Keta Rush, La Ni��a and a Mexican star named Azucar. Original WOW Girl Selina Majors serves as the official trainer of WOW's new talent. Joining the roster are independent wrestlers Santana Garrett and Amber O'Neal.
WOW Tag Teams (2000���2002)
The remaining teams were mainly created for WOW's Tag Team Tournament, although some of the teams continued to team with one another until the end of the first season.
WOW other personnel
List of episodes (2000���2002)
Below are the results of the matches aired on the WOW TV Show and the dates they aired where I live.
WOW SuperHeroes (Taped 2013���2014 Aired 2016)
WOW Tag Teams (Taped 2013-2014 Aired 2016)
The original new tag teams. The only tag team that returned to the promotion was Caged Heat.
WOW Unleashed
WOW Unleashed was a professional wrestling pay-per-view from Women of Wrestling. It took place on February 4, 2001 from the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California. The PPV suffered from technical difficulties and a low buyrate. A second PPV, Spring Vengeance, was announced for April 8, 2001 during Unleashed, but never came to fruition. The announcers were Lee Marshall and former manager Bobby "The Brain" Heenan. Regular announcer David McLane, also the promotion's President, served as Master of Ceremonies.