Beverly Lehmer Was Woman Wrestler of '50s, '60s

Beverly Lehmer, who died August 30, spent a few years in the early 1950s under the thumb of Billy Wolfe, the czar of women's wrestling. Having taken a break for a short marriage, she returned to the business part-time, on call for promoter Joe Dusek, who promoted throughout the midwest.

Based out of Council Bluffs, Iowa, at the time, Lehmer had no problem with the unpredictability of it all.

"I'm a spur-of-the-moment type of person," she said, so getting the call at the last minute was okay. "Usually when he would call me, the girls had been in an accident on the way, didn't show up, it was time to wrestle and nobody was there. I'd be at a bingo game, and my name would be on the loudspeaker and I'd go. He'd say, 'Bev, can you go home and get your tights?'"...More?

source: slam wrestling