DWW 1996 Mat Classic, European Beauties Edita (21) Vs Marietta (19), No Ordinary Pain

November 12, 2023,

History has a way of asking us what were we doing and thinking about when it occurred.

The year 1996 marks the starting of the famous film series Mission Impossible starring the A-List actor extraordinaire, Tom Cruise.

The series was produced by Paramount Pictures with the director being Brian de Palma. The film revolves around the mission by Ethan Hunt to uncover a person who framed him for the murderers of Impossible Missions Force.

In our fully competitive female submission industry, 1996 was another year that DWW ruled with an iron fist.

It was also the year where an International Event was held where the now legendary Edita of the Czech Republic faced Marietta from Hungary.

Here is what Femcompetitor Magazine had to say about Edita on September of 2014, “Edita was a tough female submission wrestler who could compete in all styles victoriously.

Blessed with a lithe slender frame, soft brown hair and a sweet, quiet feminine demeanor, one might never believe that over the years the Czech beauty Edita was one of DWW’s top fighters of all time.

My first introduction to Edita was watching her take on a mature, shapely Sonia who had the appearance of a sweet motherly type, but as we know, sometimes a mother’s love can be smothering and it seems like Edita found that out the hard way as she had no answers for Sonia’s close caress that ended in one erotic submission after another. Edita seemed on the verge of tears.

She would survive that and go to battle the likes of Petra, Luzia, Hana, Kriszta, Eva, Viktoria, Jana and other DWW warriors inside the Danube village and take on the likes of super star Nadege from outside the group. Though in a losing cause, her match against Tatyana at the 2000 Women’s Wrestling Convention in San Diego was a painful grind out affair that kept the audience glued to the ring.

A former freestyle wrestler, Edita possessed and mastered various styles of grappling used in matches that ranged from schoolgirl pins; straight wrestling, sumo wrestling and she even branched out into serious boxing matches as well.”

Very impressive.

It is how legends are made.

As Jeff the Ref introduced them, we wondered if this would be a Mission Impossible for Marietta.

EDITA VS MARIETTA

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That day, at 21, Edita was wearing her dark boxing match looking rob while 19 year old Marietta wore sea green.

In terms of her wrestling, Marietta, by contrast, is an open book. A blank page. The best is yet to come. Her background is Aerobics and dancing. Athletic, yes. Will that translate well to wrestling?

This was so early in Edita’s career, we asked ourselves, would this version of Edita resemble anything close to what we see today?

Time to find out.

The two beautiful girls begin with upper hand fighting. Edita is the aggressor and after some struggle takes Marietta down to the mats with a thud by monkey flip. Marietta responds immediately by trapping Edita into a side body scissors, indicating, though new that she may be, the athletic princess has been trained.

Edita squirms in anguish.

Marietta maintains the body scissor as Edita forcefully continues to push forward.

Forward.

Forward, until they come up against the wall. The hold has now transferred into a floor to kneeling body scissor with Marietta still in control. Edita is behind her, applying continual pressure.

Applying the pressure works.

Edita breaks the hold.

Marietta has now given up her back and Edita takes advantage of that. Interestingly, Edita is in an ideal position to apply a rear naked choke, wraps her arm around Marietta’s neck and Jeff the Ref quickly comes over and makes it clear, no choking.

Back in the day, things were very different.

Edita maintains control.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

The legend encases Marietta in a behind the back body scissor and begins to squeeze while she pulls Marietta’s chin upwards and backwards.

Marietta is in pain, her hands flailing away. This continues for some time.

Until it doesn’t.

Marietta painfully taps out.

1-0 for Edita (2:32).

This was a very different wrestling era and during the break, it is like a snap shot in time. Apparently this is an event as there are numerous gentlemen wearing shirts, sport coats and ties. There are many girls in the background, young and beautiful and most likely wrestlers. It is a hot day as both wrestlers are being fanned with towels in the apparent sweltering heat. In contrast to today, they are being allowed a very long break.

Time to engage.

If it worked before, try it again. Edita immediately takes Mrietta down with an arm drag flip but the 19 year is quick to give Edita a taste of her own medicine and traps her from behind in a body scissor and chin grab, which resembles a choke, and Maritta is asked to break the alleged choke.

The young girl now makes a mistake.

Let go of the choke, yes. Still, maintain an upper chin lock as Edita did so you have two painful submission attempts at work in a chin lock and behind the back body scissor. Now that she let go of the upper hold, Edita is free to use both hands to break the scissor and is now free.

The DWW Alum’s escape is short lived.

Marietta immediately re-captures her from behind with a fierce scissor and holds on while pulling both of Edita’s arms backward.

The struggle continues.

Their athletic bodies are a contrast in perfection. Marietta is wonderfully tanned while Edita is porcelain smooth.

With Edita’s arms locked up, Marietta continues to keep her in trouble, crunching the scissor hold.

It has now turned into a war of attrition. Edita is refusing to give up, waiting for the inexperienced girl to make a mistake.

She does.

Marietta let’s go of the effective behind the back clasps, elongates Edita on her stomch, rides her from the top attempting a smother but this allows Edita to get to her knees and break the hold.

The audience applauds.

It is now Edita who captures Marietta from behind and rolls her into a side body scissor with an upper head lock, crunches hard and Marietta painfully taps out.

2-0 for the future DWW star (9:35).

In the 1990’s, there were few time limit priorities like today. With DWW, it was mostly the first one to three, or the agreed upon time limit, could end in a tie.

We’ll see what happens here but we sense Edita is about to close this out in a white wash.

Time for a break.

The girls are fanned again.

Once they engage, Edita is the aggressor with a swift arm drag and take down. She quickly pounces on Marietta who is now in the turtle position.

The aggressive Edita pulls Marietta into a behind the back body scissor and uses both hands to pull Marietta’s chin backwards. An autoritative voice, which we assume is Gunther, admonishes “one hand only” and Edita let’s go of the second hand but continues to pull backwards with the one.

Marietta is still in trouble.

Edita maintains a painful headscissor which resembles today’s triangle choke.

Marietta contineus to struggle in pain as Edita closes her out.

Final score, 3-0 for the future DWW legend.

This match was released by DWW under the title, “A Dancer In Pain”.

Here are their words, “We had originally decided not to release these matches since they were extremely one-sided in terms of results. It’s not that the losers did not try but no matter what they did they were dominated and humiliated in front of an audience by a better woman.

Some of us have great pleasure in a very decisive contest where one can see in the loser’s eyes and body language the agony of total defeat and the thrill of complete destruction of another female in the way the triumphant female enjoys herself.

This is a real treat! See Hana vs. Marietta, Edita vs. Marietta, followed by blonde Andrea vs. birthday girl Krisztina, Susanne vs. Wanda, then blonde Romanian Eva vs. Mongolian Kati and finally the legendary and often requested Andrea vs. Tünde fight, a thrilling “blonde vs. brunette” challenge.”

Sounds wonderful.

It was great to see Edita in her early years and how a legend is formed.