DWW’s Black Sea Amazons, Historic Forerunner To Today’s Female MMA
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November 22, 2023,
Portals are the things great science fiction is made of.
Entering them can place the character in new, previously unknown, situations of good, bad or in between.
The basic definition of a portal is, a doorway, gateway or entrance into another realm.
The oldest and most classic portals in literature was Alice In Wonderland and the book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children’s novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow.
It is the first novel in the Oz series of books.
A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a tornado.
Upon her arrival in the magical world of Oz, essential a portal of another realm, she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West.
What an impact that story had on the world.
Over a century later, the book is one of the best-known stories in American literature, and the Library of Congress has declared the work to be “America’s greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale.”
For those of us who have viewing fully competitive female submission wrestling since the snail mail days, the DWW BSA (Black Sea Amazons) fighters, perhaps unknown to them at the time, and to fans, were opening a portal into a new world of fully competitive female fighting that would change how women compete at the junior high school level, all the way up to the pros.
The Black Sea is a body of water and marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean between Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Western Asia.
It is supplied by a number of major rivers, such as the Danube, Dnieper, Southern Bug, Dniester, Don, and the Rioni.
As we know, the Danube region is home to our DWW beauties.
Time for a little bit of history.
In 2018, Femcompetitor magazine wrote, “In our competitive female submission wrestling industry we were first introduced to this interesting community through the Black Sea Amazons (BSA) who fiercely fought for DWW.
Our impression of that 1990s DWW time period was that compared to the rest of the female submission wrestling industry, the DWW Girls were the toughest. But watching the BSA girls battle it out in the ring as they kicked, punched and wrestled one another, they were frightening.
We even wondered why there was a need for that type of action in the DWW venue since it appeared to be so bloody and violent.
Little did we know that those BSA girls were way ahead of their time and were the forerunners to the global female MMA craze that continues to rise in popularity in our submission world, the lady pro world and after the freestyle girls graduate from their respective universities, the most popular option to compete professionally is in the MMA industry.”
We’re going to walk down memory lane with an event publicized by the DWW Team.
Three extreme fights: – from DWW Event March 1998: Rada K. (21) vs. Lessja R. (20), Svjeta L. (23) vs. Natalia S. (27), Tatyana K. (25) vs. Yulia (21)
“The Black Sea Amazons extreme fighting group visited DWW’s March 1998 Event and showed off their uncompromising ferocity. Lessja is a head-turning beauty whose quiet control always turns into the rage of a tigress as she steps through the ropes. Rada gets a very black eye and lots of other bruises, while surviving a hair-pulling ordeal that leave you incredulous.
Medical student Svjeta L. is very competitive: she pulls hair with abandon. Tatyana K.’s taekwondo experience is put to a very severe test by Yulia’s punching speed. Neither expects quarter, neither gives any. These fights are as real as it gets, from girls who can really fight. A video for fans of lengthy hair pulling, head scissors and ground fighting.”
The BSA girls never give a quarter or any amount for that matter.
Think about it. Those were the snail mail days. In 1998, few new anything about the Internet or its future.
Here is another DWW review.
“Match: Olenia K vs Oksana P
“Iryna M. first encountered Olenia K. on BSA-131 in their first extreme fight. Here are their second and third battles. Evenly matched, substantial girls who are game for a fight and hold nothing back.
Olga K. also wants to try for a piece of Olenia and finds that emotion is no substitute for a hard punch.
Statuesque brunette sports instructor Oksana P. shows her power, lifting weights and doing pull-ups. She gets a rough introduction to fighting with minimal rules against Olenia K.
The match lasts one minute only and it ends with a bloody nose and lip for one of the fighters.
The toughest test is a brutal confrontation between taekwondo champion Tatyana K. and Iryna B. at her most uninhibited. Reputations are at stake as they bury their hands in each other’s hair and go at it without thought of defense, punching and kicking to a finish. It’s rough and it’s real.”
Indeed.
The knock on the BSA fights were that they were too violent. Too extreme. Well. An argument could be made, the world we live in today is far more violent and extreme than 1998.
When the UFC first came to the fore, many people were disgusted and appalled by the extreme violence. Professional boxing already had its critics and when a boxer died in the ring, there were calls to ban the sport.
Look how far MMA has come today.
On December 15, 2022, the team at hawkeyesports.com posted, “The University of Iowa Athletics Department and its multimedia rightsholder, LEARFIELD’s Hawkeye Sports Properties, today announced that UFC®, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, will serve as a proud sponsor of the men’s and women’s wrestling programs.”
Imagine that.
We’re certain few could have imagined that, back in the snail mail days of DWW BSA wrestling and extreme fighting.
The BSA Fighters took us through a portal.
Good, bad or in between.
The world of fully competitive female submission wrestling has never been the same since.
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