Profiles
"Heart & Soul" Hannah Hope
Joanna Calloway of Hutchinson, Kansas wrestled as "Heart & Soul" Hannah Hope from 1980 to 1993 on the Great Plains and Pacific Coast. She held the GWA Women's Championship twice.
Josh Schairbaum
Creator and caretaker of the Great Western Wrestling Alliance Worldbook — a fictional pro-wrestling universe spanning 1957 to 1993 across seven North American territories.
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Sakina Redmoon
Darlene Benally, a Navajo woman raised in Los Angeles, wrestled as Sakina Redmoon from 1978 to 1986 in the Southwest and on the Pacific Coast. She held the GWA Women's Championship in 1979.
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GWA Day 2026
Three years in. Twenty new profiles joined the Worldbook this year, a few more are waiting for 2027, and here is where to find the GWA.
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Kiki Starr
Kiki Starr came out of the Sunset Strip go-go clubs and debuted on the Pacific Coast in 1968. She teamed with Peaceful Pete Donovan as Donovan & Starr, held the GWA Women's Championship from 1975 into 1976, and played the older woman to Barrett Mason on Wrestling Junction in 1977.
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Chief Black Hawk
A Ute fire-crew man from southern Colorado who became the most popular wrestler in the Rocky Mountain territory, held the Great Western Championship from 1981 into 1982, and asked every Native wrestler in the West to stand together.
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Billy "Bake-Lite" Larson
Billy Larson left a Bakersfield plastics plant for the ring in 1973. On the Pacific Coast he stood up to management on TV, beat "Big" Stan Rafferty in a factory outside Fresno, and met Jackie Burns in the Heatwave Showdown.
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Emily Beaumont
Emily Beaumont left Magnolia Hall for the wrestling ring before her brother James Montgomery did. She worked the Rio Grande Valley and the Gulf Coast for nineteen years with a lace parasol and a sleeper hold.
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Wendell Briggs
Wendell Briggs wrestled the Rocky Mountain and Rio Grande Valley circuits for nineteen years and set up the ring for the cards he opened. In 1976 Bo Bradley picked him for the Frontier Justice League.
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Trash Candy
Punk women's wrestler Trash Candy came out of Tacoma in combat boots, fishnets and a torn cheerleader's uniform, swinging a kendo stick. One of the first women in the GWA to fight hardcore, she knocked out Vivian Vanceworth's tooth and never stopped fighting Hannah Hope.
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El Violín
El Violín was the masked high-flyer of The Midnight Maracas, the mariachi luchador tag team he formed with El Guitarrón. He worked the GWA from 1968 to 1989.
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Vinnie Voltage
Bodybuilder Vinnie Voltage bellowed promos into the hard camera and won the Columbia tag titles twice beside Felix Frenzy. Then Sterling Radcliffe handed him a check, and in a shocking turn he clamped his nerve hold on his own partner.
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Scott Darkness
Scott Darkness came to the GWA in 1988 in face paint and taped fists, talking about heavy metal. Crowds laughed at him until he walked out behind The Phantom on Night Trials.