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.
Trash Candy came out of Tacoma, Washington in 1991, a punk in combat boots, fishnets and a torn cheerleader's uniform, swinging a kendo stick. She was one of the first hardcore women's wrestlers in the GWA. She rode with Terminal Transmissions, and she spent her last two years at war with "Heart & Soul" Hannah Hope.
AT A GLANCE
- Billed from: Tacoma, Washington
- Active: 1991 to 1993
- Territories: Pacific Coast, Television
- Television: Night Trials, Off The Grid, Saturday Steel
- Faction: Terminal Transmissions
- Era: Traditions
CAREER
Terminal Transmissions (1991 to 1993)
She came in with Terminal Transmissions, the outfit around Alistair Astrovich and Johnny Waveland that ran its own late-night show, Off The Grid. She worked as their sidekick, at ringside for them as often as in the ring herself. Most of her television came on Night Trials and Off The Grid, and now and then on Saturday Steel.
She went after the people who ran the place, and the crowds took her side for it. By 1993 she was a featured attraction.
Vivian Vanceworth (1991)
In her first year she went after Vivian Vanceworth, The Duchess. In one of their matches she knocked one of Vanceworth's teeth out and screamed, "CANDY IS BAD FOR YOUR TEETH!"
Candy Sparks (1992)
In 1992 it was Candy Sparks, the Electric Angel. Trash Candy went after her because Sparks was considered pretty.
Hannah Hope (1992 to 1993)
Her longest fight was with "Heart & Soul" Hannah Hope, on Off The Grid and Saturday Steel. Hope was everything Trash Candy mocked from the ring. They were still at it when the GWA closed at the end of 1993.
Off camera
She was the same woman when the cameras were off. Backstage she once slapped Hannah Hope across the face, and it turned into a hair-pulling mess.
One night a heckler in the crowd would not let up. She reached into her tights, pulled out a tampon and threw it at him, and the building nearly rioted.
IN THE RING
The riot helmet and the kendo stick
Bleached blonde hair with dark roots, heavy black eyeliner, red lipstick smeared past her lips. A cheerleader's uniform in faded red and white, torn at the hem, over black fishnets ripped at both knees, and black combat boots. Most nights she wore a police riot helmet with the visor flipped up and carried a kendo stick.
Hardcore
She was one of the first women in the GWA to fight hardcore. Her matches spilled onto the floor and into the folding chairs, and most of them ended with somebody bleeding. Often it was her.
IN HER OWN WORDS
She called herself anti-pretty and said it every chance she got. She mocked the Barbie-doll types, in the ring and in the seats.
"Anti-pretty, petty-betty! Gritty-witty!"
"CANDY IS BAD FOR YOUR TEETH!"
LEGACY
She was one of the first hardcore women's wrestlers of the early 1990s. Her feud with Hannah Hope was never settled: the GWA closed at the end of 1993 with the two of them still at it.
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