Finding Your Forever Tag Team Partner | Faces & Heels

Pro wrestling can be a lonely way to make a living, driving long hours to make the next show in a town you’ve never heard of. But the bonds that form between wrestlers in the business are unbreakable and essential to making it big. In Episode 5 of Faces & Heels, we look at the friendships and love that bloomed inside the squared circle.

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0:00 Intro/The importance of friendship within the wrestling community.

1:43 Willow Nightingale explores her relationship with best friend and fellow wrestler Solo Darling, making up the inseparable tag team, The Bird and the Bee.

3:08 Big Swole talks up her friendship with Keira Hogan, whom she sees as a little sister figure and serves as a mentor.

4:37 Big Swole discusses the importance of women supporting other women, especially Black women, within the pro wrestling world in order to elevate them and provide opportunities they would otherwise be denied.

5:58 Jordynne Grace and others discuss creating a safer work environment for women wrestlers, banding together, and speaking up to make the business a more inclusive space.

Women’s wrestling has come a long way over the last decade, as the business of pro wrestling has become a more welcoming and inclusive space for women wrestlers and femme wrestlers. Whether it's WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment, WWF, AEW, All Elite Wrestling, IMPACT Wrestling, or any of the countless indie wrestling promotions out there, women wrestlers are having their moment in the main event. From WWE WrestleMania, WWE Raw, and WWE Smackdown to AEW Dynamite and AEW Collision, women like Willow Nightingale, Kiera Hogan, Jordynne Grace, Big Swole, Dimanante, Keyana Bell, Marti Belle, and countless others are changing the game with each wrestling match. In Faces & Heels from NowThis, we look back at one of the most important years of women’s wrestling ever from a 2023 perspective and recount the incredible journey of these women wrestling.

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Finding Your Forever Tag Team Partner | Faces & Heels

[kekzr]

You said "around the world" pretty confidently, as it's something that is popular everywhere. I like how it's a segment with and about women though. Men in this genre has too much space. And this is one of the things where women and men can be equal. And should be.