Pro Wrestling Sheet posted the following statement from former trainee of the Fabulous Moolah, Jeannine Mjoseth, better known as Mad Maxine and Lady Maxine:
The Fabulous Moolah was a real-life heel. A lot of women paid to train at her school and then went out on the road. They risked life and limb in their matches and she repaid them with the worst kinds of abuses. She skimmed their money, she ignored women who were badly hurt, she pimped women out to creepy men and on and on. She was not a mother figure. She was more like Kali, the Indian Goddess of Destruction. I met her in my early 20s and I had never met such a monstrous person.
I was smart enough to get the hell away from her and start my own independent career in Tampa as part of the Championship Wrestling from Florida. Luna Vachon, Peggy Fowler and I all left together, which I hope put a serious dent in her confidence, if not wallet.
I understand why Moolah was so grotesque. Her family was dirt poor and she determined that she was never going to be hungry again. But it doesn’t excuse her dog-eat-dog behavior. I’d much rather see WWE establish a named match for outstanding wrestlers (and decent human beings) like Susan ‘Tex’ Green, Beverly Shade, Leilani Kai, Wendi Richter, Princess Victoria or Joyce Grable. They all put their hearts and souls into wrestling for decades and helped others along the way.
But wrestling isn’t PC. It’s about generating heat. And you can’t draw more heat than naming a match for The Fabulous Moolah. May she be the last of her kind.
Mjoseth’s statement comes a day after WWE announced the first-ever Fabulous Moolah Memorial Battle Royal would take place at Wrestlemania 34. An article from 2006 about allegations against Moolah was cited as reference to some of the claims made against the WWE Hall Of Famer. The article features the family of former Moolah student Sweet Georgia Brown making claims that Moolah threatened to beat Brown if she didn’t have sex with men sent to her hotel room, as well as being drugged, raped and having money stolen from her by Moolah.
