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Professional Wrestler Mildred Burke

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No one would be surprised if a woman were to declare that she wanted to be a professional wrestler, but in the 1930s, it was a very big deal. Mildred Burke knew she wanted to become a professional wrestler when she was 18, and she reportedly got wrestling promoter Billy Wolfe to train her by body slamming his wrestlers. Eventually, she fell in love with Wolfe and married him. But her biggest accomplishment was wrestling over 200 men over the course of her career and winning. She only lost once.

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