Jul 23, 2020 · In Akron, Ohio State, recently was held the first women's match in the mud, the show having attracted a great crowd. The fragile sex (?) [2] representatives hit each other for 12 minutes, the referee being the famous Ernie Maddock, "catch" specialist. The contenders were the blondes Mildred Burke, winner of the match, and Leona Gordon.

Mildred Burke vs Leona Gordon, billed as the first women's mud match January 12, 1938, The Times, Munster, Indiana Couple of Girls Do a Little Mud-Slinging-in the Ring-Not Over the Back Fence...

Officials called the match, and Burke left the ring believing that her title was safe because she had not lost two falls. The result was that many in the press stated that Byers had defeated her and the importance of Burke's championship began to diminish.

In 1938, she competed in what she believes was the first mud wrestling. Life magazine chronicled it. During the '40s in Jacksonville, Fla., she wrestled in a ring covered with a mixture of swamp mud and melted lard.

First women's mud wrestling match from Life Magazine (1/24/38). January 7, 1938 in Akron, OH at the armory. Mildred Burke pinned Leona Gordon (15:20).

Jun 29, 2017 · Promoters of her Akron, Ohio, match with Gordon advertised it as the "First Women's Mud Wrestling Match in History." Burke won in 15 minutes and 20 seconds.

May 19, 2020 · A historian friend of mine always sends me wrestling stories he finds while researching old newspapers. Here's a piece about the first women's mud match in the US, Mildred Burke Vs Leona Gordon, published in Brazilian magazine …

The notoriously tough Mildred Burke, fresh from winning a women's mud wrestling match! At merely 5'2" and under 130 lbs, she would become one of the most dominant champions in wrestling history,...

Mildred (Cyclone) Burke, of Kansas City, Missouri, claimant to the women's wrestling championship of the world, and Leona (Babe) Gordon, of Chicago, gave each other a mud pack 'treatment' when they took part in a Hindu-style wrestling match in a mud-filled ring at Akron, Ohio.