The only rumor is that this Moolah was a real person! Everyone knows they meant the Giant Uterus.
On Sunday, December 29, 2019 at 7:28:04 PM UTC-5, Markie Post wrote:
https://babyfacevheel.substack.com/p/did-penny-banner-really-call-the
But the earliest example that can be found on Google is a post on the rec.sport.pro-wrestling Usenet newsgroup (basically a decentralized message board) from nine days after Moolah’s death. Posted by “Greg Grant of 333,”
it’s framed as an original writing, and none of the replies call him out to
say otherwise; the writing style is also similar to that of his other
posts. The most likely suspect for someone who would have cleaned up a theoretical Banner post, Dave Meltzer, published the first part of his Moolah bio in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (cover date November 12, 2007) that started hitting subscribers’ mailboxes that weekend, but there’s
nothing of the sort in that issue. (“Moolah was a pimp” does not appear to
have been quoted at all in the Observer until the April 2, 2018 issue that covered the battle royal naming fallout.) Meanwhile, the day after the RSPW post went up, it was shared on the Kayfabe Memories forum (explicitly as a reprinted RSPW post and I even posted in the replies at the time) and whatever the StephenMalkmus.com forum is (where there was no attribution other than “Another Perspective on Moolah”).
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