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After an indie pro wrestling show left stars in her teenage eyes - “I was in touching distance, but at the same time, they were larger than life” - she eventually moved back to Sacramento “with a backpack, a paycheck, and a dream ” No one knows what’s gonna happen,” said Brittany Chenault, aka the often-pigtailed superhero Brittany Wonder.Ĭhenault, 29, has been wrestling since high school. “GLAM is like throwing a deck of cards up into the air and seeing where they land.
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These are events meant to be celebrations rather than exhibitions, said Khandaghabadi, and there is a high level of debauchery baked into the DNA of these 21-and-over shows. Like its predecessor, this new show will have a long, unfurling storyline while also welcoming guest wrestlers from around the country. Hoodslam is now a wildly popular weekly fixture that includes GLAM as its second Friday of the month confection. Anyone who watches it for long enough can find something they like or some story they enjoy.” A wrestler himself, he felt Hoodslam was the antidote the Northern California wrestling community needed. “I wasn’t happy with how was being presented, so I wanted to do my own thing,” said owner Sam Khandaghabadi on what first hatched Hoodslam nearly a decade ago. In a sport that has historically been known to tokenize women, this show flips the script and - in between sparky songs by GLAM’s house band Oinga Boinga - gives them the freedom to be whoever they want.
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This femmed-out iteration carries over Hoodslam’s legacy of absurdity while also insisting the world of wrestling make way for even more gender play. This show, called GLAM for Guilty Lethal Action Mayhem - a new monthly sister performance to the indie pro wrestling production Hoodslam - brings women to the fore. Just minutes before, he’d been ping-ponging around the ring, leaning over the ropes to offer a communion of sorts - whipped cream-flavored vodka poured straight into the mouths of the glowy-eyed young crowd. “She takes Bambina’s shoulder and neck across the canvas, skips her like a stone on the river,” said Anton Voorhees, the show’s commentator. Her red lips shuddered, but the rest of Bambina and her League of Their Own-themed pink mini dress lay temporarily motionless. No one knew exactly what the Sun Key was or did, but they wanted to win it, and the third match was heating up.Īfter a fierce gulp of a 40 swiped from the hands of a willing audience member, superhero Brittany Wonder went in for a clothesline - a wide-arm running strike - and slammed The Great Bambina to the ground. On one of those unusually glacial evenings in early February, a congregation of dedicated fans descended on the Oakland Metro Operahouse near Jack London Square to watch their favorite wrestlers fight for the enigmatic Sun Key. GLAM stands for Guilty Lethal Action Mayhem, and it’s a new monthly sister performance to the indie pro wrestling production Hoodslam that brings women to the fore.