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| Ring name | Mary Ann Kostecki Penny Banner The Amazon |
| height | 173 cm |
| Fighting weight | 75 kg |
| birth |
August 11, 1934 St. Louis , Missouri |
| death | May 12, 2008 Charlotte , North Carolina |
| debut | 1954 |
| retirement | 1977 |
Penny Banner (actually: Mary Ann Kostecki, born August 11, 1934 in St. Louis , Missouri , † May 12, 2008 in Charlotte , North Carolina ) was an American wrestler .
biography
According to her, Penny Banner took an interest in wrestling at the age of 20. She worked as a nanny and was able to use the host's fitness equipment in her free time. She also trained in judo . During her second job as a waitress, she was discovered by Sam Muchnik , then President of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). After a few try-outs, she changed her name to "Penny Banner" because the commentators had trouble getting her name right. Her nickname was "St. Louie Woman ”. In the wrestling business, she took on the role of the heel long before the term was coined. In the late 1950s she dated Elvis Presley , who was a huge wrestling fan at the time.
In her professional career she won the first “ AWA World Women's Championship ” in 1961 and never “lost” the title in a ring. In total, she stayed for 23 years (20 of them "undefeated") in professional wrestling and resigned in 1977 from wrestling. She is considered a pioneer for modern women wrestling.
In the 1990s she took part in various senior Olympics competitions and was able to win several medals in the disciplines of discus throwing and butterfly swimming.
In 2005 she was inducted into the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame. Her ex-husband Johnny Weaver , with whom she was married for 35 years, died in February 2008. They had a daughter together. She herself died just three months later a cancer . Until her death, she had never admitted that wrestling was pure show. Her book Banner Days also omits these passages.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview on Glorywrestling.com
- ^ Penny Banner's Career . wrestlingwomen.dyndns.org. Archived from the original on January 2, 2005. Retrieved December 26, 2014.
- ↑ Alex Marvez's weekly look at professional wrestling . shns.com. August 12, 2004. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved on December 26, 2014.
- ↑ WWF4ever.de
- ↑ Biography on Pwhf.org ( Memento from June 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Obituary in Slam magazine
literature
- Penny Banner: Banner Days , self-distributed, USA 2004
Web links
- Penny Banner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Banner, penny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kostecki, Mary Ann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis , Missouri |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 2008 |
| Place of death | Charlotte, North Carolina |