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Mary Lillian Ellison (July 22, 1923 – November 2, 2007) was an American professional wrestler, better known by her ring name The Fabulous Moolah. She began her career working with promoter Billy Wolfe and his wife, wrestler and trainer Mildred Burke, as well as working alongside professional wrestler "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers. She won the NWA World Women's Championship in 1956 and was the most prominent holder of the title for approximately the next 30 years. In the 1980s, she joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE) as part of the Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection storyline, feuding with Cyndi Lauper and Wendi Richter, the latter of whom defeated her for the WWF Women's Championship in 1984. Ellison was marketed by the WWF as holding the record for the longest title reign by any athlete in any professional sport.〔 According to WWE, she was also the first WWF Women's Champion and held the title a total of four times. In addition, Ellison was a prominent trainer and promoter in women's professional wrestling. In the 1990s, she returned to the WWF in a comedic role with longtime friend Mae Young. Ellison became the first woman to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1995 and became the oldest champion in the history of professional wrestling when she won the WWF Women's Championship at age 76, in 1999. In 2010, WWE recognized her as the 27th best wrestler ever.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Full list of WWE's "Top 50 Superstars of All Time" )〕 == Early life == Mary Lillian Ellison was born in 1923 in Kershaw County, South Carolina,〔 〕 and grew up in Tookiedoo, 12 miles from Columbia.〔Ellison, Lillian. ''First Goddess of the Squared Circle'', p. 26.〕 The youngest of five children, Ellison was the only daughter of a part Cherokee father and an Irish mother. Her parents owned a farm, a grocery store, and a service station.〔 When her mother died of cancer, eight-year-old Ellison went to live with her paternal grandmother and worked on her cousin's cotton farm to make money. At age 10, Ellison was still deeply distraught over her mother’s death; to cheer her up, her father took her to the local wrestling matches. Ellison liked the matches, but it was not until she saw Women's Champion Mildred Burke wrestle that "they began to mean much more to me."〔Ellison, Lillian. ''First Goddess of the Squared Circle'', pp. 30–32.〕 Ellison returned to the Columbia home of her father and brothers.〔Ellison, Lillian. ''First Goddess of the Squared Circle'', pp. 36–38.〕 She graduated Columbia High School, but at age 14 married 21-year-old Walter Carroll. They soon became parents to a daughter.〔 A few months after the birth of her daughter, she divorced Carroll.〔 Still only 15, she left her daughter with a friend and set out on a wrestling career of her own.〔〔〔Ellison, Lillian. ''First Goddess of the Squared Circle'', pp. 43–45.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Fabulous Moolah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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