All Pro Mixed Tag Match By Hank Edwards The Fabulous Moolah and Toni Rose get to fight future champ Bob Backlund in his first professional match in this fictional mixed tag team mach. In the Fall of 1970, the then reigning woman's tag team champions, the Fabulous Moolah and Toni Rose, were scheduled to meet Vicky Williams and Joyce Grable in a championship match in the city of Newark, New Jersey. However, Joyce had sprained her ankle the night before in a singles match against Patti Neilsen in New Heaven and would not be able to compete. Rather than cancel the WWF match, the promoter, Vince McMahon, Jr., suggested that Vicky team up with one of the young male wrestlers who had just started working out with the trainers. "This guy's never had a match," Vicky noted, "Moolah will beat the hell out of him. Then they'll be free to double-team me at will. I don't know. Maybe we should just call off the match." "Now wait a second," said McMahon. "The guy is six foot and weighs 200 lbs. What's Moolah going to do about that? Besides, he's a good looking kid and very young, he just turned 20." "Okay," Vicky asked, "what's his name?" "McMahon replied, "Backlund, Bob Backlund. Don't worry, he'll make up in size what he lacks in experience." Moolah could only laugh when McMahon broke the news to her and Rose. "Boy Vince, where do you come up with these gimmicks? Do you think the Jersey Wrestling Commission will let you get away with this kind of match?" McMahon looked at Moolah and said, "Leave the Wrestling Commission to me. Come on Moolah, I'll be fun. Just toss this guy around the ring a couple of times and make sure you let him have a turn with you. The crowd will love it." Moolah turned to Rose and asked, "Toni, what do you think? Are you game?" "Well," replied Toni Rose, "you know I always thought we could beat a lot of the guys in the WWF, now is our chance to prove it. Let's do it." As the two teams entered the ring, the announcer grabbed the mike and called out, "This is a special mixed tag team match featuring the world woman's tag team champions the Fabulous Moolah and Toni Rose. Their opponents tonight are the mixed team of Bob Backlund and Vicky Williams. This fight is scheduled for two out of three falls, with a one-hour time limit." The Moolah and Rose were treated to jeers as they took off their championship belts and ring jackets. Both wore modest all black one-piece wrestling suites with black boots. Moolah had a lioness' mane of brushed black hair, while Toni's raven hair was teased high off her head with dark bangs coming down to her intense brown eyes. On the other side of the ring, Backlund wore standard blue wrestling trunks while Vicky had on a blue wrestling suit with a white flower pattern on it. Vicky wrestled barefoot, as she would throughout almost all of her wrestling career. Both Bob and Vicky were blondes, with Vicki's boyish hairstyle only slightly longer than Bob's. As the referee gave out his instructions in the canter of the ring, Moolah placed her hands on her hips and turning to Toni Rose, declared, "I want him. I don't care what you do to her, I want the guy. Tag me as soon as he gets in the ring." While she was talking, she stood directly in front of Backlund, smiling at her intended victim. Although Bob Backlund was several inches taller and about 40 pound heavier than Moolah, you could see the fear in the young man's eyes as he stood facing the much more experienced world champion in his first professional match. Meanwhile, Moolah's tough Italian partner, Toni Rose, just smiled at Vicky, as she looked her over. At the sound of the bell, Toni climbed through the ropes. However, upon seeing Backlund enter the ring on the other side, Moolah instantly tagged her partner and took her place in the ring. Just as Moolah was about to lock up with Backlund in the middle of the ring, Backlund suddenly turned away, waived his arms as if to surrender, and tagged off to Vicky. As Vicky entered the ring, Moolah called out to Backlund "Okay, stay out for now, but sooner or later you're gonna have to come in and fight, understand?" As Moolah launched her threat, the blonde Vicky used the distraction as an opportunity to catch her foe off-guard and delivered a hard knee to the belly. The champion gasped and fell forward clutching her stomach. Vicky bent over and taking a handful of hair locked her foe's head in between her knees. With Moolah's head between her legs, Vicky Williams jumped as high as she could and shot her opponent across the ring with a knee- knocker. Luckily for Moolah, she landed in front of her partner and made the tag. Toni came out and went right to work on Vicky. She began with punishing arm bars and hammerlocks that brought cries of pain from the petite blonde. To add emphasis, Toni straightened out her foe's weakened arm and brought down a crushing knee drop to her biceps. As Vicky lay flat on her back on the mat, Toni sat on her foe's left shoulder and pulled the girl's arm through her crotch. This hold allowed Toni to twist Vicky's wrist while working on her opponent's long, slender, fingers. All Vicky could do was kick her feet up and down on the mat whenever Toni tightened her grip. >From time to time, Vicky was able to reach up Toni's back with her free hand in an attempt to grab some of her foe's long black hair. Whenever she got close, however, Toni would give a hard twist on the trapped arm and Vicky would be forced to let go and slam at the mat in pain. Feeling that she had weakened her opponent's arms enough, Toni switched her attack to the legs. She turned Vicky over onto her stomach and bent her foe's legs in a cross-over toehold. For additional punishment, Toni dug her own knee into the back of Vicky's left thigh while keeping the pressure on her foe's other leg. Toni could tell from the way Vicky pounded the mat that she was hurting her in a vulnerable area. When the ref went to ask Vicky if she wanted to quit, Rose went to work on Vicky's bare toes, bending and twisting with all her might. Smiling at her foe's misery, Toni sat down on Vicky's behind and tugged even harder on the blond's twisted legs. With a determined look of pain etched on her face, Vicky Williams slowly pulled herself to the ropes. Vicky got a firm clasp on the middle rope. The Referee barked out to Toni "Okay, Rose, break the hold, she's on the ropes." Toni turned around, grabbed Vicky's feet and pulled on the legs of her foe until Vicky was forced to let go of the ropes. The hurt wrestler landed hard on her outstretched stomach and chest. With a look of delight, Toni dragged the weary Vicky to the center of the ring and once again tied the legs of her opponent in a toehold while sitting on the fallen woman's lower back. Vicky could only pull her own hair and slap the mat to ease the pain that was being applied to her soft, shapely legs. Rose fluffed her hair to mock her opponent's predicament while sitting on Vicky's back and working on the girls legs. Perhaps she got too carried away with enjoying her opponent's misery because she didn't seem to notice that Vicky was crawling and getting closer to making a tag with her partner. Backlund stood on the bottom rope with his arm stretched out hoping for the chance to touch Vicky's hand and stop her suffering. Toni didn't have a chance once the tag was made. She was still sitting on Vicky when Backlund entered the ring and delivered a devastating boot to Toni Rose's fleshy back. Grabbing hold of Toni's shoulder's from behind, Backlund leaped up and came down with two knees to his opponent's lower back area. Toni`s head shook with the force of each blow. Not letting up for a second, Backlund dug his fingers into the wrestler's thick black hair and pulled her up from the mat. He quickly turned and threw Rose's weakened body into his own corner with a punishing hair-haul snap mare. Outside the ropes, Vicky pulled Toni into her corner like a spider having trapped a helpless fly. The pert blonde held Toni by the hair with one hand while using the other to punch the midsection and ribs of her black clad opponent. Meanwhile, Backlund stood face to face with Toni and dug his knee into her lower belly and crotch. Toni held back her tears and simply moaned as Vicky and Backlund punished her in the corner. By the time the referee was able to break up the double-teaming, Toni Rose's body was lying in a crumpled heap on the mat. Tagging out to Vicky, Backlund stepped on Toni's round breasts as he left the ring. Moving slowly and deliberately, Vicky climbed between the ropes and raked Toni's face with her fingers. She then tied her foe's legs in a toe-hold which she held with her own legs while straddling Toni's back and pulling hard on Toni's chin from behind. As the blue clad blonde tugged harder on the leglock and face hold, Toni's eyes began to well up with tears. She would not, however, submit when asked by the referee. Finally, Vicky looked up a Backlund who was in the nearby corner and said, "why don't you finish her off." After a quick tag, Toni found herself straddled by Backlund who alternately pulled back on her chin and smashed her face into the mat. He could feel her body weakening each time Toni's face hit the canvas. When he felt that he had knocked the fight out of the woman, he took Toni's arms while sitting on her back and placed them around his legs and pulled hard on the woman's chin in a punishing camel clutch. Seeing her partner ready to quit, Moolah ran across the ring to help out. However, Vicky met her in the center of the ring with a drop kick that landed hard on Moolah's breasts. Backlund looked up at the ref and the ref turned to Toni and said "how about it?" Toni flapped her arms and angrily cried out, "All right, I give up, I give up." The ref signaled for the first fall bell to ring. Vicky and Backlund immediately hugged each other and kissed in the center of the ring. Backlund was visibly pleased with his first professional victory, even if it was against a woman. Vicky and Bob walked around the ring arm in arm making a point to step on Toni Rose who was still trying to get up off the mat. Moolah dragged her partner back to their corner to get her ready for the second fall since there would only be a two-minute rest period between falls. As Moolah massaged Toni's sore back and neck, the announcer formally awarded the fall to Vicky and Backlund while the ref held their arms up in victory. When the bell rang to start the second fall, Backlund ran out quickly, hoping to continue his punishment of Toni Rose exactly where he left off. Toni, however, tagged right off to Moolah. As Moolah entered the ring, Backlund complained to the ref, "Hey, she's not allowed in here." Moolah pointed at Backlund with a look of disgust, "Come on you jerk, come and get it." The ref insisted that Toni start the fight. Even after the stalling tactic, however, Toni was still shaken from the punishment she had received only minutes earlier. Backlund rushed in trying to take advantage of Toni's weary condition. Grabbing an arm he tossed Toni into ropes and delivered a hard punch to the girl's soft midsection as she bounced off. Toni collapsed in the middle of the ring holding her stomach and shaking her head to try to regain her composure. Backlund picked her up with a handful of black hair and threw her once again into the ropes preparing to give her a shoulder block to the belly as she came off. This time Toni was able to raise one of her beautiful knees and connect with a powerful kick to Bob Backlund's head. The young wrestler's inexperience had hurt him and now it was Backlund who was withering in pain on the mat while Toni stood over his fallen form thinking of how best to exact revenge. Standing in front of Backlund, Toni gripped the man's ears with her two hands and pulled him up. Backlund brought his hands to his ears in order to stop Toni's attack. However, this left him open and Toni quickly punched him back down with a couple of female fists to the stomach. Toni Rose's round behind shook with the fury of each punch. Gathering Bob's head in a side headlock, Toni took a fist full of hair and walked her male foe into her corner where Moolah eagerly awaited the chance to join in the beating. Moolah smiled as she moved into the ring for the kill. A kick to the midsection bent the man over. Moolah then grabbed Backlund's right arm while Toni yanked away on his left. Continuing to work on the arms, the girls alternately delivered punishing knee lifts to the hapless man's head and chest. As his legs became rubbery, Toni and Moolah found the need to hold him up by the arms as they repeatedly delivered knees to Backlund's semi-conscious head. With Bob Backlund beginning to fade, the champs used a double arm whip to slam their victim's back into the corner turnbuckles. Moolah then proceeded to tie up the man's arms and legs in the corner ropes. Moolah backed up a few feet to see if Backlund could escape from his predicament. When she was satisfied that Backlund was helpless, Moolah stepped back, took aim and drove a hard shoulder into Backlund' stomach. As Moolah landed, the male wrestler's moans could be heard throughout the arena. Vicky, fearing for her partner, ran into the ring to see if she could save him from further punishment at the hands of the champs. Before she even made it to mid-ring, she was greeted by a Toni Rose drop-kick to the chest. Vicky rolled around on the mat clutching her breasts and letting out loud screams of agony. Moolah and Toni came right over to Vicky's fallen form and picked her up by the arms and legs. With each girl holding onto a pair of Vicky's limbs, they began to propel her across the ring head-first like a human battering ran, aiming right for Bob Backlund who was still tied up in the corner. Both Backlund and Vicky cried out as the cute blond's head landed squarely into the mid-section of Bob Backlund. The black suited wrestlers then proceeded to swing Vicky's body back and forth, each time driving her blonde head into her own partner's belly. The ref cried out, "All right. This is illegal. One of you must leave the ring." Vicky, realizing that she was not has hurt as her partner, said "I'll stay and fight. But please, let him go, he's already taken enough of a beating." All Backlund could do was plead "Yeah, take her, please take her and let me have a chance. Please let me have a chance." With looks of disgust, Toni and Moolah grabbed the arms of their male opponent one more time and heaved him out of the ring. Toni then turned to Moolah and said firmly, "Okay, I'll take Vicky." Toni slowly pulled the girl off the mat by the hair and tossed her into the ropes. As she came off, Rose met her with a forearm smash to the breasts. With a look of pain etched on her face, Vicky's body collapsed to the mat. Toni picked up her foe again only to cut her down with a painful chop to the throat. Vicky was so out of it now that the only movement she could make was a strange twitching of the left leg. Toni picked up the beaten girl and threw her into the ropes. As Vicky's body bounced off, Toni wrapped her arms around the blonde's waist and picked her up in a crushing bear hug. Toni's body pressed against Vicky's as she squeezed harder on the blue clad wrestler's midsection and back. Vicky tried kicking with her legs and punching Toni's head back with her wildly swinging arms. However, each time she moved Toni would tighten her grip until Vicky could only throw her hands up in disgust. Toni carried her foe around the ring like this until, finally, the air had been squeezed out of Vicky's belly and the blonde was forced to scream out her submission. Toni continued to apply the pressure long after Vicky quit. In the end, the referee had to threaten to award to the fall and the match to Backlund and Vicky before Toni would break her bear hug. When she did, she simply dropped the beaten girl onto the canvass. Moolah and Toni held their arms up in victory as they brought their boots down on Vicky's fallen form. Backlund was visibly afraid to come out and help his partner, so Moolah and Toni stomped Vicky at will. She was only able to make it back to her corner with the help of the referee. Vicky was unable to answer the bell when it rang to begin the third fall. As the beautiful Toni Rose raced across the ring to meet her opponent, all Vicky could do was drop to her knees and pray for mercy. Toni stood above Vicky's kneeling form waiving her right fist. Instead of punching her, though, Toni took aim at the flower pattern embossed on the belly portion of Vicky's blue wrestling suit and kicked the girl hard in the stomach. As Vicky bent over to absorb the pain, Toni landed several knee drops to her opponent's exposed back and neck. Having had her fun, Toni kicked the blue clad wrestler out of the ring. She then smiled with glee as she motioned with her index finger for Backlund, yelling, "come in and fight like a man." Toni didn't wait for Bob Backlund to enter the ring. She swiftly ran over and entwined her fingers in his hair and pulled him forcibly into the ring. Wrapping Backlund's head in a side headlock, Toni gave her male foe a brutal tour of the ring, smashing his head into the turnbuckles and raking his eyes on the ropes. As she neared her own corner, Toni tightened the headlock and ran hard. Moolah was hanging in the corner with her feet on the second rope and her large behind jutting out into the ring. With all of her momentum, Toni rammed Backlund's face right into Moolah's butt. Although Backlund tried to fall to the mat following the blow, Toni stayed with her headlock and punished Backlund by repeatedly smashing his face into her partner's well-rounded ass. Finally, Moolah cried out "let's give him the hangman's hold!" Moolah positioned herself in the corner on the top rope with her legs going across to the other top rope. Toni pushed Backlund's head in between Moolah's legs and Moolah applied a painful head scissors directly around the man's neck. To finish him off, Toni came in and pulled poor Backlund's legs out from under him, leaving him to hang from the powerful thighs of the Fabulous Moolah. Moolah added to his troubles by digging her nails into Backlund's eyes and grabbing handfuls of hair. Toni simply stood holding his legs in the air and swinging his body back and forth. Backlund could not take the punishment handed out by the girls and soon cried out "I give! I give." Toni and Moolah dropped their foe and embraced in the center of the ring as their arms were raised in victory. Vicky came over to Backlund to try to help him, but seeing this, the champs grabbed Vicky's body and dumped her on top of Backlund. They then jumped up onto Vicky's back and raised their arms once again as they crushed their beaten foes beneath their wrestling boots. Toni turned to Moolah and with a look of mastery, said, "I wonder how many other men we could beat in the WWF?"