Female wrestler Amanda Storm, 40, would love to just take your head off. Read the full description.
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- Kicking Ass and Changing Names
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- Shea Shackelford
After 10 years chasing bright lights and bruises from coast to coast, Amanda Storm figured out a few things about professional wrestling and herself. Now 40, wrestling mostly in the state of Maine, she’s doing things her own way.
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Piece Description
After 10 years chasing bright lights and bruises from coast to coast, Amanda Storm figured out a few things about professional wrestling and herself. Now 40, wrestling mostly in the state of Maine, she’s doing things her own way.
Sarah Elzas
Posted on January 11, 2005 at 07:15 AM | Permalink
Review of Kicking Ass and Changing Names
Amanda is a woman wrestler in Maine, the "queen of pain" but she is also known as Alexandra Wykoff to her husband and to her day job as a truck driver. We hear sounds from the ring--lots of screaming and throws--and we hear Alexandra in her truck. The piece is a pretty straight-forward profile. Towards the end it delves a little into the position of women wrestlers, how they often play up their sexuality. Amanda says that a few years ago she decided to not do so much of the "sex stuff". This piece could work as a profile, dropped in anywhere, or maybe in a segment looking at women in traditionally male-dominated jobs.