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Kicking Ass and Changing Names

From: Shea Shackelford
Length: 00:05:50

Female wrestler Amanda Storm, 40, would love to just take your head off. Read the full description.

Amandainlockerroom_small 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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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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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.

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