[JayB]

The other day, I began to trace the evolution of my interest in this whole genre.  I would be interested in others as well.

I think the first time I really became aware of female fights was watching the old Popeye cartoon where Olive Oil tangled with the blonde fitness girl.  Titled Never Kick a Woman ",  Popeye and Olive Oil are watching a sexy blonde woman shadow boxing thru a store window.  Popeye wants Olive Oil to learn to box, so they go in.  The sexy blonde has eyes for Popeye and eventually Olive Oil challenges the fit blonde to a boxing match.  The blonde roughs up Olive Oil and tuns her attention to the sailor man again.  Like her boyfriend does when in trouble, she gulps down spinach and proceeds to demolish the blonde.  I'm sure everyone here is familiar with clip.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN4l1kInmRs

My first time that I remember seeing a female fight in a movie was in a movie titled, "The Key to The City." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq7VL591k0I&pp=ygUeQSBLZXkgdG8gdGhlIENpdHkgIENsYXJrIENhYmxl)  It starred Clark Cable, Loretta Young, Raymond Burr, and Marilyn Maxwell.  Clark Gable and Loretta Young were mayors in San Francisco for a mayor's conference.  Gable's character is a rough and tumble sort of guy where the Young's character is a sophisticated, Ivy League type.  Raymond Burr is Gable's rival and is looking to find dirt on Gable.  Maxwell is a blonde dancer, who would likely be portrayed as a stripper if the movie were made today.   The Burr character has some dirt on Gable (compromising picture with the blonde) and he wants to get it to the papers.  The two mayors have become an item and Gable wants to marry her.  Near the end of the movie, Gable and Burr are engaged in a knock down drag out fight.  During the fight, the Burr character passes the picture on to Maxwell to pass it on to the press.  The Young character stands in the doorway and stops the blonde from leaving.  Maxwell slaps the brunette to get her out of the way.  Young warns her not to do that again.  Maxwell tells her, "Why I would tear you apart."  She then goes to slap her again but the brunette blocks it and then proceeds to  beat the blonde about the room.  It was the proper girl who took the tough girl apart.  Needless to say that movie became one I would watch again. 

Another movie/TV show girl fight was from the Mike Hammer series (Darin McGavin).  In this show another blonde v. brunette fight takes place.  In this episode,  the brunette was the villian.  In the fight scene, she is holding a gun on the blonde and McGavin.  The blonde jumps the brunette, takes the gun away and forces her into the corner.  The action cuts a way from the women and focus on McGavin and the bad guy fighting.  When they cut back to the women, the expectation is that the blonde will have subdued the evil brunette but what we see is the brunette in control.  She lands a right and a left that backs up the blonde.  The blonde tries to land a right of her own only to be blocked by the brunette who lands another right to the blonde's face.  The shot cuts away to McGavin who has quickly subdues his foe and we see a smile on his face watching to two women fight.  He then steps in to separate the women but the blonde objects and wants to finish off the bad girl.  McGavin relents.  The brunette tries to land a right but this time the blonde blocks her shot and floors the brunette with a right.  This fight stuck with me because it really had some back and forth action, and made me want to see more of this . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFuiZDT1Q-Q&list=FLkZIAxdmLA8IWZVTvRCnQog

In the mid 60's there was a TV show called "Honey West."  It starred Anne Francis and I recall she was involved in a number of fights.  I don't really remember any in particular but just remember she mixed it up a lot.  It was also around this time that I became acquainted with women's wrestling and I fell in love with a wrestler named Penny Banner.  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/classic-wrestling-match-penny-banner-vs-toni-rose-in-1972--507499451754602891/

When I was teenager, I went to a drive in movie with my friend and his parents.  The feature was the "Mini Skirt Mob" starring Diane McBain and Sherry Jackson.  McBain and Jackson get it on several times but near the end there is a very one-sided fight between McBain and Jackson, with blonde knocking the brunette out.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQkJIf58ha8  Aside from the one-sided beating.  I remember my friend's mom, a brunette, stating in disgust at the result,  that there wasn't blonde born that could beat a brunette.  It was at that point that I realized the blonde v. brunette thing was real.

 It has stuck with me since and still gets me going to watch those kinds of fights.  In fact, my wife's first fight was a blonde v brunette contest.  I chronicled it in one of my very first stories I ever posted here.  While the story deviates a bit from the fight, it pretty closes resembles the action.  https://www.freecatfights.com/forums/index.php?topic=71485.msg525404#msg525404

Well, anyway that was my journey.  Would love to hear other's.

[F4UCORSAIR]

  I caught the bug when I saw an ad in my dads porn mags ( that he thought he hid ). The ad stated "fighting girls" or something like that. I ordered the magazine, sent cash thru the mail, and actually received the magazines ( more honest times ? ).
 The humor in the whole thing was when the mail came my mom opened it  without looking at the name I guess ( I never got mail as a 12 yr old kid) . At some point during the day she says "oh by the way, I think this is for you", handing me the envelope with the magazine inside. I was mortified to say the least,seeing it was opened. Mom had this shit eating grin on her face that I remember until this day. That was all she said, no lecture, no warnings that I could go blind.
 My mom was strict ( with respect and manners especially) but very cool as far as sex was concerned. Mom is still  kickin at 100 yrs old. She doesn't remember who I am anymore , but I remember her as a great mom.   

[sinclairfan]

Mine was watching a smart, pretty girl on our cul de sac going at it toe to toe with the neighborhood bad girl after a cheap shot at a Saturday afternoon coed touch football game.  It later came out they were dating the same boy.

P.S. on the "Key to the City" fight, about when in the link is the fight?

[JayB]

At the 1:36 mark.

[JT Edson]

This is all wonderful stuff. Thank you for sharing it and your "Journey " with us.

[Commentator Bob!]

My first exposure to a "catfight" was as a 13 year old on the Beverly Hillbillies!

Season Six, Episode 22 - 'Rasslin Clampetts" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOK6nIjQ0C8&list=PLUA9kG1DciUxRvbTCTuW83ghFA8il51t4&index=190

The Clampetts are watching wrestling on TV and it's a female match between a very cut little girl, "Rebecca of Donny Brook Farm" and "The Boston Strong Girl." It was a one sided beat down with poor little Rebecca getting destroyed. 

It was so hot that I had to go to the bathroom and "relieve myself." Ha  ha ha... 

They should do an adult remake of that fight!   

[locked]

Damn, I forgot all about that Popeye episode but  that one totally fucked me up as a little kid in a big way ! It's hard ( no pun intended  ) to say if that was my first time but it was about that same age the female combat interest - or curse - was triggered and established itself in me with no hope to escape it.  That Popeye one hooked me in for sure but female boxing / fist fights never reached me like wrestling did. But after that as a little kid,  I always was hoping for the female fight in the cowboy shows I watched.

I'll have to write up a history of my own and contribute to this thread soon .  Thanks for the reminder of the Popeye episode 

[colt 45]

Mine was Sports Review wrestling and the apartment house matches. Very strict homelife on sex etc. Only way I could even see pictures of women in a bikini or underwear. The rest is history.  Evan wrote some stories with a lady who was my muse as it were

[Bear]

  I caught the bug when I saw an ad in my dads porn mags ( that he thought he hid ). The ad stated "fighting girls" or something like that. I ordered the magazine, sent cash thru the mail, and actually received the magazines ( more honest times ? ).
 The humor in the whole thing was when the mail came my mom opened it  without looking at the name I guess ( I never got mail as a 12 yr old kid) . At some point during the day she says "oh by the way, I think this is for you", handing me the envelope with the magazine inside. I was mortified to say the least,seeing it was opened. Mom had this shit eating grin on her face that I remember until this day. That was all she said, no lecture, no warnings that I could go blind.
 My mom was strict ( with respect and manners especially) but very cool as far as sex was concerned. Mom is still  kickin at 100 yrs old. She doesn't remember who I am anymore , but I remember her as a great mom.

This is so amusing that I'm going to start a new thread on "Being Outed." 

[npom]

I first remember being turned on by women wrestling when I was about 11. A woman’s match was on TV.  Moolah was tossing a blonde around the ring like ragdoll. I remember when she pinned her I was really turned on.

A few months after that I saw my best friend’s mom playfully wrestle with one of her friends. Her friend pinned her pretty easily and I thought it was so hot. I really became obsessed fantasizing about my friend’s mom wrestling other women. Of course she would always lose.

This was around the time Sports Review Wrestling started to feature the apartment house wrestling matches. There was a candy store on the corner that carried them. They would come the first Tuesday of the month and that was always my first stop after school in that day.

I eventually sent away for the magazines Battling Girls, Big & Busty Brawlers, Fighting Hellcats, Claws, etc. Got my first VHS tape from Triumph Studios when I was about 25. I think it was called “Tight Moves”. There were two matches, one with Tantala where she gives a beating to a younger girl, the other one was Patty Sanchez dominating a blonde.

I can go on and on but that is the short version.

[Popadoc45]

Don't remember exactly when it started, but it's been most of my 56 years. I do remember feeling embarrassed and my heart pounding when women's wrestling would come on TV and other people were around. My friends would laugh as if they were watching clowns, but for me it was a major turn on. I have been trying to figure out why it affects me that all of my life.

[Bear]

Don't remember exactly when it started, but it's been most of my 56 years. I do remember feeling embarrassed and my heart pounding when women's wrestling would come on TV and other people were around. My friends would laugh as if they were watching clowns, but for me it was a major turn on. I have been trying to figure out why it affects me that all of my life.

Not to play the psychiatrist here, but I searched for an answer to the same question for years.  There are several theories that I've read over the years that attempt to explain why we are drawn to this genre.  Some very complex; some very simple.  I usually opt for simple.  What I have observed to be a consistent trait of most, if not all of us is the presence of a strong woman figure in our backgrounds.  One who  had a significant impact on us at an early age -- most often it's Mom, but perhaps an aunt, or an older sister.  That did it for me, and I found peace.  If that resonates with you, good.  If not, you'll keep looking. 

[Popadoc45]

Well, my mom did have to take over the household after my dad became sick with MS and I did have a sister that was 11 years older than me. I witnessed a very short fight between the two of them and a fight my sister was in outside our home. Maybe that has something to do with it as I suspected and tried to deny over the years.

[Evil T girl]

Mine  when i was at school and saw 2 girls fight and bully got beat it made me feel good and i was a boy at time, 20 years later i am now trans girl and still enjoy girly fights

[locked]

OK, here’s  are my milestones into female fighting ; 

  > My very first female fight that was the Popeye episode that the original poster brought up. One thing I remember for sure about it was how attracted I was to the blonds muscular physique. I've been attracted to that ever since  Many, many, many years after this Popeye cartoon I realized God was real when discovering Premier Productions which featured female bodybuilders and fitness women wrestling.
 

> The second and major thing was seeing my first female pro wrestling match on TV which wasn't that long after the Popeye cartoon. Something really special about this was the ‘grapevine test of strength’ the ladies engaged in which burned itself into my head.  Female wrestling and a leg fetish became hopelessly ingrained in me forever after seeing this.


> Saw a real life after school girl fight in 7th grade. A small group of the girl friends gathered to watch while me and two others were the only boys … supposedly more guys weren’t interested because they agreed to no punching. Neither girl knew anything about fighting and and it turned out to be a roll around with hair pulling and cursing. I  wasn't a fan of females boxing so this ‘wrestling fight‘ was fine by me.


> Years later in high school a friend alerted me about a couple girls planning to fight after school and I couldn’t believe who they were.  They weren't a couple trashy, sleazy girls you’d expect but a couple real ‘sophisticated’ girls ; each were honor students and leaders of various school activity groups, etc. and both very pretty.   I couldn’t imagine those two willing to fight as it was so unlike them and damn if I wasn’t right …. they called it off before the end of the day.   The anticipation I had that afternoon was crazy … I had this show-down between the two going through my head ( both heads  ) all day long. At first I was disappointed but then glad they decided not to fight as they were friends and would hate to see their friendship ruined for my degenerate entertainment.


> After high school I started looking for female wrestling stuff in the back of wrestling magazines where you’d mail someone a dollar for price lists.   I'll always remember the samples Judell Dulong sent me which were 3 X 5 prints of some of their prettiest girls like Cindy Brookes and Liz Meles with a hand written note from Judell introducing herself as a women who ‘ ...really does wrestle ...‘  The color prints of the girls were  in a whole different league from the lousy black and white examples sent out by everyone else.  This was also before VHS ... so reel to reel movies were all there was if you wanted to see more than still pictures.  Now look at how spoiled we are !


> Last thing that brought it all together was discovering Barb's board ,  ' The Combative Women's Website'.  Ever since no site has ever came close that place but unfortunately it ended when  many nasty arguments between posters erupted on a daily basis.  Barb became disgusted with that  and finally pulled the plug.