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“I was the first girl Ed ‘Strangler’ Lewis saw wrestle, and he told me, ‘You know Mae, I didn’t ever want to see a girl wrestling because women need to be in the kitchen,not in the ring.’ But then he said ‘If there ever was a woman who was born to be a wrestler, you’re it!’ But everybody hated me. Fans used to throw things at me. I was wrestling in Houston,Texas, against Mildred Burke, and I hit her and busted her eye open, and,boy, the people started coming in the ring after me. This guy cold-cocked me and hit me, and knocked my front tooth out. Now I always loved my smile, so I went crazy and beat the hell out of two guys and they put me in jail. ” - Mae Young, WWE Magazine interview
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