Grit & Glitter

Living Legends is a series where Harley and Em deep dive into the careers of overlooked women in wrestling to explain why they deserve their flowers.  This time: featuring special guest Mayydayy.

From the Detroit indies through pink cages, Made In Sin, wrestling in Japan and China, being renamed after a crayon, holding Global Force gold, her career nearly ending abruptly, podcasting about horror movies, and teaming with Marti Belle as The Hex to become the first NWA women's tag champions in 37 years, this is the life and career of "AK-47" Allysin Kay!

WATCH LIST

Allysin Kay vs. MsChif

ROH Wrestling (11/17/2012)

Allysin Kay vs. Mia Yim

WWE Mae Young Classic (9/19/2018)

Miyu Yamashita vs. Allysin Kay for the Shine Championship

TJPW Girls Shining, I Will Fly To Sapporo! (5/6/2019)

Allysin Kay vs. Thunder Rosa for the NWA Women’s World Championship

NWA Hard Times (1/24/2020)

Pretty Empowered vs. The Hex in a street fight for the NWA World Women’s Tag Team Championship

NWA 74 (8/28/2022)

In the second installment of G&G TV Club, Harley and Em are joined by returning guest Jenny Catlin to break down the 1995 Boy Meets World episode "The Thrilla' In Philla"!

They discuss straight white boy representation in the '90s, the legend of Big Van Vader, amateur wrestling team policies and procedures, and the Topanga of it all.  Featuring Cory "The Cory" Matthews, Rilo Kiley, confettiweight divisions, Robert Goulet, and a young Adam Scott.  You are you and we are we.

In the 12th installment of our primers series, Pro Wrestling Illustrated pundit Kristen Ashly returns to the show to choose four matches to get to know her and make Em and Laz watch them.

Her watch list for this episode:

Sasha Banks vs. Bayley for the NXT Women’s Championship

NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn (8/22/15)

Saya Kamatani vs. Tam Nakano for the World Of Stardom Championship & Tam’s career

Stardom All-Star Grand Queendom (4/27/25)

Toni Storm vs. Mariah May for the AEW Women’s World Championship in a Hollywood ending

AEW Revolution (3/9/25)

Utami Hayashishita vs. Syuri for the World Of Stardom Championship

Stardom Tokyo Dream Cinderella (6/12/21)

Grit & Glitter turns 7 years old!  In celebration, the Glitterati swap prompts and task each other to come up with their own top 7 lists on topics including spooky women, gimmick names, memorable hairstyles, TNA changes, wrestler re-brands, entrance theme pitches, and softcore women.

Harley is joined by Meg and their partner Jim (of Clwb Reslo fame) to discuss them being live in Wembley for AEW All In!

They discuss Willow Nightingale vs. Mercedes Moné in the likely 2026 match of the year, questions around the future of the tag division, the return of Britt Baker, the surprising shallowness of the AEW women's division at the moment, and the continued ratio of five times as many men as women competing on the show.

(Originally aired June 7, 2022.)

Living Legends is a series where Harley and Em deep dive into the careers of active wrestlers to explain why they should be getting their flowers now.

From 2000 in New England, to Shimmer, Shine, and Stardom, back and forth from WWE to AEW to WWE to AEW, to setting (and breaking) the record for longest women’s wrestling match in history, this is the life and career of "The Latina Sensation" Mercedes Martinez!

WATCH LIST

Mercedes Martinez vs. Sumie Sakai

date & promotion unknown

Mercedes Martinez vs. Sara Del Rey

Shimmer Volume 1 (11/6/2005)

Mercedes Martinez vs. Victoria

WWE Heat, 6/12/2006

Maria Toro vs. Tyler Texas

Wrestlicious Takedown (4/14/2010)

Mercedes Martinez vs. Meiko Satomura

WWE Mae Young Classic (10/3/2018)

Mercedes Martinez vs. Kylie Rae in a no ropes submission match for the Phoenix Of Rise Championship

Rise Legendary (3/29/2019)

Retribution promo

WWE Raw (9/14/2020)

Mercedes Martinez vs. Deonna Purrazzo for the ROH Women’s Championship

AEW Dynamite (5/4/2022)

In the 11th installment of our "Glitterati primers" series, former Glitterati advice columnist Ziggy Haim returns to the show to choose four matches to get to know her and make Em, Harley, and Mikey Montgomery watch them.

Her watch list for this episode:

Edith Surreal vs. Ziggy Haim – mask vs. hair

Enjoy Night Moves (10/8/21)

Pentagon DARK vs. Reklusa

Lucha Underground S4E18 – “Spiders And Skeletons” (10/10/18)

Asuka vs. Dana Brooke vs. Shayna Baszler vs. Carmella vs. Nia Jax vs. Lacey Evans in a ladder match for the WWE Raw Women’s Championship

WWE Money In The Bank (5/10/20)

Combat Toyoda vs. Megumi Kudo in a no ropes barbed wire current blast deathmatch for the FMW Independent Women’s Championship & WWA Women’s Championship

FMW Fighting Creation (5/5/96)

In the first installment of G&G TV Club, Harley and Lindsay are joined by guest Jenny Catlin to break down the 1994 Family Matters episode "Psycho Twins"!

They discuss the legacy of Urkel, how Family Matters became the first TGIF show to do a wrestling episode, and why the Bushwhackers got the gig.  Featuring WWF Magazine, sexy nurses, melatonin drinks, broken eggs, ref bumps, and Luke and Butch saying ACAB.

(Originally exclusive to Patreon on October 23, 2021.)

Women's Wrestling Entertainment is a Patreon-exclusive series where the Glitterati trace the history of women in WWE, WCW, and ECW in chronological order.

On this fourth episode, Harley and Em covered spring to fall 1985 in the WWF including the Fabulous Moolah driving Mad Maxine out of the WWF, the WWF losing interest in the women's division once Cyndi Lauper wasn't involved, Penny Mitchell becoming the Spider Lady, and Moolah and Vince McMahon publicly humiliating Wendi Richter and screwing her out of her title, 12 years before he would do the same to Bret Hart.

Women Of Wrestling?  WOW Superheroes?  Call it what you want, it's draft day!

Lindsay, Em, and Laz compete to draft their rosters, drawing wrestlers in categories like Poster Girls, Indie Cred, and Crossover with each of them trying to build the strongest all-around roster.

Who will be their #1 draft picks?  Which wrestlers will be the most coveted?  Which stars will go unclaimed?  And who are the wild card fantasy signees?