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The Mt. Rushmore of 1980s Women's Professional Wrestling - Princess Victoria

Posted: Feb 12th 2025 By: Facebook.com/WrestlingsGloryDays

As my personal monument dedicated to the best female wrestlers of the 1980s begins to take shape, let me thank our WGD readers for their comments and opinions. Many of you chimed in with your own choices after yesterday's recognition of Velvet McIntyre as the decade's best tag team and best technical female wrestler.

Today we turn our attention to my choice for the best babyface of the Glory Days era. Princess Victoria managed to distinguish herself as a fan favorite despite having a career that was many years shorter than that of her colleagues. Trained by the legendary Sandy Barr, Vicki Otis embraced her authentic heritage to create one of the most loved characters in professional wrestling history.

Princess Victoria is perhaps best known as one half of the WWF Women's Tag Team Champions with Velvet McIntyre. The two defended their title throughout the country and also competed in singles matches. It was in a mixed tag match in Bill Watts' Louisiana Mid-South territory where Princess Victoria unwittingly found herself at the center of a controversy.

Competing with Lanny Poffo against the team of Buddy Landel and Wendi Richter, Otis took a brutal forearm from Landel while the referee was distracted. The attack was executed so well that the local television affiliate was inundated with letters and calls from irate fans who demanded Mid-South Wrestling be removed from the air. Vicki Otis told me that Landel and Richter had so much heat they were once forced to take shelter beneath the ring to protect themselves from irate Louisiana fans.

That's a testimony to the popularity of Princess Victoria. Admit it. You wanted to replicate her Native American dance when she gave the bad girl her just receipt. You practiced the spin move she executed when being introduced. She was everything you could want in a hero.