The girls don’t fit the preconceived profile of solidly built, rugged wrestlers. Eliza Muhammed, 16, barely hits five feet in height while Rahkeiyyah Loyal, 15, sports shoulder-length hair, large hoop earrings and long, artistically manicured fingernails.So popular has the sport become for women that all-female wrestling will make its Olympic debut in the 2004 Summer Games. Loyal and Muhammed, both juniors at Newark’s Central High School, are the only girls on the school’s 40-member wrestling team.What makes two young women enter into a sport that Central High’s head wrestling coach, James Waldron, 27, described as “a disgusting, smelly world?”
There are a few good spots. McCool hits Melina with a running knee into the fan barrier and gets a 2 count. McCool applies a leg submission on Melina. McCool counters and DDT’s Melina off the top of the fan barrier wall. Melina wraps her legs around the neck from the apron and throws McCool around. McCool catches Melina with a belly to belly suplex for a 2 count. Melina goes for a pin from the top rope but McCool reverses it with a roll up for the pinfall and the win.
