Question about the Wendi Richter screwjob

[Tyfo]

Ok, it's well documented that Wendi Richter was screwed out of the Womens Championship and out of the WWF by Vince, by Moolah, the referee, and whoever else. Apparently because she wasn't happy with what she was being paid. And from what I understand she received NO royalties from merch or any of the other things she was doing, so she was probably right in her argument.

My question is, I've seen the Spider Lady match several times and the obvious screwjob ending. But, why after the match does Richter apparently keep working. She pulls the mask of Moolah, which obviously they wanted people to know it was Moolah anyway, and she keeps throwing what appear to be worked shots. Did she not think the match was over or what?

Even once they award Moolah the belt, she kind of has a tug of war with her over it, and it still appears shes working.

She had to have known what had happened, so why was she apparently still working after the fact? As we saw with Bret Hart, he spit on Vince, and destroyed monitors and stuff. So what was Richter doing?

[Joe Neglia]

The Richter match has never made sense as a work or a shoot. For her, to this day, to still claim she didn't realize it was Moolah under the mask - when it so obviously was and when she'd already worked the "real" Spider-Lady several times, is incomprehensible on a shoot level. Obviously something is going on - the way Moolah no-sells her after-match shots, etc. - but I to this day still don't think we have the whole story of what went down.

[WWHHHD]

I'm with Madison on this one. Just nothing fits into place at all in either category. At least they don't have a documentary on this where the guy just wines the whole time.

[Tyfo]

Aug 2, 2008 2:29:10 GMT -5 Joe Neglia said:

The Richter match has never made sense as a work or a shoot. For her, to this day, to still claim she didn't realize it was Moolah under the mask - when it so obviously was and when she'd already worked the "real" Spider-Lady several times, is incomprehensible on a shoot level. Obviously something is going on - the way Moolah no-sells her after-match shots, etc. - but I to this day still don't think we have the whole story of what went down.

In a shoot I watched with Richter, she said she knew when she got to the ring that Moolah was under the mask. She said that when she got to the building that Moolah was backstage, as well as the woman who had been playing Spider Lady, and she said Moolah was never backstage for a show she wasn't booked on. Plus there was a size difference between Moolah and the regular Spider Lady. And just the way she was working, she knew it was Moolah.