Within the late Nineteen Seventies, wrestlers Leilani Kai (actual title Patty Seymour) and Judy Martin got here collectively to kind a tag workforce referred to as the Glamour Women. The 2 met whereas coaching underneath the controversial Fabulous Moolah and, after going their separate methods for a number of years, they’d reunite and go on to carry the primary iteration of the WWF (or WWE) Girls’s Tag Crew Championship for greater than 900 days.
Although it is arduous to slender down a precise timeline, the Glamour Women have been awarded the WWF Girls’s Tag Crew Championship within the mid-Nineteen Eighties, most certainly with out a match ever happening. Their appearances within the firm have been intermittent till the primary version of Survivor Collection in 1987. There, accompanied by Jimmy Hart, Kai and Martin took half in a conventional five-on-five Survivor Collection match, teaming with Sherri Martell, Daybreak Marie, and Donna Christanello towards a workforce led by the Fabulous Moolah and that includes the Leaping Bomb Angels (Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki). This kickstarted the traditional tag workforce feud between the Glamour Women and the Angels.
The legacy of Leilani Kai & Judy Martin
Early the subsequent yr, the rival workforce defeated Kai and Martin for his or her title belts in a two-out-of-three falls match on the Royal Rumble. The groups would wrestle a number of extra instances, with the Glamour Women profitable the championship again after a match that passed off in All Japan Girls’s Professional-Wrestling that summer season. Some declare that the title change was not permitted by Vince McMahon and the state of affairs was orchestrated by The Fabulous Moolah to make Kai and Martin look dangerous. Regardless of the fact, the belts have been later vacated and shelved, and girls’s wrestling was not a precedence for McMahon.
Kai and Martin retired from wrestling within the early Nineties, although Kai maintains a more in-depth connection to the business than her former accomplice. She got here out of retirement a number of instances, together with her final match happening in 2015, and she or he nonetheless makes appearances at conventions and impartial reveals. Kai appeared onscreen at WWE Evolution in 2025, and together with that, she’s lively on social media and often discusses professional wrestling. Writing on Instagram, Kai has acknowledged the affect Martin had on her profession and her success as a singles performer with an emotional put up about her buddy. Whereas Martin is not as lively on-line, she does nonetheless make occasional conference appearances, often alongside Kai because the Glamour Women.
