Lady wrestlers wear all sorts of footwear into the ring these days. From stilettos to construction boots and regular street-shoes just about everything is fair game in the ring. Some of the girls wrestle bare-footed. The only proper footwear a true female wrestler should ever consider for the ring though is a hot pair of proper wrestling boots. These boots offer numerous esthetic as well as practical advantages. Wrestling while bare-footed isn’t exactly the best idea for a simple reason: even if the opponent does not bear malicious intent and she isn’t willingly attacking the area left so invitingly unprotected by our wrestler, the risk for injury is great. Feet may be stepped on, stomped on, kicked and bruised in quite a number of ways. Stilettos and other high-heeled footwear should never even be the matter of discussion. They’re not for the ring as they’re so unsafe it’s scary. Wearing something like that to a professional women’s wrestling match is like cruising for a massive ankle injury.

Sports shoes are of course a huge step up from bare feet and pumps, but unless they feature a high top, they too fail to provide any sort of protection for the ankles, which – due to the rough and tumble nature of the sport – are at an unusually high risk of injury. Nikki of the now defunct pindown girls used to wear sneakers to the ring, but hers were high-top ones, which thus did protect her ankles too. Proper wrestling boots are always at least mid-calf high, or they may even be slightly higher. The late Sherri Martel used to wear boots which covered her calves almost all the way up to her knees. Such proper wrestling boots always feature flat soles slightly raised at the heels for added support. The material of the soles is soft-ish rubber which offers great grip and protection against injury not only for the girl who wears them but for her opponent as well. Proper wrestling boots offer full protection for the ankles as well.

Now then, women may be rightfully concerned about the esthetics of wrestling boots. After all, they wouldn’t want to be prancing around in the same kind of boots the men wear. The good news is, there are proper wrestling boots made specifically for women out there, and the female wrestler who’s indeed serious about the sport will probably have her wrestling boots custom made anyway. Ladies wrestling boots can take up a variety of flashy/sparkly/feminine looks. Take the boots worn by the Magnificent Mimi through her LPWA career and beyond pictured in one of the attached pics above. I think you’ll agree that wrestling boots don’t come girlier than that… Most of the women in WOW wore custom made boots too, and each and every one of those boots was a testimony to the fact that not only do boots fulfill their practical purpose well on women, they do manage to look quite stunning and feminine too.