Although hairpulling is not officially allowed in women’s wrestling (it is in fact illegal), with those thick and luscious manes so handy, few wrestling women resist the temptation to grab a fistful. Some of the best professional female wrestlers pull hair all the time. They use it to control their opponents, and some of them are quite adept at hiding it all from the referee. Hair pulling is what led to the now famous and often quoted call: “hair ref!”, as the victim complains to the official about her predicament.

There is no set way to pull hair. For most women wrestlers it comes natural in just about any position. Most often, hair is pulled to control the victim, to make her stand up (it is pretty darn efficient at that) but also to perform more intricate moves like the hair mare and the hair toss (see one of the gifs below).

Possible escapes: Hair pulling is one of the few moves which are inescapable in women’s professional wrestling. If you climb into the ring with a female wrestler, you will probably have your hair pulled at one point or another. In other ladies wrestling genres, hair pulling leads to automatic disqualification.

Rating: Much more efficient than such a simple move should be. If someone is pulling you up by the hair, you will scramble and stand, regardless of how banged up you are.

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