{"id":742966,"date":"2022-01-10T12:26:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/matilda-the-hun-glow-wrestler-dead-at-73\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T12:26:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:26:31","slug":"matilda-the-hun-glow-wrestler-dead-at-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/matilda-the-hun-glow-wrestler-dead-at-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Matilda The Hun, GLOW wrestler, dead at 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Matilda-The-Hun-GLOW-wrestler-dead-at-73.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"tp_St_emb youtube-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>We are saddened to learn that Deanna Booher, better known as &#8220;Matilda The Hun&#8221; and beloved by fans all over the world, passed away at the age of 73.https:\/\/t.co\/MbKkuDCUL3\u2014 WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1480200191512915972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 10 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Deanna Booher, better known by her professional wrestling name Matilda The Hun, has died at the age of 73.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our sincerest thoughts are with her family, friends and those affected by her passing,&#8221; WWE said in a statement after confirming her death.\n<\/p>\n<p>Comicbook.com also confirmed Booher&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Booher got her start in professional wrestling as the masked Queen Kong before she joined the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling promotion, better known as GLOW, in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>The grappler also starred in films such as <i>Spaceballs<\/i>, <i>Brainsmasher&#8230; A Love Story<\/i> and <i>Theodore Rex<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Television roles included appearances on <i>Married&#8230; With Children<\/i> and <i>Night Court<\/i>. Booher also starred in Aerosmith&#8217;s music video for &#8220;Love in an Elevator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are saddened to learn that Deanna Booher, better known as &#8220;Matilda The Hun&#8221; and beloved by fans all over the world, passed away at the age of 73.https:\/\/t.co\/MbKkuDCUL3\u2014 WWE (@WWE) January 9, 2022 Jan. 10 (UPI) &#8212; Deanna Booher, better known by her professional wrestling name Matilda The Hun, has died at the age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":742967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}