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Adversaries: Monica Seles and Steffi Graf
Monica Seles (1973-present) and Steffi Graf (1969-present) held one of the most famous rivalries in tennis history. They battled for the No. 1 rankin…
1 year, 7 months ago
Adversaries: Roxanne Shanté
Season 5 Episode 539
Roxanne Shanté (1969-present) ignited The Roxanne Wars, a series of hip hop rivalries during the mid 1980s, that created the most answered records in…
1 year, 7 months ago
Adversaries: Lee Radziwell
Season 5 Episode 538
Lee Radziwill (1933-2019) was an American socialite, public relations executive, and interior designer. She was the younger sister of former First La…
1 year, 7 months ago
Adversaries: Louella Parsons
Season 5 Episode 537
Louella Parsons (1881-1972) was an American gossip columnist and screenwriter, whose work boasted an audience of 20 million across many newspapers. S…
1 year, 7 months ago
Adversaries: Zelia Nuttall
Season 5 Episode 536
Zelia Nuttall (1857-1933) was a Mexican-American archaeologist. She was a single mother who decoded a number of Mesoamerican texts and artifacts, inc…
1 year, 7 months ago
Adversaries: Mama G
Season 5 Episode 535
Dr. Germon “Mama G” Miller-Bey (c.1953-present) is the “Grand Matriarch” of African martial arts, or sciences, as she prefers to call it. Rooted in h…
1 year, 7 months ago
Adversaries: Mabel Fairbanks
Mabel Fairbanks (1915-2001) was an American figure skater and coach. A Black and Seminole woman, she was often relegated to the shadows and dedicated…
1 year, 7 months ago
Adversaries: Fabulous Moolah
Season 5 Episode 534
Fabulous Moolah (1923-2007) was a pioneering American pro wrestler, promoter and trainer. She held different versions of the women’s championship tit…
1 year, 7 months ago
Adversaries: Mary Mcarthur v. Lillian Hellman
Season 5 Episode 533
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), a playwright and novelist who sued writer and critic Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) after Mary McCarthy called her "a dishone…
1 year, 7 months ago
Adversaries: Kumander Liwayway
Season 5 Episode 532
Remedios Guinto Gomez-Paraiso, known primarily as Kumander Liwayway, (1919 - 2014) was a beauty queen-who became a -military commander during the Huk…
1 year, 7 months ago