Women who defined wrestling in the 20th century
Women's revolution is a continuous process that started long ago in the 20th-century and is still going on now. Over the decades, we have seen many women who came and left their mark in the minds and hearts of the fans in a sport that is traditionally dominated by men.
These ladies have defined wrestling over the years and are the reason why wrestling is so popular today. When it comes to professional wrestling, female pioneers are few and far between.
In what is still very much a man’s world, female wrestling continues to tramp water, frantically trying to prove itself worthy of our attention and admiration. Let's talk about such women who changed the landscape of the women's roster during the different time period. We are starting with the 20th-century.
In this period, long before we got to see women main eventing shows or have their own pay-per-view, they were treated as just divas and were only used as eye-candy. No woman wrestler was ever taken seriously during that era.
Even then we have seen some wrestlers who broke the barrier and showed the world that if given the chance, they could very well take the center stage. The women mentioned in the list were 'women wrestlers' in the time of 'Divas'.
#4 Jacqueline Moore
Jacqueline Moore is an American professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager. She is best known for her time in WWE and WCW during the 90s. Jacqueline Moore has had a difficult wrestling career since the beginning. When she joined the wrestling school after meeting Skandor Akbar in a Gym, she was the only girl there, but that did not demotivate her and she then went on to triumphantly make her in-ring debut for World Class Championship Wrestling in the year 1988.
She had made it clear to everyone since the beginning of her career that she had joined the business for her love for the sport and not just for popularity. WWE had abandoned the WWE Women’s Championship belt in 1995 thanks to the infamous segment in WCW where Madusa tossed the championship into a trash can, but the popularity and talent of Moore forced the management to revive the belt for the feud between Jacqueline and Sable in 1998.
During her wrestling career, over the years, she was part of many different promotions like Smoking Mountain Wrestling, WWE, WCW, and TNA and has gained nothing less than respect and resolution from there.
Moore was inducted in the WWE Hall of Fame in 2016 and was also honored being "One Of The Greatest Female Superstars In The History Of WWE", which summarises the amount of success she got by living her dream.