10 Biggest Wrestling Scandals Of The 2010s

6. The Not-So-Fabulous Moolah

Four years after launching the 'Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal'  at WrestleMania XXX, WWE decided to let the ladies have a go. A new, female-only battle royal was announced for WrestleMania 34. There was just one problem - who it was named after.

WWE decided to call the new match the 'Fabulous Moolah Memorial Battle Royal'. On paper, it made sense to honour the longest-reigning women's champion in company history (who had died in 2007), but the announcement quickly unearthed a lot of dark history. 

Moolah, real name Mary Lillian Ellison, was not a nice woman. Her decades of dominance in women's wrestling came as a result of her and promoter Billy Wolfe holding other talents down. Former students at her school claimed that Moolah would take up to half of their earnings once they turned pro. The worst accusations were of a sexual nature. Moolah's students claimed that she would effectively pimp them out to promoters and other wrestlers, in exchange for securing her own power. 

Following backlash from fans and especially sponsors, WWE renamed the match the 'WrestleMania Women's Battle Royal'. There were just two of them, before the idea was quietly scrapped in 2019.