10 Things Deleted From WWE History

10. The First Female Referee

Ex-ROH wrestler Kennadi Brink recently adopted Jessika Carr as her WWE ring name and debuted as part of the Mae Young Classic, but she wasn't competing. Instead, she'd donned a black and white striped shirt and started working as WWE's "first ever" female referee, backed by some heavy promotion from the company.

Not to take anything away from Carr, but her appointment isn't the groundbreaking world-first it has been marketed as. Jessika isn't the first women to ever work as a full-time WWE referee, but the second, as Rita Chatterton was originally appointed to fill the role in the 1980s.

Chatterton's run with the company ended in acrimony. On an April 1992 episode of Geraldo Rivera's Now It Can Be Told news show, Rita alleged that Vince McMahon made sexual advances on her in the back of a limousine. Chatterton claims he then forced himself upon her when she refused, leading to her departure from the company.

The McMahons were incensed by the allegations, and later sued Chatterton, Rivera, and the company behind his show for $1 million. They eventually dropped the lawsuit, so while it may seem disingenuous to call Jessika Carr the "first-ever women's referee," WWE's reasoning is understandable.