10 Wrestlers Who Learned Important Lessons The Hard Way

10. Alundra Blayze Learns to Respect the Title

Titles in wrestling should be held sacred. Each belt is a symbol of the esteem its wearer is held in by the company, and should be treated with all due respect by its owner. Unfortunately, this lesson was lost on Alundra Blayze when she agreed to throw the then-WWF Women's Championship in the bin on an episode of Nitro.

This act completely killed the belt's credibility, undoing all the hard work that Alundra herself had put in to build the title back up through her series of matches against Bull Nakano. WWE responded in kind by blacklisting Blayze for 20 years, a ban that cost her many a royalty fee due to her mandated non-appearance in any of the company's multimedia ventures.

It's fitting that the WWE forgave Alundra in 2015, the same year that saw the emergence of WWE's current crop of female super-workers (Asuka & The Four Horsewomen). Blayze was a good worker, and her fall from grace coincided with WWE placing its faith in Divas ahead of wrestlers, a decision that did near-irreparable harm to the company's women's division. However, since Alundra's induction into the Hall of Fame, WWE's women's division has been on fire, with the female superstars main eventing PPVs and putting on MOTY candidates. Here's hoping none of them inadvertently torpedo their entire division like Blayze did.