20 WWE Women's Wrestlers You Totally Don't Remember
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WWE’s increased focus on women’s wrestling is one of the company’s biggest plus points in 2016. The Divas’ Revolution threw up its fair share of misses, but it largely succeeded in its goal of putting WWE’s talented females on a level playing field with their male counterparts.
While Sasha Banks, Bayley, and Charlotte hold fort on Raw, Becky Lynch leads an incredibly well-booked division on SmackDown. There’s still work to be done, but WWE’s women have finally found a positive direction to help erase years and years of misuse.
WWE, sadly, don’t have the best track record when it comes to female talent. They’ve always had a few talented women on their roster, but they were often subjected to endless streams of embarrassingly degrading angles, bra & panties matches, and bikini contests. Objectified to the extreme, the Divas of old were rarely given a chance to shine on wrestling talent alone, particularly throughout the Attitude Era.
Such questionable booking always leads to some performers getting lost in the shuffle before falling by the wayside. Trish Stratus, Sunny, and Chyna are among WWE’s most notable performers, but the company’s history is crammed with women who failed to leave a lasting impression through poor direction, bad angles, or otherwise.
Here are 20 WWE women’s wrestlers you totally don’t remember.
20. Muffy
Caryn Mower got her start in the wrestling business through UPW in 1999, and established herself as one of the Californian promotion’s leading female athletes. She impressed throughout her spell, and when WWE talent scouts visited that summer, they signed her to a developmental contract there and then.
She continued working for UPW throughout her apprenticeship, then debuted for WWE in early 2000. Reborn as Muffy, a borderline-psychotic fitness instructor, she was originally intended to work with Trish Stratus, but ended-up alongside Stephanie McMahon.
Muffy would regularly insult live audience members by calling them fat and telling them they needed to get in shape. The gimmick was shelved after just two appearances, however, and Muffy was sent back to UPW, before being released from her contract when WWE couldn’t come-up with another character for her.
Having retired from the ring, the former Muffy is now a professional stunt double and has worked on a number of notable films including Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, and Collateral. Wrestling might not have worked out as planned, but she’s certainly doing alright for herself.