50 Ups & 50 Downs For WWE's Decade: The 2010s
13. Evolution
A glowing, magnificent credit to every single woman past and present to ever enter an industry systematically set up against them, Evolution was a f*cking ripper of a pay-per-view from start to finish.
It was just all so so good. Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair knocked out a contemporary classic right as 'The Man' character was smashing ceilings, Ronda Rousey and Nikki Bella massively over-delivered in their high-pressure main event, Shayna Baszler, Kairi Sane, Toni Storm and Io Shirai flexed their NXT/Mae Young Classic pedigree whilst a nothing six-woman pitting The Boss & Hug Connection and Natalya against The Riott Squad somehow absolutely banged.
It was so fabulously rich in irony - in the ungainly era of supersized shows and needless churn, the performers once considered only worthy of the p*ss breaks didn't give viewers the opportunity to take one. A well-structured and perfectly paced card was greeted accordingly by one of the hottest crowds of the decade, capturing the sort of multi-sensory overload WWE haven't really managed to generate since the tail-end of the Attitude Era.