8 Times Stephanie McMahon Actively Damaged Women In WWE

8. Paper Champion

Relaunched in 1998, the WWE Women's Championship endured a bumpy ride during a Russo-riffic 1999, but an injection of action from Ivory, Jacqueline and Tori suggested the company were trying at very least level the scales between science and smut.

The trifecta above were still expected to engage in the titillation of the time, but attempted to back up their bluster in believable battles. Stephanie McMahon did neither of either.

Winning the title as the spoilt brat accomplice of Triple H's D-Generation-X goon squad in 2000, she dragged it around as little more than an ostentatious piece of jewellery for months on end. Worse still was the company's broad indifference to her ownership of it. 30-day rules were waived and a division virtually dissolved all over again.

A summer switch with Lita was a fine payoff to a wretched reign, but it was literally the least she could do. By then entrenched in a gripping love triangle storyline with Kurt Angle and Triple H, it was a charitable gesture to give some far superior talents an opportunity to do something - anything - with it.