Ranking Every WWE WrestleMania Mixed Tag Match From Worst To Best
Will Ronda Rousey's debut eclipse them all?
Gender segregation tends to be frowned upon these days, but one place where it is still strictly enforced is the WWE ring, where it is extremely rare to see men and women compete in the same match.
Extremely rare, but not completely unheard of. Every now and then, the company breaks from tradition and throws male and female performers together, in the hope of challenging our deeply entrenched attitudes around gender and sport (probably).
So far in the history of WrestleMania, this has happened on seven separate occasions, with an eighth to follow this Sunday when Ronda Rousey makes her WWE bow alongside Kurt Angle against the duo of Stephanie McMahon and Triple H.
On paper, this one has the potential to eclipse all that have come before it. It features two of the best male wrestlers of all-time, for one thing, while there is a palpable intrigue surrounding the in-ring debut of Rousey, one of the biggest UFC box-office draws in history. Stephanie isn't a wrestler, granted, but she is a brilliant heel, and more than happy to take a knock too.
If the four of them want to take that mantle, here's what they're up against...
7. Bam Bam Bigelow & Luna Vachon Vs. Doink The Clown & Dink The Clown (WrestleMania X)
At WrestleMania X, fans were treated to the rare sight of a mixed tag team match featuring only one woman, as Bam Bam Bigelow and Luna Vachon (competing in her first of two intergender bouts at the Show of Shows) squared off against clowns Doink and Dink.
The gimmick here, in case you didn't get it, is that Dink was a midget, which in the world of WWE presumably overrides any physical advantage that a male wrestler might ordinarily have over a female, making it OK for them to try and beat one another up.
That's fine, although most of our objections weren't about whether the teams were evenly matched so much as they were the fact that it was such an appallingly bad spectacle. Even by the standards of non-Matt Borne Doink, a patience-testing performer at the best of times, this was difficult to sit through.
At the least, however, the team of Bam Bam and Luna triumphed - which, in 1994, was probably about as close to an endorsement of gender equality as WWE ever came.