10 Best Matches From The First Five Years Of WWE’s Women’s Evolution

9. Bayley & Sasha Banks Vs Becky Lynch & Charlotte Flair (Raw, September 9th 2019)

Ronda Rousey Charlotte Flair
WWE.com

A bizarre inability to find the right place or time for all four of the fabled NXT/WWE Horsewomen to share the stage themselves was at long last addressed when Champions and Challengers met across brand divides on one of WWE's grandest stages.

It wasn't the WrestleMania four-way they should have had much earlier into their main roster runs, but Bayley, Sasha Banks, Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair lit up Madison Square Garden with a tag team match that did more for the women's divisions across both brands than just about anything since WrestleMania 35's historic main event.

Organically brought together as respective Champions and Challengers for the upcoming Night Of Champions pay-per-view, the match was a gift to those that had yearned for a greatest hits clash between the quartet.

Flair and Lynch as tentative partners offered sublime patter throughout, as did the revived relationship between recent returnee Sasha Banks and recently-turned Bayley before she'd completely reinvented her look and aesthetic to go with the switch. Fought at a breakneck pace desperately lacking from most Monday night matches, the finish was fiercely loyal to their past and near-futures.

Pinning Bayley clean with the Natural Selection as she'd done many times before, Charlotte left a marker on the SmackDown Women's Champion while the red hot Banks avoided defeat when she needed it least. Brighter days were ahead for the heels, but this match was a glorious exhibition of how all four quietly then confidently changed the game.

 
Posted On: 
Contributor
Contributor

Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation nearly 8 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 35 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz" Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast and its accompanying YouTube channel, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 62,000,000 total downloads. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has covered milestone events in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live. Follow him on X/Twitter - @MichaelHamflett