10 Biggest Moments In WWE Women’s Wrestling History
4. Hard Reset
WWE were deeply flawed in their belief that having groups of three fighting and endless rotation of heatless battles would somehow fix the deep-rooted issued in their Women's division, but the July 13th debut of Charlotte, Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks on Monday Night Raw was a legitimately surreal paradigm shift.
Stephanie McMahon had to take credit for their introduction because of course she did, but the instant things became physical, the NXT alumni were immediately earmarked as the ones to watch.
In the segment alone, their shining moments dwarfed the spots of those currently in the spotlight. Nikki Bella threw lame punches whilst sister Brie unleashed a Thesz Press Steve Austin could probably have topped six seconds after neck surgery. Banks responded with fierce running knees on every woman seeking solace in corners, not once looking back to survey her damage. Lynch fired back with wicked springboard strikes, whilst Charlotte caught Alicia Fox's flailing axe kick and locked her in a Figure Eight.
The hold triggered a memorable visual in which the three starlets trapped the 'Team Bella' bullies in their trademark submission holds. Barely a minute into their main roster careers, they'd literally and figuratively had the division in their clutches.