10 Controversial Wrestling Matches You'll Never See Again
1. Mickie James, Kelly Kelly & Gail Kim Vs. Maryse, Rosa Mendes & Alicia Fox, (WWE Raw, July 13th 2009)
As with most forms of entertainment, wrestling has certain leeway during retrospective looks at past content thanks to certain aspects being "of the time".
This is a low bar of course - the best forms of entertainment attempt to read societal changes, act progressively and end up speaking truths about times yet to come. WWE, for as long as Vince McMahon has been at the helm, has existed about five years behind the outside world's curve.
This bikini match (billed as a "Summer Swim Suit Spectacular") took place in 2009, several years after the advent of a hardworking Knockouts division in TNA and the advent of Shimmer on the indies and a decade and a half removed from All Japan Women's Wrestling's Big Egg Wrestling Universe but interestingly six years before Stephanie McMahon invented women's wrestling in 2015.
WWE have attempted at points to lionise this era when it suits, and the women themselves have rightfully stood up for doing the best with the sh*t they were served, but the likes of Gail Kim, Mickie James and Maryse all traded more successfully as pro wrestlers the second they were permitted to by promoters. Dated at the time, this is archaic by post-Women's Revolution standards.