10 Early Predictions For The 2019 WWE Hall Of Fame Class
6. Michelle McCool
In recent years, in an attempt to reinforce the commitment to the Women's Evolution, Vince has opted to usher the Divas of yesteryear into the Hall of Fame - even though the central premise of the Women's Evolution seeks to move away from the Divas of yesteryear and their marginalised, regressive, sexuality-driven role on WWE television. From Ivory to Beth Phoenix - commendable by the standards of the time - it translates as WWE picking names out of a hat.
In this case, the hat is a Stetson.
This results in meaningless platitudes like "Diva X truly broke new ground!" and "Diva X truly paved the way for the women that followed her!", which is understandable. WWE is hardly going to cite Michelle McCool's Extreme Makeover Women's Title loss to Beth Phoenix as specific evidence of her legendary credentials. But, and here's that faint-praise refrain again, McCool was better than most of her rotten peers. At Night Of Champions 2009, she bested Melina in one of the scene's better efforts, in which the women sought to wrestle a match as dramatic and violent as their male counterparts, resulting in barricade DDTs and a brutal spot in which McCool knocked a split-legged Melina from the apron to the floor with a baseball slide...
...actions for which they were scolded by road agents. They were allegedly too good "for girls".
Platitudes it is.
Michelle McCool was one of the more passable Divas, and she married The Undertaker - which is more than Manami Toyota ever did.