10 Legendary Wrestling Records That Should Never Be Broken
4. The Fabulous Moolah's Dominance
The Fabulous Moolah is regularly paraded as one of the most important women in wrestling history, but she’s a divisive figure away from WWE’s company rhetoric. Never the best wrestler in the world, Moolah had a stranglehold on women’s wrestling from the 1950s onwards, and while the Attitude Era is often rightly held-up as a dark period for wreslting’s females, Moolah’s era wasn’t much better.
That being said, no woman has ever held the gold for as long as Moolah. She was Women’s champion from September 1956 all the way through to July 1984, when she was defeated by Wendi Richter. All in all, Moolah held the gold for 10,170 days: a shade under 28 years.
If that isn’t staggering enough, Moolah’s reign lasted longer than Sasha Banks (24 years old) and Bayley (27) have been alive. There has been at least one women’s belt in circulation for 60 years, and taking Moolah’s three other reigns into account, the belt has been around her waist for roughly 49% of that time.
Moolah’s reigns obviously came at a time when women’s wrestling was nowhere near as deep and developed as it is today, but that’s still a ridiculous number. Those complaints about WWE hotshotting the Raw Women’s Title between Charlotte and Sasha suddenly lose all meaning when recalling Moolah’s dominance, and allowing one woman to run ragged over the division for even a fraction of this time would mean the division’s death in 2018.